Thursday, October 27, 2011

20 Brilliant Quotes About Depression

Quote time.  It’s hard to find relevant thoughts on depression since the most quote sites are auto-generate. Therefore, I put together a few statements I personally liked.  
Here are some of my favorite quotes about depression and the self.  
Enjoy -

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
Ayn Rand
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
Sir Winston Churchill
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Mark Twain
Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.
J. K. Rowling,
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Euripides
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
Sir Winston Churchill
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
Euripides
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston Churchill
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Sophocles
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
W. M. Lewis
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde

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