Depression Quotes

• The experiences of the years...have brought the country, particularly its young people, to a mood of depression, disillusion, and withdrawal from the effort to affect the world.

  

  Dean Acheson
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.

  

  Arthur Henderson
  • World
  • Why
  • Political

• In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame because I just decided to be happy.

  

  Lilly Singh
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Depression

• I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Forget
  • Mad

• I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that's it. I'm over it now.

  

  Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
  • Depression
  • Awful
  • Dreadful

• For me, depression is very much tied to my feeling that so much is being asked of me. I have to 'perform' rather than necessarily be myself. I have to perform a perfect Margo Jefferson, at an impossibly high level.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • High
  • Feeling
  • Perfect

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

  

  Marian Keyes
  • Depression

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

  

  Art Alexakis
  • Life
  • Real
  • Dark

• 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

• A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

  

  Janet Fitch
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're getting a consensus around what needs to be done.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Great
  • Thinking

• 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

• When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • Depression
  • Lazy

• 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

• 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

• In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it.

  

  Lawrence Welk
  • Time
  • Good
  • Depression

• By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Depression

• 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

• Home sales are coming down from the mountain peak, but they will level out at a high plateau - a plateau that is higher than previous peaks in the housing cycle.

  

  David Lereah
  • Home
  • Mountain
  • Cycles

• Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

  

  William Gibson
  • Life
  • Funny
  • inspirational

• 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

• 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

• Perspective is the cure for depression.

  

  Bono U2
  • Perspective
  • Depression
  • Cure

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