Langston Hughes Quotes

That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.

Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.

When you are in depression, almost magically, nothing motivates you.

I don't want to be submerged by depression.

I think one of the scariest things about depression is that it exists along with the happiness and the joy, and it kind of plays with it and sucks the color from it.

Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.

Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.

I trudged around on the muddy river bottom for half an hour, patiently waiting to drown, before giving up and slogging my way back to shore.

I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I leave it blank.

I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.

Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearale. But you won't even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getter older, about turning eight or about turning twelve or turning fifteeen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot on the white terrain of human existence. One morning you wake up afraid you are going to live.

I'm drowning in whiskey river.

I am too busy thinking about killing myself.

Grief is like sinking, like being buried.

I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.

Trust me, you know when you've got depression.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.

At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.

I'm so involved in melancholy.

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself.

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.