Toni Morrison Quotes

As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.

One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. That's why I think it is important to stay passionate.

I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?

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

So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology.

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70 years ago. They could be really tough because of infirmity.

Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.

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

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

Sometimes when you have bipolar you have days you are grumpy and not feeling yourself.

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

One day, at my office, I wrote down some names and dates and notes, and I wrote a title, 'The Age of Despair,' and then some other 'Ages' - Innocence, God, Reason, Hope - and I wrote this as well: 'Woman, born in 1930, lives till the age of 80 or so, suffers depression, marries a car dealer, has children who grow up to confuse her.'

Things are old. Parts are old. I'm talking about 'us' parts. AARP-parts. Some of us were born with stronger parts than others.

Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what's going on in the external world. It's not like something sad happens to you and then you feel sad. Good things happen, but you feel sad anyway.

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.

The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of the face is dry and wrinkled and generally pale. The hairs on the head and the body are white. The back is bent, and the gait is slow and laborious, whilst the memory is weak. Such are the most familiar traits of old age.

You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.

People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.

after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head

I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair: Time, doing this to me, may alter too My anguish, into something I can bear

Is there any indication we shouldn't be depressed - are you living on the same planet that I am? Do you ever think that depression might be the reasonable human response to the crap we're going through as a species, meant to propel us into the next evolutionary step, or at least into taking some different course of action so we might survive? Do you ever think that maybe it's the happy people that are really screwed up in the head?

Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.

Depression starts slow.

I'm in a contented, loving relationship, but that doesn't mean I'm not struggling with other things that are going on around me in the world.