Depression Quotes

• People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison
  • People
  • Depression
  • Grief

• I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.

  

  Jennifer Ellison
  • People
  • Depression

• You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Life
  • Firsts
  • Nails

• 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

• Researchers consistently find that most older volunteers, when compared to older nonvolunteers, have fewer functional and physical impairments, overall better health, higher life satisfaction and less depression. In addition, they attend religious services more frequently and belong to more social organizations.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Life
  • Health
  • Religious

• 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

• Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and all-consuming and really hurts.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Interesting
  • Personality
  • Depression

• 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

• What produced this divine serenity, subject to no moods, clouded by no depression, this perpetual Sunday of the heart? It was not merely good nature, not the accident of a happy organization. It was deeper than that. It was the perfect poise resulting from a Christian experience. It was the habit of looking to God in love and to man in love.

  

  James Freeman Clarke
  • Good
  • God
  • Heart

• If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don't mind living in that state, but I don't want to be there anymore. I don't want to live in a state of depression.

  

  Alan Arkin
  • People
  • Live
  • Mind

• I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Life
  • True
  • Feeling

• My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

  

  Patty Duke
  • Depression
  • Miracle
  • Recovery

• I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Depression
  • Mental Illness

• In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Different
  • American
  • Lost

• No matter where you are, depression responds to the same treatment.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Matter
  • Same
  • Depression

• I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Mother`s

• Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Loss
  • Despair
  • Intimacy

• We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Love
  • Mother

• In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • Depression

• 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

• Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • World
  • Great
  • Long

• 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
  • War
  • Future
  • House

• ... my mind lay limp in an empty world.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • World
  • Mind
  • Depression

• The struggle these veterans face receiving adequate care for PTSD and depression is a tragedy that needs to be addressed, which is why I cosponsored the Clay Hunt SAV Act.

  

  John Delaney
  • Why
  • Struggle
  • Depression

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