Depression Quotes

The terrible burden of having nothing to do.

Whoever is without hope, dulled, without spirit,

A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,
A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,
Which finds no natural outlet or relief,
In word, or sigh, or tear.

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.
And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms.

I was plagued by a heavy sense of loss, as if my heart had become empty.

To have accomplished nothing and to die overworked.

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed. A school of fish appeared around the net or a knot cried out to be reknotted. Or I thought of my family, of how they were spared this terrible agony. The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

exI feel unspeakably lonely. And I feel - drained. It is a blank state of mind and soul I cannot describe to you as I think it would not make any difference. Also it is a very private feeling I have - that of melting into a perpetual nervous breakdown. I am often questioning myself what I further want to do, who I further wish to be; which parts of me, exactly, are still functioning properly. No answers, darling. At all.

When you get so down that you can't get up, and you want so much but you're all out of luck
When you're so downhearted and misunderstood, just over and over and over, you could...

The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.

I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer.

nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.