Quotes about Depression

Depression is a physical illness. Votes: 5

Depression is the inability to construct a future. Votes: 5

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic. Votes: 5

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement. Votes: 5

Depression is pain in its purest form. Votes: 4

Depression is the reward we get for being 'good'. Votes: 4

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling Votes: 4

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. Votes: 4

Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick. Votes: 4

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. Votes: 4

Depression is inertia. Votes: 3

Depression starts slow. Votes: 3

Stay strong. Depression lies. Votes: 3

Depression is anger turned inward. Votes: 3

Depression is sadness gone wrong Votes: 3

Depression/The assassin inside me Votes: 3

Depression is rage spread thin. Votes: 3

Depression is always in the details. Votes: 3

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. Votes: 3

Depression...so mysteriously painful and elusive... Votes: 3

I'm what you call a Depression sailor. Votes: 3

Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion. Votes: 3

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself. Votes: 3

Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone. Votes: 3

Depression is the most extreme form of vanity. Votes: 3

Depression manifests itself in a lack of will. Votes: 3

Depression is an imagery of our heart's sickness. Votes: 3

Depression is something that makes you lose your sight. Votes: 3

Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth. Votes: 3

Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland. Votes: 3

Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been. Votes: 3

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind. Votes: 3

Depression means that you have no point of view. Votes: 3

In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage. Votes: 3

Depressions aren't good but the depression mentality is good. Votes: 3

I grew up in the heart of the Depression. Votes: 3

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury. Votes: 3

The weather of Depression is unmodulated, its light a brownout. Votes: 3

Depression catches everyone who lives long enough to be caught. Votes: 3

Depression will always follow any decision to avoid a priority. Votes: 3

Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up. Votes: 3

Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human. Votes: 3

How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression? Votes: 3

Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease. Votes: 3

Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really). Votes: 3

Depression is something I've dealt with every day of my life. Votes: 3

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. Votes: 3

I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally. Votes: 3

Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook. Votes: 3

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time. Votes: 3

I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount. Votes: 3

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking. Votes: 3

Depression is an illness and not a necessary part of healthy living. Votes: 3

Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner. Votes: 3

Jealousy. Depression. Love. They pretty much demonstrate the whole range of human emotion. Votes: 3

Depression and Drama. What a Deadly Drink to Give to My Suicidal Spirit. Votes: 3

The Depression did more to me than being a little Lebanese kid did. Votes: 3

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. Votes: 3

The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money. Votes: 3

Depression doesn't take away your talents - it just makes them harder to find. Votes: 3

Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now. Votes: 3

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again. Votes: 3

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again. Votes: 3

It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know. Votes: 3

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. Votes: 3

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary. Votes: 3

Depression is very bad illness. This will be the toughest fight of my life. Votes: 3

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money. Votes: 3

Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside. Votes: 3

Depression is like slashing at ghosts. Of course it's tempting to finally cut something real. Votes: 3

The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself. Votes: 3

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer. Votes: 3

Well, I never lived through the Great Depression, sometimes I feel as though I did. Votes: 3

Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect. Votes: 3

depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. Votes: 3

In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it. Votes: 3

Depression is like war. You either win or you die trying. There's no in between. Votes: 3

Depression makes me hate the world, but it gives me a million things to think. Votes: 3

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. Votes: 3

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action. Votes: 3

Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration. Votes: 3

September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression, Votes: 3

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression. Votes: 3

Depression does tremendous damage. Use every ploy you can think of to bring yourself to joy. Votes: 3

This may surprise you, but there were a large number of valuable buys during the Depression. Votes: 3

It was so dry in Saskatchewan during the Depression that the trees were chasing the dogs. Votes: 3

I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression. Votes: 3

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. Votes: 3

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Votes: 3

Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore. Votes: 3

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself. You're probably doing things you don't want to do. Votes: 3

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles. Votes: 3

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it. Votes: 3

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression. Votes: 3

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression] Votes: 3

We were just emerging from the Depression. Superman started in 1938. Batman started in 1939. So, we were just recovering. Votes: 3

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating. Votes: 3

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. Votes: 3

Depression is a prison to which you have the key except you never think to look for it. Votes: 3

Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst. Votes: 3

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. Votes: 3

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem. Votes: 3

Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave. Votes: 3

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps. Votes: 3

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years. Votes: 3

Victimhood and a 'can't do' spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression. Votes: 3

Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression. Votes: 3

It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered. Votes: 3

Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society. Votes: 3

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames. Votes: 3

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one. Votes: 3

One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job. Votes: 3

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. Votes: 3

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression. Votes: 3

Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly. Votes: 3

After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression. Votes: 3

My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home. Votes: 3

I admire President Obama. He inherited the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. That was a terrible time for America. Votes: 3

I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history. Votes: 3

The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression. Votes: 3

We have the worst revival of an economy since the Great Depression. And believe me: We're in a bubble right now. Votes: 3

I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression. Votes: 3

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well. Votes: 3

During the Depression years, I began to identify to some extent with the unemployed, the organization for the unemployed at that period. Votes: 3

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his. Votes: 3

Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all. Votes: 3

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks. Votes: 3

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. Votes: 3

Depression effects all of us in different ways, people even kill themselves, but why? You gain no satisfaction and you ruin people's lives. Votes: 3

But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression. Votes: 3

Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity. Votes: 3

It is reported that about 30% of the world's population is unemployed. That's worse than the Great Depression, but it's now an international phenomenon. Votes: 3

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13. Votes: 3

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio. Votes: 3

I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that. Votes: 3

Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race. Votes: 3

Don't waste your love on stupid people. Anyone stupid enough to deny or reject it-in the midst of the Love Depression we're in-does not deserve it. Votes: 3

People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their social views. Votes: 3

Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull 'em up. Choose joy. Votes: 3

Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do. Votes: 3

Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low. Votes: 3

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth. Votes: 3

A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed. It doesn't move on its own. Sometimes it takes A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving. Votes: 3

Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action. Votes: 3

The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes Votes: 3

When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work. Votes: 3

The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes. Votes: 3

My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression. Votes: 3

Depression is something that has always figured in my life but now I'm dealing with it. I wish I'd done this years ago because it's been really helpful. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and the spirit of speculation among the people. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Depression is a choice. Votes: 2

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Votes: 2

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits." Votes: 2

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. Votes: 2

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle. Votes: 2

Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it. Votes: 2

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful. Votes: 2

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence. Votes: 2

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it. Votes: 2

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. Votes: 2

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. Votes: 2

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. Votes: 2

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. Votes: 2

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. Votes: 2

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. Votes: 2

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. Votes: 2

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly. Votes: 2

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Votes: 2

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though. Votes: 2

On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression. Votes: 2

If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so sad. We know what to do. We just don't do it. Votes: 2

The mental health conversation is very important to me. I have friends that struggle with various mental illnesses. I've struggled with depression and anxiety. I'm very interested in how we deal with that. Votes: 2

I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while. Votes: 2

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression. Votes: 2

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it. Votes: 2

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. Votes: 2

I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist well versed in using lithium and knowledgeable about my illness, and who was also an excellent psychotherapist. Votes: 2

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. Votes: 2

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. Votes: 2

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. Votes: 2

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key. Votes: 2

If you don't think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days. Votes: 2

Through the healing process of time-and through medical intervention or hospitalization in many cases-most people survive depression which may be its only blessing; but to the tragic legion who are compelled to destroy themselves there should be no more reproof attached than to the victims of terminal cancer. Votes: 2

The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive. Votes: 2

The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief. Votes: 2

There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning. Votes: 2

Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful. There is nothing I can think of that is quite as isolating as this. Votes: 2

Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different. Votes: 2

When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent. Votes: 2

I'm stressing deep, even in my sleep. Votes: 1

Without music, life would be a mistake. Votes: 1

I don't care Go on and tear me apart I don't care if you do. Votes: 1

Never be ashamed about being broken, because strength is nothing but pain that's been repaired. Votes: 1

Time on my hands since you been away boy I ain't got no plans, no no no no. Votes: 1

Tired of feeling lost, tired of letting go Tear the whole world down, tear the whole world down Failure. Votes: 1

She said.. I'll do anything to make myself feel pretty again Cause you scarred me and made me forget I was pretty within. Votes: 1

