The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

Depression is a serious problem, but drugs are not the answer. In the long run, psychotherapy is both cheaper and more effective, even for very serious levels of depression. Physical exercise and self-help books based...

Sometimes it feels like we’re all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.

Es gibt Tage, wo das Leben übertrieben flau ist. Zu Bett gehen; weiter hilft nichts mehr.

This story [“The Depressed Person”] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It’s about narcissism, which is a part of depression. The character has traits of myself. I really lost friends while writing on...

The red washingdown the bathtubcan’t change the color of the seaat all.

We have a task before us which must be speedily performed. We know that it will be ruinous to make delay. The most important crisis of our life calls, trumpet-tongued, for immediate energy and action....

And this was perhaps the first time in my life that death occurred to me as a reality. I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to...

Depression is rage spread thin.

He’s afraid,” Graber said.”Yes, naturally. But he’s a good dog.””And a man-eater.””We’re all that.””Why?””We are. And we think, just like that dog, that we are still good. And just like him we are looking for...

The silver flask called to him.Blue Coyote Motel

Like eggs, I’m scrambling to get ahead in this economic depression.

It would still be a long way until she was completely free, but the door had been cracked open and a smidgen of hope broke through the darkness.

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side...

Perhaps the relevant truth- and it’s one whose existence was apparent to my wife, and I’m sure to much of the world, long before it became apparent to me-is that we all find ourselves in...

Sometimes when you experience something wonderful, everything else loses its shine.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression’s actual essence, which is...

Once you hit rock bottom, that’s where you perfectly stand; That’s your chance of restarting, but restarting the right way.

The sick in mind, and, perhaps, in body, are rendered more darkly and hopelessly so by the manifold reflection of their disease, mirrored back from all quarters in the deportment of those about them; they...

Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. Time didn’t mean anything, nothing had form but I was still me, you know?...

After every sunny day, comes a stormy night

It’s not the deprivations of winter that get you, or the damp of spring, but the no-man’s land between.

In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell onto their own lives in order to re-create it, that others might suffer...

The more you try to impress, the more you become depressed, and the more they get tired of your coercion. It doesn’t make them love you, instead, they’ll see you as a little child, trying...

Suiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the soul?”Oh, rather!”What do you do about it?”I generally take a couple of cocktails.

I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way…. I didn’t try hard enough to swallow myself.

I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed.

We have talked about Suzy and about her last days, but it’s as if our lives stopped then and there. If I say anything to him about feeling lonesome, he goes outside and does some...

Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions – depression, anger, anxiety – and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones.

He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.

I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear.

Rain is a lullaby heard through a thick, isolating blanket of clouds. It is the tinkling harp of water droplets; a moist breath whistling through willow reeds; a pattering beat background to the mourner’s melody....

Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. … One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

I know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed

Not easy to state the change you made.If I’m alive now, I was dead,Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.

Whenever you need a listening ear, we’ll be there. Don’t let PTSD get a hold on you. Seek help.

It’s not so much that I want to die as that I’m tired of living.

Depression thrives in secrecy but shrinks in empathy.

Depression is about anger, it is about anxiety, it is about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is...

If you take action while you are mad, you will always make the wrong decision.

Okay, I’ll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues.

Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don’t kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long, hard struggle to stay alive. When somebody dies after a long illness, people are apt to say, with...

out there” cannot project itself as an affective experience. It is all a vacuous affair with only a chemical prestige. Nothing is either good or bad, desirable or undesirable, or anything else except that it...

I pop the lenses out of my sunglasses that way I see the bright side of things because if you always look at the dark side of things your not seeing the brightness that all...

The world can ask you to participate, but it’s a day-today decision if you want to agree to that proposal.

My heart is broken.

Cuando estás fatal es cuando intentan pillarte.

I don’t have problems. I am a writer. I am the problem.