DEPRESSION

See also: Sorrow

No matter how low you feel, if you count your blessings, you’ll always show a profit.

Author unknown

It is an amazing thing for a soul that believed herself to be advanced in the way of perfection, when she sees herself thus go to pieces all at once.

Madame Guyon

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Carl Jung

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

O weary days, O evenings that never end! For how many long years I have watched that drawing-room clock and thought it would never reach the ten! … In my thirty-first year I see nothing desirable but death.

Florence Nightingale, four years before going to the Crimea

There’s nothing so blocks the spirit as gloom and despondency and downheartedness.

Seraphim

Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.

C.H. Spurgeon

All mental work tends to weary and depress, for much study is a weariness of the flesh. But ours [the work of pastors] is more than mental work; it is heart work – the labor of the inmost soul. How often on Lord’s Day evenings do we feel as if life were completely washed out of us!

C.H. Spurgeon

When you come to the bottom, you find God.

Neville Talbot