Top 121 Depressive Quotes & Sayings

My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness.

I'm not a depressive, but I certainly have mood swings. It's an occupational hazard, I would say, and I'm glad I'm in the occupation I'm in.

Alright, so I'm a manic depressive. What do you want from me?

A lot of cops in fiction are very depressive and are kind of downbeat, and they've got all kinds of existential angst that they're dealing with.

The root of creativity is found in the need to repair the good object destroyed during the depressive phase.

The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.

Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things.

Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.

Duisburg was the worst industrial, depressive part of Germany. But it was great. We had nothing, but I didn't miss nothing so that was fine.

If you're manic-depressive and you're functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I'm getting through right now.

Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am no exception.

I think I am naturally depressive.

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

Happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself. It pops into your life unbidden, and then tends to pop out again. I'm on record as being depressive. It is related to winter.

I don't think I'm an unhappy person. It's just an intensity, not a depressive thing. It's just not having enough layers of skin. It's exhausting.

By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.

I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

When I struggled with a depressive episode in 2013, I realized that I had a glitch in my thinking about my own motivation. I had separated learning and teaching into different concepts.

The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance

I still have a lot of those depressive thoughts, but now I have the foresight to tell myself, 'Don't think like that,' and things seem better.

It’s amazing how much you’re missing in a depressive state until you start to come out on the other side. It’s like breathing again after being underwater for far too long.

Manic depressive is a disease.

I am a smiling depressive.

I'm not a big depressive, but I have my moments.

I knew I was a manic depressive when I was 13 or 14, and I loved it. I always told people what I had, and I was always cresting on a manic wave. I used it, willingly and happily, and it was an extraordinary experience. When I got hit with the depressive side - Boom! - yes, it was horrible and unendurable, but that's part of the story.

It's important to say that depression has biological underpinnings, and that while medications do not seem to create irreversible changes in the brain, repeated depressive episodes do.

My dad is actually a manic depressive, which is very exciting half the time.

I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.

I had a husband who, I'm convinced, was an undiagnosed manic depressive. He didn't treat me as if I had a brain - I was just this beautiful little doll he could show off.

I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.

Homicide central, East New York, Where the manic-depressive psycho murderers stalk

I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.

Lke so many depressive, creative, extremely lazy high-school students, I was saved by English class.

All writers are egomaniacal, manic-depressive, drug-addicted alcoholics. You want to have that fix again.

On the whole, my dad was a hero, its just that it got really difficult in his depressive phases, very introspective. And I think he took it out on me really.

It's not a giant thrill to hear someone give you the label 'manic-depressive,' but to me I was so relieved. What I was suffering from had a name and could be treated.

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

One of the first things that I found audiences related to me on outside of my identity was just my general cynical depressive worldview, which, surprisingly a lot of people share!

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

Sleep is my great indulgence, and I get eight hours every night. Being chronically overtired raises stress levels in a bad way and is responsible for a lot of depressive breaks.

I certainly don't think comedians are more depressive than any other walk of life. I have had clinical depression, as it happens. The stress of performing didn't help, but it wasn't about being a comedian in itself.

Being in good physical shape is the best way to combat depression. You just have endorphins running around your body. It is the best anti-depressive that there is.

I'm somewhat depressive.

I am not a depressive person at all.

I'm a dramatic, depressive person.

I always thought I was depressive, and I only recently realized that I have more of an anxiety disorder than chronic depression.

What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.

When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.

The glass is always half empty. All good comedians are manic-depressive.

I haven't really spoken openly about my experiences with depression, especially, not ever having the chance to be in any way clinically diagnosed but I think that I certainly have a naturally depressive personality.

As a teenager, I struggled a lot, had several major depressive episodes, and ended up dropping out of high school and getting a GED.

Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

I didn't want people to accuse me of being really depressive. I really tried to fight against that and not have a complete downer about the subject.

Work ethic and this determination is all part of escaping the depressive side. Of course I'm manic depressive, maybe not to the degree that Exley was, but I think all writers are. There are highs and lows. Look at David Foster Wallace.

I'd definitely say I'm a depressive, someone who suffers from depression.

Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.

I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.

The implication that depressed people are fundamentally irresponsible is a deeply damaging and counterproductive one. Winston Churchill was a depressive. He didn't just fly planes; he was in charge of the Royal Air Force.