Quotes and sayings about tag  depression

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

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• Life

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 effect of dying.

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• Life

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

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• Life

I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.

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• Inspirational

Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.

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• Life

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

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• Life

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

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• Life

She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.

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• Hope

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

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• Happiness

I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.

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• Motivational

I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.

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• Love

Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.

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• Love

Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.

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• Motivational

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

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• Life