Nobody wants to be depressed – everybody’s trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it’s all the more poignant.
I’m always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I spend so many hours with these fictional people, I sometimes see them more than my real friends. And then they’re gone, and we’ll never be together like that again.
If I’m kind of sad or depressed, it doesn’t necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I’m depressed about.
Until I got the weight off, there was something inside of me that said, ‘You hate yourself.’ You get too depressed over the weight to really work on this. For whatever reason, I had to take the weight off to do this work.
Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
Every movie I do, I always use things that have happened in my life. Funny moments, anything. If it just sticks out I’ll write it down and use that, too, because it has to come out of you. But no one can work when they’re depressed. I don’t think I’d physically be able to do it if I were depressed.
I don’t waste time being depressed.
Some people think they’re depressed and they go to the doctor and want pills. And you just think: ‘You hate where you live, you’ve lost your job, your boyfriend has dumped you, could all this be why you’re depressed?’
When you’re an artist, there’s always a moment in your life when you think you’re not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you’re just depressed, so you don’t move, so you don’t change. So you’re not inspired.
I do get depressed sometimes, I don’t know why. It’s since I was a kid and it’s just part of my personality.
I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don’t use that word.
When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‘Lives of Girls and Women,’ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.
But I’m not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.
Who wouldn’t be depressed living in a society that can’t agree on reality, let alone health-care policy?
I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.
The period from 2001 to 2005 was really tough. My films were not working even though there was an acceptance of a model. I was depressed but did not cry. I cry when I am happy.
Joni Mitchell seems destined to remain in a state of permanent dissatisfaction – always knowing what she would like to do, always more depressed when it’s done.
I don’t want to get all self-help on everyone. But I definitely think there was a period in my life where I thought I would feel the same way, forever. And every day felt like ‘Groundhog Day,’ where I was super, super depressed.
When I turned 17, that’s when it all got a bit too much. I decided to stop doing pretty much everything. I quit football. I wouldn’t get up in the morning. I wouldn’t go out of my room. I was very depressed.
It’s amazing what happens when you’re confident as an artist. The writing completely changes, and you’re no longer depressed about your sound or what it’s going to be or if people are going to like it.
The more you practise happiness, the better you get at it. So if you spend lots of time practising being depressed, you’re going to get really good at being depressed. And if you spend lots of time practising being happy, you’re going to get better at being happy.
I love poetry. If my mind gets a bit tight or bound up with information or depressed with bad news, I find a good book of poetry is like going to the gym for an hour. My mind just expands.
I wear a lot of black, and it’s not because I’m depressed or anything. I like black jeans – they’re pretty much the only colored jeans I wear. James Jeans have the most comfortable fabric. I’d say in general, I dress pretty comfortably.
It’s a mood record. Like one night you’re going to be down in the dumps depressed because you’re thinking about your ex-boyfriend and the next moment you’re gonna be like screw him you know? And the next one you’re saying to yourself ‘God I’m in love.’
I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we’d have long conversations.
I was depressed a lot as a kid, and I was really sad and wouldn’t be able to get out of bed.
The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.
I very classically would go into manic phases, which were as dangerous, if not more so, than the depressed phases, and I think I’d come up with the best ideas I ever had, and then the next day, I’d look at them and be like, ‘This is nonsense,’ because it was born out of a manic episode. What a waste of time.
Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that’s where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.
I look at cinema from an entertainment point of view. I wouldn’t want to come out feeling giddy or depressed.
Really, if you get to know pigs, they’re very moody. They’re not sweet little animals at all. That’s what I like about them. They get depressed; they get into these snits. They’re carnivorous.
When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, ‘This, too, shall pass.’
I still have downs and get depressed, but I try not to dwell too much on being negative because it always passes and there is still so much to do.
I had decided to go to a theatre school for a dramatic training but after a few months, I dropped out. I was not comfortable. I was kind of depressed. It was then that I went to Second City.
I guess there are a lot of writers out there who get really inspired when they’re depressed. I can’t write about being depressed until I’m happy. That’s all there is to it. I need space.
A lot of time I like to sing music that people can relate to, but not necessarily put them in a depressed mood.
Editing is a lot about patience and discipline and just banging away at something, turning off the machine and going home at night because you’re frustrated and depressed, and then coming back in the morning to try again.
To be an elite athlete is really hard when you’re depressed.
The Barrow Administration, with its misguided philosophy of big government wanting to own or control every facet of economic activity in Belize, has depressed and squeezed out the private sector. The inevitable result is mass firing of workers, foreclosures, and downsizing.
I’ve felt depressed many times in my life, so I can draw on those times in my life when I need to.
After I came out to my mother at 17, I ran away from home and lived with a friend. We come from a highly religious family, and she could not accept it. It was devastating, and I was depressed.
In retrospect, I never thought of myself as conceited – I never even wore makeup or styled my hair until I was an adult – but having Bell’s Palsy made me hyper-aware of the way I looked. I became completely depressed, never wanting to get out of bed or even answer the phone.
I am neither dejected nor depressed because every one has a bad phase in one’s life. I realized it the hard way because the momentum of my social life too slowed down.
I’m so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.
I seem to be able to get depressed quite easily without any reason.
Everyone has their own battles, people feel bad all the time for different reasons. For me it was feeling depressed, anxious and out of place. But I wanted to give people something that could sit with them on their own personal level.
It’s always good to show that poetry isn’t the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it’s something bigger.
Even when I’m sick and depressed, I love life.
You can easily get depressed. Usually, if you play sports, you think that one match or one game is very important, and when you lose it, you think your whole world is over.
Stoke’s a depressed area, so people are working hard to get out of it.
When you are debilitated, and you’re very depressed, and you believe there’s no hope, you cannot get a better potpourri of down.
Savage Garden was a roller coaster experience. By the second album I was living in New York, my whole life had changed. I was probably depressed.
When I’m feeling down on myself or not feeling good about who I am, or maybe something happened and I’m feeling depressed, I eat to fill that void. Afterwards I’ll beat myself up about it. I regret doing it, but I’ll turn around and do it again.
There are, I’m depressed to say, many classics I have not yet read and will probably never get around to, though I will not stop short of hospitalizing myself in the attempt.
We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.
