Depression Quotes

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

I don't want to die. But I want to be dead.

Place 5 percent to 10 percent of your total assets in gold bullion and selected gold and silver coins. No one knows with certainty whether the coming depression will be inflationary or deflationary.

Whenever I get depressed, I raise my hemlines. If things don't change, I am bound to be arrested.

It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.

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.

Ever since the Great Depression, we know that one of the key ways in which the US economy has stimulated growth is by manufacturing weapons and exporting war to other countries.

Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.

The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine.

When a country is at war or in economic depression, underdevelopment or tightened security, it sets an affective tone or mood, which seeps through into everyday life via all kinds of channels.

This may surprise you, but there were a large number of valuable buys during the Depression.

Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now.

How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?

To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem.

I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?

Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.

All monsters have their fits of depression.

It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.

Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.

Overly positive, horrendously cheerful people can make a depressed person even more depressed. In fact, perhaps the least helpful thing one can say to a depressed person is, "Cheer up!"

I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night.

But what is madness, if not being able to control your own mind?

The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there is hopeless depression and fear.

A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all." Elemental things.

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.

It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of the depression.

I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times.

The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.

I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth.

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.

It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it.

Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression.

Depression is always in the details.

I realized that I had a serious problem with depression, and I went to a doctor and he gave me some medication.

September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.

Manic depression is a frustratin' mess.

After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.

Depression...so mysteriously painful and elusive.

Mice deficient in this protein, called p11, display depression-like behaviors, while those with sufficient amounts behave as if they have been treated with antidepressants.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]

My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.

..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression.

Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race.

I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.