Develop a depression. Votes: 0

Nothing good comes out of depression. Votes: 0

Comedy is a camouflage for depression. Votes: 0

Manic depression is a frustratin' mess. Votes: 0

Perspective is the cure for depression. Votes: 0

Work is always an antidote to depression. Votes: 0

All monsters have their fits of depression. Votes: 0

Impression minus expression leads to spiritual depression. Votes: 0

Creative people are more prone to depression. Votes: 0

Nothing is quite as depressing as depression. Votes: 0

I lost everything in the post-natal depression. Votes: 0

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting Votes: 0

We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity. Votes: 0

Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television. Votes: 0

Things like depression and obesity are global challenges. Votes: 0

A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism. Votes: 0

I started cooking out of middle school depression. Votes: 0

Trust me, you know when you've got depression. Votes: 0

Becoming active is the key remedy for depression. Votes: 0

I think I suffer from some mild depression. Votes: 0

Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally. Votes: 0

I've known elephants with broken hearts, others with depression. Votes: 0

Eating, drinking, and depression disorders are really thinking disorders. Votes: 0

The opposite of play is not work. It's depression. Votes: 0

I still get awful depression. It's who I am. Votes: 0

The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement. Votes: 0

I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression. Votes: 0

The rosary is a weapon against depression and hopelessness. Votes: 0

I had a lot of depression as a kid. Votes: 0

[The blues] is the antidote for sadness and depression. Votes: 0

To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins. Votes: 0

My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression. Votes: 0

I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression. Votes: 0

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Votes: 0

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression. Votes: 0

We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression. Votes: 0

I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you? Votes: 0

How can depression be real if our eyes arent real? Votes: 0

You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity. Votes: 0

I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth. Votes: 0

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. Votes: 0

You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession. Votes: 0

Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design. Votes: 0

I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression. Votes: 0

Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself. Votes: 0

We're in a political depression - a great political depression Votes: 0

I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself. Votes: 0

Most people live somewhere on the spectrum of anxiety and depression. Votes: 0

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Votes: 0

Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions. Votes: 0

Perhaps depression is a perfectly natural reaction to the human condition. Votes: 0

Conscious breathing is the best antidote to stress, anxiety and depression. Votes: 0

Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual. Votes: 0

I don't see any significant recession or depression in the offing. Votes: 0

You can have manic depression without having an ounce of creativity Votes: 0

Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst. Votes: 0

I'd like to see a slasher movie set in the depression. Votes: 0

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. Votes: 0

I was in a self-induced depression. Welcome to me Real World. Votes: 0

If you raise taxes during a recession, you head to depression. Votes: 0

Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.' Votes: 0

Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche. Votes: 0

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression. Votes: 0

The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls. Votes: 0

Why is depression the blues and not the grays? - Because racecar! Votes: 0

Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression? Votes: 0

At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together. Votes: 0

Anxiety and depression are the price you pay for a well-lived life. Votes: 0

Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Votes: 0

The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed. Votes: 0

Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression. Votes: 0

Inferiority complex is a gold plated highway to the throne of depression Votes: 0

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. Votes: 0

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression. Votes: 0

I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat. Votes: 0

Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over. Votes: 0

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope. Votes: 0

At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness. Votes: 0

We face a far greater risk of psychological depression than of economic recession. Votes: 0

The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression. Votes: 0

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting. Votes: 0

Rapid increases in the quantity of money produce inflation. Sharp decreases produce depression. Votes: 0

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm. Votes: 0

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal. Votes: 0

creative people always suffer from depression because we're so super sensitive and special? Votes: 0

The way out of the depression is to start spending and doing things. Votes: 0

After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart. Votes: 0

I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life. Votes: 0

The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression. Votes: 0

No one has a corner on depression, but housewives are working on it. Votes: 0

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual. Votes: 0

The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem. Votes: 0

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward. Votes: 0

Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression. Votes: 0

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness. Votes: 0

Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression. Votes: 0

When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression. Votes: 0

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us. Votes: 0

That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden Votes: 0

Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression. Votes: 0

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure. Votes: 0

It's very important to distinguish between chemical depression that requires medication and talk therapy. Votes: 0

I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse. Votes: 0

What people never understand is that depression isn't about the outside; it's about the inside. Votes: 0

