There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
I've learned that the most depressed people always seem to be the happiest
How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?
Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.
Snap out it' is abusive. It kicks people when they are down. It makes people in pain feel more hopeless, more powerless, more frustrated, more estranged from humanity. It says, 'I don't want to be bothered with your pain any longer.' For people not i...
He meant everything he said, when he said it. But this is his default. And it won out. Right now you're depressed about one thing. Before you were depressed about everything. These are good times for you." "I'm afraid of loving again. I'm afraid I've...
Few societies have come to grips with the new demography. We cling to the notion of retirement at sixty-five - a reasonable notion when those over sixty-five were a tiny percentage of the population but increasingly untenable as they approach 20 perc...
A large body of psychological research tells us something that many of us already know: girls and women place a lot of importance on their closest relationships. Our parents, relatives, romantic partners and spouses, children, and friends are central...
A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver with his license revoked. That would throw anybody for a loop, don't you think? But Beethoven didn't let it get to him. Sure, he must have...
I figured I had kept her from being too depressed after fucking--it's hard for a girl with any force in her and any brains to accept the whole thing of fucking, of being fucked without trying to turn it on its end, so that she does some fucking, or s...
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
It is in the nest of disappointment where depression lays its eggs.
The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.
Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?
I'm always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed.
Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.
My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.
What people never understand is that depression isn't about the outside; it's about the inside.
When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.
