Quotes About Depression

#1. Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy, Tipper Gore and Kitty Dukakis. Each made a tremendous difference by doing so.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#2. You want to keep the severity of our environmental problems in mind enough to keep yourself motivated but not enough to paralyze you into depression.

Sara Gilbert

#3. Sometimes you can incorporate things that you've experienced in your life and use that. And other times you know what that feeling is of hurt, of love, of anger, of depression, and you do whatever it takes to get there in your mind and use it to your advantage, whichever way it works best.

Dianna Agron

#4. Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.

Miriam Toews

#5. My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing [my mother] for something she couldn't help, specifically the crushing depression she fell into after my father's death. Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

Suzanne Collins

#6. In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.

S. Truett Cathy

#7. Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten.

Geoffrey Wood

#8. After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

Russ Carnahan

#9. Depression simply is. It has no beginning and no end, no boundaries and no world outside itself. It is the first, the last, the only, the alpha and the omega. Memories of better times die upon its desolate shores. Voices drown in its seas. The mind becomes its own prisoner.

Alexis Hall

#10. They really do a disservice because these men and women came out of the Depression, they came out of the war.

Richard M. Daley

#11. Depression exist without you knowing it, even denying it. It is not an illusion. You don't even know you're in it. It takes awhile before you realize it. If you deny it, it means your still in there or else you won't talk about your misery and the dramas in your life.

Ann Marie Aguilar

#12. Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.

Robin Marantz Henig

#13. But a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Jane Austen

#14. I am sure I have summer depression; the heat makes me instantly regret being alive.

Michelle Franklin

#15. The little depression I experienced during my manic-depression was not like depression as anyone else had ever described it. It was very violent and angry, and I was full of rage. I wasn't lying in bed.

Andy Behrman

#16. Trust me, you know when you've got depression.

Giles Andreae

#17. 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.

C.L.R. James

#18. My own work on depression demonstrated that men and women often have different symptoms, with males often becoming more irritable, angry, and aggressive when they are depressed, while women show the more inward symptoms such as sadness, helplessness, and hopelessness.

Jed Diamond

#19. Ince depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could "snap out of"-it would be like trying to snap out of a toothache.

Peter McWilliams

#20. You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's ... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you ...

Stephen Fry

#21. Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it.

Rees Howells

#22. 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.

Langston Hughes

#23. Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.

Charles Spurgeon

#24. We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children.

Robert Stack

#25. When you try hard to get something, but you gain nothing, this is what's called depression.

Al-Hanouf Halawi

#26. I followed the course
From chaos to art
Desire the horse
Depression the cart

Leonard Cohen

#27. Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.

Paulo Coelho

#28. The people who succeed despite depression do three things. First, they seek an understanding of what's happening. They they accept that this is a permanent situation. And then they have to transcend their experience and grow from it and put themselves out into the world of real people.

Andrew Solomon

#29. There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

Winona Ryder

#30. If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

Brene Brown

#31. Depression is melancholy minus its charms.

Susan Sontag

#32. At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.

Robert Carlyle

#33. You are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression ...

John Geddes

#34. Came of age in the Great Depression, when economic despair hovered over

Tom Brokaw

#35. Burns notes the catch-22 nature of depression: The worse we feel, the more distorted our thoughts become, and this thinking plunges us even lower into black feelings about ourselves. Nearly

Tom Butler-Bowdon

#36. The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine.

Amity Shlaes

#37. Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.

Ben Bernanke

#38. Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.

Robert M. Sapolsky

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

Marian Keyes

#40. I would prefer to die than to be depressed for depression can hurt you everyday and it'll last for a lifetime while on dying, you can only feel pain the moment you'll die.

Cedric Go

#41. periodic bouts of depression. Some of these episodes were brought on by his family's

Kai Bird

#42. A sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. It soon flies over the present failure, and begins to

Jane Austen

#43. Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

Joyce Meyer

#44. Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success!

Phil Heath

#45. As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

Sargent Shriver

#46. I realized that I had a serious problem with depression, and I went to a doctor and he gave me some medication.

Donna Summer

#47. When you look at a person, any person, everyone has a story. Everyone has gone through something that has changed their life. Anxiety, depression and panic attacks are not signs of weakness. They are signs of trying to remain strong for way too long.

Deepika Padukone

#48. I have a master's in psychology, and depression and anxiety are considered to be cyclical.

Autre Ne Veut

#49. If depression has taught me one thing, it is this: what a rare and beautiful treasure is the simple human gift of joy. For me now, joy - our capacity to delight in one another and in the world - is the reason why we are here. It is as simple as that. And I feel compelled to spread the word.

Giles Andreae

#50. I know of no severe depression, in any country or any time, that was not accompanied by a sharp decline in the stock of money, and equally of no sharp decline in the stock of money that was not accompanied by a severe depression.

Milton Friedman

#51. Depression is possessed by Gravity whereas A deep aspiration fueled by Will can defy any Gravity ...

Dinesh Kumar

#52. You may feel depressed, but it can't be so depressing that you can't move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they are elated about expressing their depression!

Aaron Copland

#53. Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as 'chemical imbalances in the brain,' as if spontaneous neural events with no relation to anything outside a person's brain cause depression and anxiety.

Siri Hustvedt

#54. History gets named afterwards: The Age of Enlightenment, the Depression. Which is not to say that people sometimes aren't depressed with all the enlightenment around them, or strangely elevated during otherwise grey times.