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with. Votes: 0

We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression. Votes: 0

Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression. Votes: 0

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. Votes: 0

The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression. Votes: 0

In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment. Votes: 0

Non-expectation, non-acceptance because the expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations. Votes: 0

Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself. Votes: 0

Just saying no prevents teenage pregnancy the way 'Have a nice day' cures chronic depression. Votes: 0

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. Votes: 0

Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy. Votes: 0

I have a master's in psychology, and depression and anxiety are considered to be cyclical. Votes: 0

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it. Votes: 0

If this depression stays with us, the loser Tuesday is going to be the winner. Votes: 0

Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business. Votes: 0

The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them. Votes: 0

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow. Votes: 0

Ben didn't want to lose money. He had had a rough time during the depression. Votes: 0

I've never had a single moment of depression, because I know my cause will triumph. Votes: 0

To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. Votes: 0

It was impossible to sleep. Anxiety stopped me from falling asleep; depression woke me up. Votes: 0

Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression. Votes: 0

In my experience the best way to beat depression is to get involved in something inspiring. Votes: 0

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Votes: 0

That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues. Votes: 0

Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy. Votes: 0

It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep. Votes: 0

They say that depression is anger you turn on yourself, and I think women do that. Votes: 0

I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal. Votes: 0

My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films. Votes: 0

I have started down the avenue of death and depression of a new kind of flatmate. Votes: 0

Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives. Votes: 0

At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean. Votes: 0

This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you're rocking Votes: 0

Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy." Votes: 0

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. Votes: 0

Mania is fun. I won't lie, it's fun. But it's usually followed by a soul-crushing depression. Votes: 0

I always wanted to see people's lives transformed from depression and anxiety to joy and peace. Votes: 0

I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it. Votes: 0

Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments. Votes: 0

To measur whether it is humility or depression, check whether you are advancing spiritually or going down. Votes: 0

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. Votes: 0

Happiness is the most important thing in the world, without it, you live a life of depression. Votes: 0

I do find working with people in the entertainment industry hard. It can cause anxiety and depression. Votes: 0

Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering. Votes: 0

No man bears more responsibility for the present worldwide financial crisis and coming depression than Alan Greenspan. Votes: 0

My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire. Votes: 0

Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous. Votes: 0

These are days of special perplexity and depression, and the path of public duty is unusually rugged. Votes: 0

The simple solution for disappointment depression Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going. Votes: 0

There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors. Votes: 0

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression. Votes: 0

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism. Votes: 0

I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me. Votes: 0

You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you. Votes: 0

Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective. Votes: 0

I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff. Votes: 0

In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer. Votes: 0

During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses. Votes: 0

And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito. Votes: 0

The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again. Votes: 0

There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression. Votes: 0

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously. Votes: 0

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do. Votes: 0

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression. Votes: 0

My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure. Votes: 0

The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negro had but few pegs to fall. Votes: 0

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible. Votes: 0

I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out. Votes: 0

I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn't exist anymore. Votes: 0

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war. Votes: 0

He who hasn't experienced a full depression alone and over a long period of time--he is a child. Votes: 0

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope. Votes: 0

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does. Votes: 0

My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV. Votes: 0

We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong! Votes: 0

The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Votes: 0

I'm constantly having doubts and moments of depression and then excitement and then back into the slough of despond. Votes: 0

Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through. Votes: 0

Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder. Votes: 0

Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times. Votes: 0

People with depression have something very valuable to teach us... how to live when it doesn't ever feel good. Votes: 0

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. Votes: 0

Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? Votes: 0

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression. Votes: 0

I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers. Votes: 0

My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well. Votes: 0

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff. Votes: 0

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself Votes: 0

Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, and colon and rectal cancers. Votes: 0

In 1945 music had a serious purpose; to defy post war depression & revitalize the romantic & hopeful aspirations of an exhausted ppl. Votes: 0

A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use. Votes: 0

Even if consumer confidence hit rock bottom, that most likely would not be enough, by itself, to cause a depression. Votes: 0

The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings. Votes: 0

If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people. Votes: 0

It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression. Votes: 0

It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body. Votes: 0

Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not. Votes: 0

There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life. Votes: 0

I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?' 'Snap out of it! Five cents, please. Votes: 0

