Childhood Depression Quotes

#1. Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.

Robert Winston

#2. The increasingly thoughtful child can see the whole horribly upset world and would be understandably totally bewildered and deeply troubled by it

Jeremy Griffith

#3. Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same.

Alison Espach

#4. 'Not spoiling' a child means trying to break that child's spirit.

Dorothy Rowe

#5. Bouncing on beds, I remember from childhood, is a great depression reliever.

Robert M. Pirsig

#6. I realize now that no simple, single-factor theory of depression will ever work. Depression is partly in our genes, partly in our childhood experience, partly in our way of thinking, partly in our brains, partly in our ways of handling emotions. It affects our whole being.

Richard O'Connor

#7. For if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.

Dorothy Rowe

#8. I wept for relationships not possible due to denial and dreams locked in the back of people's minds, all of the bits of life that lay dormant until the babblings of televisions and nursing homes sweep them away. It makes me wonder how many of the dreams we had originally have already been forgotten.

Christopher Hawke

#9. It's amazing the things that the heart and mind can endure. No one ever told me that growing up, so I often spent my childhood thinking something was wrong with me.

Yassin Hall

#10. I don't want to have my face on the cover of a Wheaties box. I wanna have my face on the cover of a Rice Krispies box. "Snap, Krackle, Mitch and Pop"!

Mitch Hedberg

#11. We are all privately agreed that it is better in books

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. Consistently delivering on your promise value reinforces trust.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#13. The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

Wallace Stevens

#14. And I served as an officer in the army."
"Very impressive. I've been told that war is boredom interspersed with violence and terror.

Julie Anne Long

#15. I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid.

Alison Brie

#16. I'm not a huge Lovecraft fan as far as that goes; I think there are some stories of his that are really quite wonderful, but for the most part, I have great difficulties with his prose - and the more you know about the man, the harder it is to separate him from the work in many ways.

Greg Rucka

#17. The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.

Clive Barker

#18. The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is, to think analogically.

J.M. Coetzee

#19. When a child receives the message, even subtly or indirectly, that his emotions don't matter, he will grow up feeling, somewhere deep inside, that he himself doesn't matter.

Jonice Webb

#20. Misery is a scar on the soul, that if it begins in childhood, it lasts the whole lifetime. I understand that no two scars are alike, but I also ask myself; even if these scars are not alike, aren't these things engraved on our souls signed by which we know each other?Aren't we also alike?

Bahaa Taher

#21. Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic experiences from childhood and later in life.

Jed Diamond

#22. [T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government ... and I am persuaded that no civil government of a republican form can exist and be durable in which the principles of that religion have not a controlling influence.

Noah Webster

#23. I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.

Michael Ian Black

#24. One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever took his sister's likeness.

Jill Lepore

#25. I've missed this," he said with a groan. "The way you fuck yourself against my face.

Elle Aycart

#26. The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde.

Ed Benguiat

#27. To me the early childhood story is an ecumenical one. You take poverty seriously. You take seriously maternal depression. You take seriously children under stress and you take seriously the effects of extended hours participation in poor quality care. Those are the facts I begin with.

Robert Manne

#28. Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.

Said Sayrafiezadeh