Kirsten Dunst Quotes

You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you.

If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.

I've always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you're down can actually make you feel less depressed. Also, even though a person may have problems with depression, sometimes you can actually be kind of comfortable in that space because you know how to operate within it.

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.

Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.

In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.

The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.

Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.

This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.

It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

We all know that being able to express deep emotion can literally save a person's life, and suppressing emotion can kill you both spiritually and physically.

Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

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

When you have a tough childhood, you either cry or make a joke.

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.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

I kind of like being depressed.

I don't have time to be depressed.

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.

I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.