Top 100 A Depression Quotes
#1. It's interesting what former presidents do when they leave office. Bush is now working as a motivational speaker. And if you want to be motivated, who better to turn to than the guy who invaded the wrong country and started a depression.
David Letterman
#2. Even if consumer confidence hit rock bottom, that most likely would not be enough, by itself, to cause a depression.
Charles Duhigg
#3. What I am feeling in myself, and what is happening to my physical body, to some extent, and what is happening to me mentally, is not a depression, is not a death. It is a transformation. It is a transcendence.
Glenn Beck
#4. There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path.
Mike Wallace
#5. When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
Jesse Jackson
#6. Without noticing, I slip into a light yet lingering malaise. Not a depression, more like a fascination for melancholia, which I turn in my hand as if it were a small planet, streaked in shadow, impossibly blue.
Patti Smith
#7. A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade ... there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.
Nathaniel Branden
#8. The proper governmental policy in a depression is strict laissez-faire, including stringent budget slashing, and coupled perhaps with positive encouragement for credit contraction.
Murray Rothbard
#9. When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
Jesse Jackson
#10. Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.
Carroll Quigley
#11. The left-wing agenda wants us to think that the reason there was a depression was because the government didn't do anything. That's not true.
Peter Schiff
#12. Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.
Robert Nozick
#13. World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name.
Gore Vidal
#14. You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'
Joe Biden
#15. I was a Depression kid, growing up in Oklahoma.
James Garner
#16. This is Michelangelo, and I think it's pretty fucked-up you don't even know which one is yours anymore. You've probably sent Raphael into a depression.
J. Lynn
#17. Writer's block is as a depression in the earth. Like a river that flows into this depression for a time of rest and tranquility, eventually filling to continue its journey from the lower end of its shore line, so too shall your creative juices flow again.
Everett R. Lake
#19. I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named after him.
Herbert Hoover
#20. Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
Karen Horney
#21. New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.
John Catsimatidis
#22. If government wishes to see a depression ended as quickly as possible and the economy returned to normal prosperity, what course should it adopt? The first and clearest injunction is: Don't interfere with the market's adjustment process.
Murray Rothbard
#23. The first time I fell into a depression I was waiting tables at an Outback Steakhouse.
Jade Bos
#24. My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out the best art in black people. The best example is, Reagan and Bush gave us the best years of hiphop.
Questlove
#25. What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's a hole? You tell me what's a hole! And I'll tell you that a hole is nothin'!
Jimmy Durante
#26. We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Karen Horney
#27. They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression.
Rick Majerus
#28. I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza.
Helen Thomas
#29. 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.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#30. No reason to feel depressed about being depressed. A depression can be a golden opportunity to collect the pieces and build ourselves anew. Global Souls are always on the move, nomads at heart, connected to various cities, commuters between cultures, both from here and everywhere.
Elif Shafak
#31. The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.
William Vickrey
#32. I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.
Anne Frank
#33. You may cure yourself of a depression by forcing yourself to perform, in rapid order and with excruciating concentration, half a dozen or so unpleasant chores, especially if they have long been postponed. This is a kind of homeopathic purgative, a treatment of like with like.
Robert Grudin
#34. A recession is when your neighbour has to tighten his belt. A depression is when you have to tighten your own belt. And a panic is when you have no belt to tighten and your pants fall down.
Tommy Douglas
#35. It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.
Harry Truman
#36. Politically, economically and socially, the Twenty-Teens are a Depression. The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.
Bruce Sterling
#37. I looked hard out the window and understood suddenly that what I saw was full of color. A watercolor wash of summer light lay on the Catalina Mountains. The end of a depression is that clear: it's as if you have been living underwater, but never realized it until you came up for air.
Barbara Kingsolver
#38. It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.
Robert Smith
#39. A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Joan Robinson
#40. 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.
George W. Bush
#41. 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.
William J. Clinton
#42. To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem.
Michael Hudson
#43. Jason had attended debutante balls. Knew the drill. My crew would have to conduct research on YouTube. Jason was popular on the cotillion scene. My guys weren't even on the radar. Asking Jason would get Whitney off my back. Inviting only Morris Island boys might plummet her into a depression.
Kathy Reichs
#44. Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
Victor Hugo
#45. And now I was older, and the wishful props of future selves had lost their comforts. I might always feel some form of this, a depression that did not lift but grew compact and familiar, a space occupied like the sad limbo of hotel rooms.
Emma Cline
#46. It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
Frances McDormand
#48. I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.
Amy Winehouse
#49. Severe depression, put simply, is an overwhelming and unmanageable onslaught of every normal, human fear and difficult emotion. It is a loss of and lack of perspective and proportion.
Sally Brampton
#50. If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.
Austan Goolsbee
#51. In the wasteland of metro Boston, at thirteen, fourteen, his big dream had been of a gun to his own head, putting him out of his misery - a misery that by sophomore year of college was indistinguishable from everybody else's.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#52. It would still be a long way until she was completely free, but the door had been cracked open and a smidgen of hope broke through the darkness.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#53. Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing - and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.
Jacob M. Appel
#54. There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They kept the family going.
Cheryl Ladd
#55. At the back of my mind there is always a fear the depression could return but I do all the right things. I try to get the right amount of sleep because I know that I need sleep to function and I need to eat properly and to do some exercising.
