Tao Lin Quotes

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.

You wake up one day and don't want to get out of bed?" he asks. Maybe it's not because you're a loser. Maybe it's because you're depressed.

I'm somewhat depressive.

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.

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.

So I just sat in bed for six months - I literally didn't leave the house - and it was the first time that I'd actually experienced being depressed. I'd be sad on and off but I'd never experienced actual depression. Like, crying for no reason. It was really horrible.

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

I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.

I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.

Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.

I'm what you call a Depression sailor.

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

I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.

Between 2014 and 2016, I was just, like, extremely sad. Like, really, really just not able to be in the spotlight.

Depression is like the worst disease you can get. It's devastating.

Depression, for me, has been a couple of different things - but the first time I felt it, I felt helpless, hopeless, and things I had never felt before. I lost myself and my will to live.

Depression can take you into a black hole, so it is terrible.

I truly, truly suffered depression, to the deep core.

I did not know how to share with someone the fact that I was really, really depressed.

Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and all-consuming and really hurts.

I was depressed for a long time.

I went through an extreme depression.