Depressed Person Quotes:

I think I've gotten a pretty fair shake in the music press over the years. The only think that kind of irks me is when people assume that I must be really depressed person because they find my songs to be sad.

- Thalia Zedek

topic: Song, Thinking, Depressed Person

We can affect people around us so much with our moods. A depressed person can make a room gloomy and a sweet nature can cause the lion to lie down with the lamb.

- Polly Horvath

source: Polly Horvath (2008). “My One Hundred Adventures”, p.21, Schwartz & Wade

topic: Sweet, Lying, Depressed Person

The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.

- David Foster Wallace

topic: Pain, Depressed Person, Essentials, Articulating

Definitely not-you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up.It makes us sick." Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

- Brandon Sanderson

topic: Cheer, Depressed Person, Sick

I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.

- Eve Ensler

topic: Hate, Depressed Person, Self, Self Hatred

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Depression, Cancer, Sadness, Depressed Person, Being Depressed

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Change, Grief, Learning, Way In Life, Empowering Women

When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which he believes is the essence of his being and which he believes can injure you.

- Dorothy Rowe

source: Dorothy Rowe (2003). “Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison”, p.197, Psychology Press

topic: Depression, Believe, Mean, Shrinks, Depressed Person

One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.

- Andrew Solomon

topic: Ordinary, Lost, Description, Depressed Person, Disabled

While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

topic: Depression, Needs, Hours, Depressed Person

Overly positive, horrendously cheerful people can make a depressed person even more depressed. In fact, perhaps the least helpful thing one can say to a depressed person is, "Cheer up!"

- Harold H. Bloomfield

source: Harold H. Bloomfield, Peter McWilliams (1996). “How to Heal Depression”, Mary Book / Prelude Pr

topic: Depression, Cheer, People, Depressed Person

Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not seem to be the choice, but it is: complete self effacement, surrender to the "others", disavowal of any personal dignity and freedom-on the one hand; and freedom and independence, movement away from the others, extrication of oneself from the binding links of family and social duties-on the other hand. This is the choice that the depressed person actually faces.

- Ernest Becker

topic: Betrayal, Real, Self, Depressed Person, Ineptitude

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 that story, I became ugly and unhappy and just yelled at people. The cruel thing with depression is that it's such a self-centered illness - Dostoevsky shows that pretty good in his "Notes from Underground". The depression is painful, you're sapped/consumed by yourself; the worse the depression, the more you just think about yourself and the stranger and repellent you appear to others.

- David Foster Wallace

topic: Character, Writing, Thinking, Painful Things, Depressed Person

Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing.

- Martin Seligman

topic: Depression, Self Esteem, Hopeful, Depressed Person, Passivity

The Failure of Will theory is equally popular with people who are not depressed. Get out and take your mind off yourself, they say. You're too self-absorbed. This is just about the stupidest thing you can say to a depressed person, and it is said every day to depressed people all over this country. And if it isn't that, it's Shut up and take your Prozac.

- Chase Twichell

topic: Depression, Country, Self, Depressed Person, Depressed People

The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist.

- Julia Kristeva

topic: Atheist, Sullen, Radical, Depressed Person