Depression Quotes

• There were times when depression, anxiety, whatever, would keep me from writing. I still get depressed and anxious, but I just don't let it stop me. I've just learned to move it to one side if I want to work.

  

  David St. John
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Sides

• My parents had become adults during the Great Depression, as had many of my aunts and uncles, so I got stories from all of them. They are fastened up inside me, and now and again, they have to come out.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • Up
  • Great
  • Parents

• No one need punish me for any wrongs, real or imagined. I am very good at doing it all by myself. I have the scars to prove it.

  

  Katharine O'Shea
  • Real
  • Needs
  • Very

• Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

  

  William Styron
  • Experience
  • Pain
  • Natural

• They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come. When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun. It will just go black. It will just go back to the way it was before.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Black
  • Way
  • Sun

• It’s so difficult to describe [depression] to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling — that really hollowed-out feeling.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Cold

• The solution to depression, among other things, is to go within and see if you can tune into more of what might want to come forth out of you. Then take action to follow the path of what attracts you. Reach out, read a book, call a friend, join an organization. Go toward that which attracts you.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Friends
  • Action
  • Reach

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

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Sleep
  • Sad
  • Term

• There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad things like a cave full of monsters and so, you're afraid of entering it. It's just nothingness, the void, emptiness and it is just horrible. It's like contemplating a future-less future and so you just want to step out of it. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Black
  • Wall
  • Depression

• I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on.

  

  Ben Shahn
  • People
  • Trying
  • Depression

• Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one else can interfere with it.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Alone
  • Depression

• I feel so often that depression is a signal of more that wants to be expressed within you. There is an innate impulse in everyone to express more of who they truly are, and you get depressed when you don't feel you're able to do that.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Depression
  • Express
  • Impulse

• In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes left by President George W. Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Up
  • Great
  • Cleaning

• I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

  

  Marie Osmond
  • Women
  • Mother
  • Sad

• We certainly had an upheaval at the start of the Great Depression, and that resulted in a lot of financial reform, but it wasn't done in one stroke, and it wasn't done immediately. The Depression was in 1929 and resulted in the Securities and Exchange Act of '33, '34, '35, '37, '39, and '41.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • Great
  • Done
  • Financial

• Each individual we meet during the course of our day is at any given moment most likely emerging from a state of depression, is already in a state of depression or just about to enter a state of depression . A sensitive teacher always keeps in mind.

  

  Charley Johnson
  • Individual
  • Meet
  • Emerging

• If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Exercise
  • Helping
  • Found

• I've struggled with depression, and the signs that I was falling apart - having heart palpitations at 4 A.M. - were there for a long time before I paid attention. Even when my psychiatrist gave me a questionnaire, I found myself trying to circle the answers that made me seem like I wasn't a wreck. I've since learned to listen to my body.

  

  Allison Pearson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• It is problems that we faced for 30 years and we had to solve them in a couple of years only and the solution really pushed us and the economy couldn't handle it. We had the greatest depression. It wasn't easy and I think we expected the results. But the other thing is we have to try to create the plan B and get us out of this crisis as soon as possible.

  

  Eva Kaili
  • Problems
  • Economy
  • Crisis

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

  

  Art Alexakis
  • Life
  • Real
  • Dark

• Thanks to depression - that alpinism of the indolent - we scale every summit and daydream over every precipice from our bed.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Depression
  • Thanks

• I still get awful depression. It's who I am.

  

  Marian Keyes
  • Depression

• Who we were as personalities, or our emotional styles. In retrospect, I’ve come to think that mood and temperament, especially depression, not just the vagaries of career or accomplishment, in the long run shape friendships for better or worse.

  

  Nancy K. Miller
  • Depression
  • Accomplishment
  • Personalities

• 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.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • War
  • Depression
  • Cold War

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