Patty Duke Quotes

Depression is like pushing a car up a hill. It takes all my energy to push the car up the hill. I don't have any energy left to write.

I found myself losing interest in almost everything, I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to do and I didn't know why. Everything there was to do seemed like too much work. The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.

I'm much more prone to feeling down a lot. I just feel sluggish and unmotivated.

It gets harder every day to get out of bed. I don't feel like it loads of the time. It is only my exercise routine which wakes me up.

Once you get depressed, you don't really feel like doing anything. You're kind of discouraged about yourself, and then the weight gain, too, or that makes me more depressed.

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.

My Get Up and Go Has Not Got Up and Went!

If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.

The worst thing in the world is to be tired.

I am really, really tired.

It's a sin to be tired.

Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

I haven't got the energy to write now.

There are days when I am just dead on the floor, and I'm there in my makeup, and that's getting a little tiring.

People who have never dealt with depression think it's just being sad or being in a bad mood. That's not what depression is for me; it's falling into a state of grayness and numbness.

My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.

I'm kind of lethargic in real life.

I'm usually always very happy and funny and positive. It's only when I'm tired that I get a little low energy.

Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.

Sometimes, when you're really depressed, all you want to do is nothing. All you want to do is lean your head on your arm, and stare into space. Sometimes this can go on for hours. If you're unusually depressed, you may have to change arms.

A wave of weariness took him. How could life be so unrelentingly ugly?

I do notice that I am tired.

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.