Stephen Fry Quotes

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

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

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

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.

A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.

People don't know how to talk about being depressed - that it's totally okay to feel sad.

One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous while you're experiencing it. You know that most people manage to listen to their messages, and eat lunch, and organise themselves to take a shower and go out the front door, and that it's not a big deal. And yet you are nonetheless in its grip and you are unable to figure out any way around it.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

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

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

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

A new study found that people who are depressed have a greater risk of stroke. Well that should cheer them up.

It's interesting to watch people go through it in something like this. I mean, what other then Melancholia films do they portray depression in?

This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you're rocking

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.

Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.

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 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.

Depression means that you have no point of view.

Depression is inertia.

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.

Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?