quotes about depression

I will not die an unlived life.... I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit. ~Dawna Markova


The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent. ~Nick Lyons, Bright Rivers, 1977


Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo


If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. ~E. Joseph Cossman


God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them. ~Richard J. Needham


No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner. ~Thomas Robert Dewar


Science does not know its debt to imagination. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Television to brainwash us all and Internet to eliminate any last resistance. ~Paul Carvel


Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit. ~Maureen Murphy


Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. ~Author Unknown


It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate. ~George McGovern


One token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter II "The Market-Place"


There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection is the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted. ~Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behaviour


If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. ~Voltaire


Needlepoint: the delicious art of filling in holes with wool. ~Carole Berman and Jennifer Lazarus


I figure that the degree of difficulty in combining two lives ranks somewhere between rerouting a hurricane and finding a parking place in downtown Manhattan. ~Claire Cloninger, "When the Glass Slipper Doesn't Fit and the Silver Spoon is in Someone Else's Mouth"


Good company upon the road is the shortest cut. ~Author Unknown


A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job. ~Caroline Bird


How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. ~Benjamin Disraeli