If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future
There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.
Recent studies have shown that approximately 40% of authors are manic depressive. The rest of us just drink.
How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us!
I bet if you cut open my stomach, the black slug of depression would slide out.
You will stay with me. You will sleep here at my side and you will touch me. I am depressed but not when you stroke my chest.
I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.
He was sort of beautiful. In his own dark, depressing way, but still. She was going to miss that stupid fucking beautiful face.
She realized with a sort of depressed relief that she had no close friend to call, to tell them not to worry about her.
An essential aspect of self-support is to remind yourself that success is not measurable, but a matter of feeling.
In 1945 music had a serious purpose; to defy post war depression & revitalize the romantic & hopeful aspirations of an exhausted ppl.
Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.
I just invented a hug machine. It’s solar powered so you can use it when you feel depressed, like on a cloudy day. Shit.
There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They kept the family going.
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
Nothing mitigates the throes of depression like a steaming plate of spaghetti and meatballs with marinara sauce and grated parmasan cheese, with a good fresh bread to wipe up.
When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.
The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.
A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest, able to find every tree, but each one coming as a surprise.
I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before.
I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression.
