Depression Quotes

Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?

Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days.

The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.

I will find a way out or make one.

Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting

The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.

I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.

Eating chocolates or popping pills won't reduce depression.Instead, one must read Gita. This will help relieve the stress and depression in life. It will help in dealing with challenges of life.

Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally.

There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash.

So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology.

Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

Every man has his secret sorrows.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist.

I think I'm afraid of being happy because whenever I get too happy something bad always happens.

There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue.

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

Homosexuals die decades younger than heterosexuals, from a host of maladies. They suffer mental problems ranging from depression to psychosis, and have suicide rates many times that of heterosexuals.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Being in good physical shape is the best way to combat depression. You just have endorphins running around your body. It is the best anti-depressive that there is.

I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories

In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

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.

As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

Happiness is the most important thing in the world, without it, you live a life of depression.

I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else.

I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism.

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.