Aaron Tveit Quotes

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

This is one of the reasons I'm so interested in stories. Because everyone has a story in their life, and when their story doesn't make sense, that's when we get depressed, I think.

People generally report higher levels of stress, depression, and tension after watching TV. It seems that TV's main virtue is that it occupies the mind undemandingly.

Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is senseless and painful, and that by talking about it, I have come to peace with it. The stigma behind people's suffering needs to end. We as a community need to embrace these disorders, try to understand them (if only just to talk about them) so that we can cease being defined by them.

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.

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

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

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

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

I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.

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

There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level of despair you live in. Where you're not getting any answers, but you're living OK. And you can smile at the office. You know? But it's a low level of despair. I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever. I had to get off at a certain point because I realized that, you know, everything's just OK.

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.

We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it’s dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying.

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

I wasn't going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant I'd feel ashamed, which meant I'd get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it so I wouldn't get out of bed, which led to the ultimate thing—homelessness. If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away.

Why should I be depressed? I've got enough money. I've got a job. People like me. There is no to be depressed. That's at stupid as saying there is no reason to have asthma or there is no reason to have the measles. You know you've got it. It's there. It's not about reason.

I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.

Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.

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

The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.