Depression Quotes

all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.

I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it.

It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut my wages out, also the job.

I was born and raised during Depression Years when we were on County relief and we all went out and we hustled. we worked. I worked in a restaurant, I washed dishes.

Our present predicament comes from the fact that running the economy on blood is no longer fashionable. We can't end this depression with another war.

You always wrestle with depression, you always wrestle with those things, because the events and the experiences are still there, and the things that take place are still happening.

There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life.

I still get awful depression. It's who I am.

If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.

Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull 'em up. Choose joy.

Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

in a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box.

Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet.

Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is one of the best financial and life skills you can master.

I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look like if I slipped a few notches on the mental-health index.

They say that depression is anger you turn on yourself, and I think women do that.

People of each generation in the twentieth century "were three times more likely to experience depression" than people of the preceding generation.

I've had a lot of struggles with depression. It's very easy for me to go to a bleak place, or for me to doubt humanity, myself, the world, my choices.

You're never too old to be crazy.

Needless to say, banks and bondholders do not want to promote any arguments explaining the limits to how much can be paid without pushing economies into depression.

The universe never says no to your thought about yourself. It only grows it.

Depression starts slow.

I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.

I've never had a single moment of depression, because I know my cause will triumph.

It is reported that about 30% of the world's population is unemployed. That's worse than the Great Depression, but it's now an international phenomenon.

Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted after that was a breather and a calm and a quiet life, and they get us.

Becoming active is the key remedy for depression.

I started cooking out of middle school depression.

I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide.

When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.

The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.

My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.

What the Depression teaches us is that when the economy is so depressed that even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, you have to put conventional notions of prudence and sound policy aside.

Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was not the best of times, and yet I don't recall ever having experiences that were a burden.

Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

Don't waste your love on stupid people. Anyone stupid enough to deny or reject it-in the midst of the Love Depression we're in-does not deserve it.

So I analyzed that and decided I didn't want to be the president during a depression greater than the Great Depression, or the beginning of a depression greater than the Great Depression.

I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education.

I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.

It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.

Depression is like a headache or true love or any of those indefinable concepts. If you've never been there, you don't know what it's like until you're too far in to stop the process.

I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression.

As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.

In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.

If I'm not writing a thing, depression might be looming.

Depressions are very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I was on TV, yes I was effervescent, you can't fake it. It [depression] comes like the pox.

As I mentioned, things were particularly hard during the Depression. My paternal grandfather was frequently out of work, and the family was evicted from their home.

I just hope the film [Aquarius] doesn't feel overly nostalgic because too much nostalgia for me leads to depression. I think Clara is very pragmatic.