Terry Pratchett

#55. Nothing mitigates the throes of depression like a steaming plate of spaghetti and meatballs with marinara sauce and grated parmasan cheese, with a good fresh bread to wipe up.

Paul Clayton

#56. All my life I've felt different to most. This has caused me anxiety and depression over the years. It took being diagnosed at age 36 to make my life finally make sense. I fit in somewhere now. I feel like I'm not a wrong neurotypical. I'm a complete autistic

Tina J. Richardson

#57. Depression is very real. It'll back you into a dark room, slap you across the face, spit in your eyes, scream in your ears, and punch you in the gut - Until you give in.

Anonymous

#58. Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

P. J. O'Rourke

#59. To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem.

Michael Hudson

#60. 'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our Great Recession as vividly as a far more dour Hollywood product of 70 years ago, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' did the vastly different landscape of the Great Depression.

Frank Rich

#61. Depression is like ... when you don't want cheese anymore. Even though it's cheese.

Jenny Lawson

#62. What I find so interesting is, Herbert Hoover in August 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty than the United States. And then, of course, we had the Great Depression.

Robert Dallek

#63. Hang me upside-down and fuck me in both ears. You pulled yourself out of a clinical depression by being a freaking hero.

David Foster Wallace

#64. [God] wants to help you overcome the bitterness and anger that you feel, and He wants to encourage you ... He knows that anger and depression will never help you deal with your problems - they only make them worse.

Billy Graham

#65. Franklin D. Roosevelt was fortunate: He didn't take office until nearly four years after the Wall Street crash, by which time the Republicans' responsibility for the Depression was taken for granted.

Tina Brown

#66. The Great Depression in the 1930s turned many young people away from corporations towards communism. By contrast, the Great Recession in the first decade of this century seems to have turned many away from corporations towards entrepreneurship.

Ron Davison

#67. There are plenty of studies that have shown that depression is associated with decreased immunity. So I want to harness all of the positive emotional energy I can in a patient to get better.

Allan Hamilton

#68. I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.

Ben Bernanke

#69. 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.

Jimmy Hoffa

#70. Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.

Henry Rollins

#71. When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.

Claire Tomalin

#72. Because if I smashed anything, Team Jaiden would just get me into a behavior modification program, or maybe some doctor would put be on drugs for my ADD or bipolarism or depression or whatever they're calling being alive and feeling royally screwed these days.

Stefan Petrucha

#73. Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home.

Shawn Amos

#74. I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression.

Sebastian Faulks

#75. Depression only happens to people who don't know how to be sad.

Gregory David Roberts

#76. Brown argues that play is not an option. In fact he writes, The opposite of play is not work - the opposite of play is depression.

Brene Brown

#77. Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold.

Mitch Albom

#78. I used to feel a lot of guilt about having depression but then I realized that's a lot like feeling guilty for having brown hair.

Jenny Lawson

#79. Life without knowing your destiny leads to "rat races", depression and frustration, and attempt to commit suicide

Sunday Adelaja

#80. I hide myself behind, a cloud of smoke; the smoke screen varies, dependent on the variable. The variable consists of: stress, anguish, boredom, madness, anger, depression, apathy, negativity, sex, violence & a little chunk of chaos.

Emily H. Sturgill

#81. I know I need to stay strong, but just like rust can weaken even the strongest of metals, depression can weaken even the strongest of people.

Kathryn Perez

#82. your ego is nothing but a mean and cruel deceptive little freak living inside your head that will never bring joy and happiness to your life. What that ego will bring is frustration, depression, manipulation, and fear.

Tony Horton

#83. One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

Polly Toynbee

#84. This particularly tends to happen with depression and anxiety. With anxiety you tend to get hooked by stories about the future, about things that might go wrong and how badly you're sure to handle them.

Russ Harris

#85. You can disappear inside of yourself and become an empty shell with depression in mind. It's that feeling of being invisible. Sometimes when I wake up I don't feel like my head is attached to my body - there's nothing.

Elena Tonra

#86. Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

Herbert Hoover

#87. It seems, in theory, that I should be able to control at least a few of my bad habits. The problem is that my habits make me depressed, and the depression makes me want to indulge my habits and so I do. There isn't any solution to this.

John S. Hall

#88. The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.

Andrew Weil

#89. When you talk about an injury and the kind of depression you go through, it's not just because you're out of shape and you can't go out and play. You're missing a part of you. That's what's painful. That's what hurts.

Jamila Wideman

#90. Non-expectation, non-acceptance because the expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.

Anthony Hopkins

#91. I reel in an uncanny intoxication of emotions, on minute bewildered and then frightened then the next, I swing from exhaustion to mania, from depression to tranquility and beneath it all, excitement fizzes as if my blood is filled with gas.

Patricia Cornwell

#92. I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.

Andy Behrman

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

Jeff Buckley

#94. Love is not an antidote of depression or loneliness, but it itself is a cause of depression and loneliness.

Raj Singh

#95. 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.

P. J. O'Rourke

#96. I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.

Temple Grandin

#97. In depression, buy gas balloons; they would make you feel lighter.

Vikrmn

#98. Depression and despair accompanied the physical symptoms, and before the end death is seen seated on the face.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#99. I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety ... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff.

Art Alexakis

#100. Depression feels a bit like that, it creeps in on you and settles, until you think it'll never lift, but in time it always does. That's why it's so tragic if people don't reach out to anyone when they feel low, because if they do, the mist will usually lift in the end.

Sita Brahmachari