Depression Quotes

If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.

Gayle Forman
Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.

Irving Kirsch
- Help
- Hope
- Depression

I started cooking out of middle school depression.

Zac Posen
We do have depression in the family, and I've experienced it as it pops up from time to time. It is easier to deal with when I have someone looking to me to do things.

Joanna Going
- Up
- Time
- Family
Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.

Andrew Solomon
- Real
- True
- Feels
During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.

Laird Barron
- Family
- Adolescence
- Dirt
In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.

Naomi Klein
- People
- Great
- Pain
Studies by many labs have already started to identify specific circuits of neurons involved in normal cognitive function like memory and learning, as well as disease processes such as Parkinson's disease, depression, and autism.

Feng Zhang
- Learning
- Memory
- Autism