Melanie Chisholm
#56. My mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"
and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw
Charles Bukowski
#57. You need hope to form a thought. It takes-I don't know-optimism to speak, to engage in conversation. Because really, what's the point of all this communicating? What difference does it really make what we say to each other? Or what we do, for that matter?
Noah Hawley
#58. If you don't think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.
Kris Carr
#59. December is the most difficult month. Medications for insomnia or depression go up during the month of December. A lot of people who experience loss feel that loss magnified in December. Everybody seems happy and you feel all alone. You're not all alone.
Max Lucado
#60. It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely.
Melina Marchetta
#61. I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.
Jennifer Lynch
#62. In Britain, doctors now use exercise as a first-line treatment for depression, but it's vastly underutilized in the United States,
John J. Ratey
#63. Eloise knew that it was so much more complicated than that. There are no trades in this life, and depression is a dark, dark doorway some people have no choice but to walk through.
Lisa Unger
#64. Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#65. It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.
Jenny Downham
#66. He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.
Frank Herbert
#67. Elli-" Neve lies down next to him. "It is not easy being friend with someone who has depression. Not because it's a burden, but because you love them. So their pain becomes your own." She rests her hand on his chest. "You really expect me to just sit by and do nothing ?
Nelou Keramati
#68. I think Shehnaz was right. In the end it wasn't about the Poet, or me or anyone. It was about a minute, five minutes, ten minutes in which she believed, with utter certainty, that she simply could not endure any more.' It seemed impossible, already, to have denied this truth for so long.
Kamila Shamsie
#69. 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.
Henri Nouwen
#70. There was no life Dennis burned to live except, it seemed, a life that wasn't depressed.
Meg Wolitzer
#71. You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Great Depression. What Obama inherited from the Bush administration, we all remember, was just an absolute global catastrophe.
Tony Kushner
#72. A radio was playing quietly. Nobody was listening. It was there to drown out the silence.
Rachel Abbott
#73. Avoidance therapy does not work. One major reason for that is because Avoidance Therapy (diversion, think yourself happy, positive affirmations) is predicated on the validity of 'Failure of Will.' Depression is not a choice.
Northern Adams
#74. According to Elizabeth Kubler Ross, there are fivestages of grief a person passes through after the death of aloved one: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
Colleen Hoover
#75. I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth.
Mason Cooley
#76. People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts; I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression.
Byron Katie
#77. When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in.
Charles Dickens
#78. Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.
Mitch Albom
#79. A woman who had fallen out of love with her life
Jhumpa Lahiri
#80. There will come a point when you tear up from the persistent acts of your enemies because you can actually feel the debilitating depression that must dwell within them.
Carl Henegan
#81. Sometimes I feel like all the crap in the world is building up inside me, like all the bad is just filling me like a balloon. I push it all back, live my happy life.
But sometimes that balloon exposed and all the crap lands on everything around me.
Keary Taylor
#82. Now there's some night terrors that happen in adults. And if it starts as an adult and you've never had them before, then there might be other things that are happening; it might be anxiety, depression, stress. And that's when you might have more of a thorough psychological evaluation.
Shelby Harris
#83. My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.
Sarah Lancashire
#84. Not a single rumor whispered on the wind here. He was too high up for such lowly experiences, too removed from the mundane and the pain. For these few blessed moments the rushing sensations blew away his controversial existence. And he smiled.
Jesikah Sundin
#86. Telling someone who procrastinates to buy a weekly planner is like telling someone with chronic depression to just cheer up.
Joseph R. Ferrari
#87. During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.
Maureen Corrigan
#88. My unhappiness precluded all else; unhappiness is a kind of narcissism, in which nothing that does not resonate with your unhappiness can interest you.
Caroline Kettlewell
#89. Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life.
Art Buchwald
#90. When inhibition has become the de facto setting in a person's manner, stiffness and lack of spontaneity produces an unnatural self-repression. Life looks gray, dull, and rigid, without space for relaxation or play to burst forth in natural ways.
Alexandra Katehakis
#91. Just as a stressful life can make you depressed, continuing exposure to stressors maintains depression.
Jonathan Rottenberg
#92. Nikolai's a badass Russian. Badass Russians only have three emotions: revenge, depression, and vodka.
Larry Correia
#93. Dear Depression, please keep your distance. Don't be nasty. Find some other person with more reason than me to look in the mirror and say: "What a pointless existence." Whether you like it or not, I know how to defeat you. You're wasting your time.
Paulo Coelho
#94. The lesson of the Funk Dog: You can forget what it used to feel like to feel good about life; feeling rotten - or just a low-grad funk - seems normal and therefore acceptable. I just don't believe that God intended for any of his creatures to be petted with sticks.
Jill Conner Browne
#95. Sometimes giving up feels like the easiest thing to do.
But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#96. I'm a walking economy. My hairline's in recession,my waist is a victim of inflation, and together they're putting me in a deep depression!
Anonymous
#97. Why can't I remember our family Christmas, or a warm spring day, or anything that might have been pleasant? It is as though the filter of recall is itself altered, so that it blocks out everything but the darkest colors of the spectrum.
Caroline Kettlewell
#98. I felt like I was a good woman, a good person. But I was sinking deeper and deeper into depression, because my soul wasn't living. I was purposely holding down my soul and my spirit. It was dying inside of me.
Evangeline Lilly
#99. I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
Christopher Hitchens
#100. Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.
Anthony Storr
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