The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be Votes: 0

It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression. Votes: 0

The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind. Votes: 0

In my experience, depression was not something that has been cured so much as managed, like a lot of illnesses. Votes: 0

To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression. Votes: 0

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. Votes: 0

Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health. Votes: 0

I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide. Votes: 0

I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me. Votes: 0

Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it. Votes: 0

Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it. Votes: 0

The more these readjustments are delayed ... the longer the depression will have to last, and the longer complete recovery is postponed. Votes: 0

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression. Votes: 0

Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication. Votes: 0

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope. Votes: 0

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat. Votes: 0

I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life. Votes: 0

Do I wish I had never endured postpartum depression? Absolutely. But to deny the experience is to deny who I am. Votes: 0

Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet. Votes: 0

Even in the worst depression, 25% of businesses are booming - in your industry find out what they're doing and do it. Votes: 0

You are no more at fault for having depression than if you had asthma, diabetes, heart disease, or any other illness. Votes: 0

These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are. Votes: 0

Colors are important. People are in clinical depression whether they are on medication or not. Neutrals are another form of medication. Votes: 0

As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression. Votes: 0

A lot of people have so many issues like depression, obesity or chronic illness that has to do with gut health. Votes: 0

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently. Votes: 0

I always thought I was depressive, and I only recently realized that I have more of an anxiety disorder than chronic depression. Votes: 0

There are seminars that teach us how to cope with depression, sickness and relationship break down. But God wants us to overcome. Votes: 0

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer Votes: 0

We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. Votes: 0

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel. Votes: 0

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression. Votes: 0

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. Votes: 0

I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself. Votes: 0

I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul. Votes: 0

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth. Votes: 0

My depression was mild, and I could treat it by myself and pick myself up again. But some people aren't that lucky. Votes: 0

I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird. Votes: 0

I realized that I had a serious problem with depression, and I went to a doctor and he gave me some medication. Votes: 0

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression. Votes: 0

Anger is remembered pain, fear is anticipated pain, guilt is self directed pain, depression is depletion of energy. Cure-return to love& joy Votes: 0

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit. Votes: 0

I will do my best to dodge tonight's depression Hide in sleep Damage myself in dreams Wake up older, slightly more used. Votes: 0

You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears. Votes: 0

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Votes: 0

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable. Votes: 0

My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination. Votes: 0

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself. Votes: 0

Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression. Votes: 0

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression. Votes: 0

Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression. Votes: 0

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real. Votes: 0

They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression. Votes: 0

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment. Votes: 0

Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten. Votes: 0

Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump. Votes: 0

In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief and they really need to be treated for depression. Votes: 0

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness. Votes: 0

When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account... Votes: 0

It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression. Votes: 0

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened. Votes: 0

Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression. Votes: 0

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed. Votes: 0

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression. Votes: 0

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency. Votes: 0

Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression. Votes: 0

Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love. Votes: 0

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. Votes: 0

To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about. Votes: 0

My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression! Votes: 0

I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair. Votes: 0

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. Votes: 0

I'm not a stranger to depression and desperation. I can be kind of tortured but I do like to have a lot of fun. Votes: 0

In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge of self. Votes: 0

I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family. Votes: 0

As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it. Votes: 0

I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression. Votes: 0

Anxiety, depression, and suicide don't discriminate based on how much money you have - though it might make it easier for you to get help. Votes: 0

For my money, insecurity, depression, etc, can be healed by way of El Morocco, sad songs at 4am, and the pop of a champagne cork Votes: 0

There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of. Votes: 0

weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. Votes: 0

I want to help people with depression understand that there is hope, so that they can get the help they need to live rich, fulfilling lives. Votes: 0

I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better. Votes: 0

It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel. Votes: 0

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you. Votes: 0

I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off. Votes: 0

I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2? Votes: 0

It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of the depression. Votes: 0

I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2. Votes: 0

all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is no perfect solution to depression, nor should there be. And odd as this may sound we should be glad of that. It keeps us human. Votes: 0

Please, people, do not f- with depression. It's merciless. All it wants is to get you in a room alone and kill you. Take care of yourself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0