Depression Quotes

If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

What's the use? The people are too stupid. They do not understand.

Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

During the next four years...unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will stand on the brink of a deep depression.

Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression.

And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.

I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write.

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.

Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.

I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth.

Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

I hope we will never again see such a depression. But I am troubled by the huge consumer installment debt which hangs over the people of the nation, including our own people.

I'm in love with someone good and kind and gentle, and he's seen the darkness too, but somehow we've become each other's light.

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.

THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.

The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

Depression makes me hate the world, but it gives me a million things to think.

A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

We have hit bottom and are on the upswing.

I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.

In a nutshell: Medical research has shown that Hypericum is an effective treatment for depression-as successful as prescription anti-depressions in a majority of patients.

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.

Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

There are seminars that teach us how to cope with depression, sickness and relationship break down. But God wants us to overcome.

It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.

I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?' 'Snap out of it! Five cents, please.

Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

[The blues] is the antidote for sadness and depression.

Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin in a thoroughly irrational hope.

The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover.