Depression Quotes

I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.

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

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.

But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.

After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge ... This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.

I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression.

A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.

Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in alarms and raw bells and sirens.

Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.

When I came out of the Depression, I came out of it with a different point of view as to what constituted success. And that was even just even personal success.

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories

Depression is a physical illness.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S.

To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about.

[With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.

I have a plan-to go mad.

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.

Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.

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.

The way out of the depression is to start spending and doing things.

Women who put on a few pounds after starting lithium sometimes say the cure is worse than the disease. The weight gain shoots them straight into depression.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account.

Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'

The country is not in good condition.

From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.

The Great Depression in the United States was caused - I won't say caused, was enormously intensified and made far worse than it would have been by bad monetary policy.

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

Depression is the reward we get for being 'good'.

A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost your trousers - you're in the airline business.

Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

The Internet bubble circa 2000 is the most extreme in modern capitalism. In the 1930s, we had the worst depression in 600 years. Today is almost as extreme in the opposite way.

Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.

The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.

That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any more. I haven't been like that for a long time.

If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.

Depression is the most extreme form of vanity.

The Government's business is in sound condition.