Wayne Dyer Quotes

If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

I can only speak from my own experience, and I would say that the depression I experienced feels like a chemical change. When it came over me, when it comes over me, it feels like it's coming over me like a flu.

Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.

Even when I'm in a really great, steady and stable place... I'm clinically bipolar, so that always exists - a darkness always exists.

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

I seem to be able to get depressed quite easily without any reason.

I don't get depressed.

When I'm depressed is when I'm not interested in writing anything, whereas some people, I think, are spurred to creativity through their personal experiences and through depression. And for me, it's a very low place, and it's not fruitful.

They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.

You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.

I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.

Depression manifests itself in a lack of will.

I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.

Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'

A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed. It doesn’t move on its own. Sometimes it takes A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.

Why should I be depressed? I've got enough money. I've got a job. People like me. There is no to be depressed. That's at stupid as saying there is no reason to have asthma or there is no reason to have the measles. You know you've got it. It's there. It's not about reason.

Depression means that you have no point of view.

Most people live somewhere on the spectrum of anxiety and depression.

My treatment ended in March/April of '08. It wasn't until the end of that summer that I started to feel I wasn't depressed. Even when I went on vacation to Saint Lucia, I was kind of depressed, even though it was such a beautiful place.

Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.

Mania is a wonderful feeling.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird.

Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.