It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are it's victim and we have no control over it.
August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation.
The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne.
Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
The results of decades of neurotransmitter-depletion studies point to one inescapable conclusion: low levels or serotonin, norepinephrine or dopamine do not cause depression. here is how the authors of the most complete meta-analysis of serotonin-dep...
I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and cl...
If you look at your average contemporary person, the potential for tragedy is immense. The people and things we love and value are strewn across the globe. Any number of health disasters can befall you or them. The truth is depressing. We are going t...
He sang “I wish I weren’t me” over and over again just flat of the key of love until he forgot the words and could only hum along. Everyday was the same. The same stupid smile on the same stupid boy. Until the days blurred into a haze and the b...
Well, the husband was very depressed for the longest while. Even after he found out that his wife was going to pull through, he was still very depressed. Not about the accident, though. I mean, the accident was one thing, but it wasn't everything. I'...
It's an unfortunate word, 'depression', because the illness has nothing to do with feeling sad, sadness is on the human palette. Depression is a whole other beast. It's when your old personality has left town and been replaced by a block of cement wi...
Tyler Durden: Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us cha...
These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.
...she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.
I just wanna have fun and breathe, but I can’t do either one of them when I suffocate myself with depression.
...you are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression...
There is a difference between depression and sadness. I am happy to be sad.
As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.
