Depression quotes

“This crying in the morning thing, this depression, let's get that fixed.”
Hugh Grant - Will Freeman

Hemingway has his classic moment in "The Sun Also Rises" when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt. All he can say is, "Gradually, then suddenly". That's how depression hits. You wake up one morning, afraid that you're gonna live.
Christina Ricci - Elizabeth

“I felt thoroughly depressed and even quite seriously considered committing suicide. Life seemed so much not worth the living and death such an easy way out.”
Melanie Lynskey - Pauline Parker

“I sunk into a depression only Hamlet would recognize.”
Lindsay Lohan - Lola

“All the drugs, all the therapy, fights, anger, guilt, rave, suicidal thoughts, all of that was part of some slow recovery process. The same way I went down I came back up, gradually... and then suddenly. The pills weren't the cure at all. God knows, but they gave me breathing space which allowed me to start writing again.”
Christina Ricci - Elizabeth

“- George Hayden: My Charlie, you weren't even thirty. You were the most famous man in the world, with your own studio, named after you. Couldn't you just enjoy it?
- Charlie Chaplin: I can now, but couldn't then. It meant too much.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - George Hayden
Robert Downey Jr. - Charles Spencer Chaplin

You know, how you think you're always headed toward something? You think "when we get married" or "when we have kids" or "when the kids go and it's just us again." You know, there's always something to look forward to. And one day, I realized that we are not going toward anything anymore.
Meryl Streep - Kay

“- Trixie Lorraine: What's the show about?
- Barney Hopkins: It's all about the Depression.
- Carol King: We won't have to rehearse that.”
Aline MacMahon - Trixie Lorraine
Ned Sparks - Barney Hopkins
Joan Blondell - Carol King

“To be loved is very demoralizing.”
Katharine Hepburn

“- Marvin: I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.
- Trillian: Well, we have something that may take your mind off it.
- Marvin: It won't work, I have an exceptionally large mind.”
Warwick Davis - Marvin
Zooey Deschanel - Trillian

“I don't expect you to be as depressed as I am. But I don't think your happiness is quite appropriate.”

Luke Wilson - Anthony Adams

“Man wants chaos. In fact, he's got to have it. Depression, strife, riots, murder. All this dread. We're irresistibly drawn to that almost orgiastic state created out of death and destruction. It's in all of us.”
J.C. Shakespeare - Burning Man

- Valentin Arregui: You only know the reality that was stuck up your ass!
- Luis Molina: Why should I think about reality in this stink hole? That's like "Why should I get more depressed that I already am?".
- Valentin Arregui: You're worse than I thought! Do you use these movies to jerk yourself off?

Raul Julia - Valentin Arregui
William Hurt - Luis Molina

“I know how you feel. Like you wanna lay down and die.”

Albert Hall - Baines

“- Dan: Everybody wants to be happy.
- Larry: Depressives don't. They want to be unhappy to confirm they're depressed. If they were happy they couldn't be depressed anymore. They'd have to go out into the world and live. Which can be depressing.”
Jude Law - Dan
Clive Owen - Larry

“Try to be your normal, humorous self. The guy you were before the tailspin. Do you remember that guy? People love that guy.”
Thomas Haden Church - Jack

“Now I'm depressed. Now I feel like killing myself, but luckily I'm too depressed to bother.”
Christian Slater - Mark Hunter

“Let us just say I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.”
Steve Martin - Harris K. Telemacher

“- Rita: You didn't really mean to kill yourself. You were just...
- Trish: Just what, darling? Poor Susan. You think you've got everything, don't you?
- Rita: Trish, you have.
- Trish: Oh yes. When I listen to poetry and music, then I can live. You see, darling, the rest of the time it's just me. And that's not enough.”
Julie Walters - Rita
Maureen Diane Lipman - Trish

“You're wearing the uniform of the depressed: sweatpants and a raincoat.”

Luke Wilson - Andy

“A young and brilliant actress who could no longer find a spot in the theater, and it was for her more than for anyone else that I was able to go on. And I hope that wherever she is, she knows and understands and forgives.”

Katharine Hepburn - Terry Randall

“- Crook #1: One hundred and twenty-five years without a woof of pussy. How'd that make you feel, Mason?
- Crook #2: Mean. Very, very mean!”

I'm not shooting for a "successful" relationship at this point, I'm just looking for something that will prevent me from throwing myself in front of a bus. I'm keeping my expectations very very low.
Janeane Garofalo - Lucille

“Positive thinking is fine in theory. But whenever I try it on a systematic basis... I end up really depressed.”
Taylor Nichols - Ted Boynton

“- Sgt. Al Powell: What about the body that fell out the window?
- Deputy Police Chief Dwayne T. Robinson: Well, who knows? Probably some stockbroker, got depressed.”
Reginald VelJohnson - Sgt. Al Powell
Paul Gleason - Deputy Police Chief Dwayne T. Robinson