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Depression is a prison to which you have the key except you never think to look for it. — Kevin Hearne

The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression. — Ben Bernanke

In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge of self. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

We are a gutted generation, born in the depression and obsessed with prosperity. — Paddy Chayefsky

Depression is the inability to construct a future. — Rollo May

That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden — Peter McWilliams

Negative thoughts are the causes of all depression and all stress.
Be positive; never infect your mind with negative thoughts. — Debasish Mridha

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism. — Abraham Maslow

Rebuilding of the self in and after depression requires love, insight, work, and, most of all, time. — Andrew Solomon

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one. — Jerry Stiller

The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still. — Helen Macdonald

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. — Buzz Aldrin

The increasingly thoughtful child can see the whole horribly upset world and would be understandably totally bewildered and deeply troubled by it — Jeremy Griffith

A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money. — Sylvia Plath

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity. — Aleksandar Hemon

I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself. — Sinead O'Connor

It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.
It made me tired just to think of it. — Sylvia Plath

Indeed, depression changes the world itself and not just in the way the person views it. — David B. Biebel

He didn't like having to start the fire again, that was the source of this small sadness. You get tired of these endless beginnings. — Denis Johnson

He says the blues can't drive depression clear out of a house, but they can drive it into the corners of any room where they are being played. — Kurt Vonnegut

Hiding and waiting
For the worst
Or the end — Kim Holden

Dealing with depression isn't about trying to run away from the feeling; it's about learning to walk alongside it. — Hannah Hart

I want to sleep in the oven
because I just burn in the bed. — Casey Renee Kiser

It's what we do, we continue on. Yet, what is the point?
There is nothing ahead of us when there is nothing left of us. — D.R. Hedge

After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression. — Dave Barry

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 — Elaine Stritch

Now, the separation between depression and suicide is more crevasse than chasm. — Chris Bohjalian

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. — Robert McKee

Writing is the best anti-depressant. — Fierce Dolan

As to whether the depression will come back, it is every depressive's fear. — Sally Brampton

I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally. — Zooey Deschanel

Oh she's alright it's just that - I don't want to get mixed up with anyone in the house. I don't want to get mixed up at all with anybody anymore. — Lynne Reid Banks

What we have now, shall never be again. The poets of the past sit in amazement of the wanna-be's of an era long gone. — T. Grassan

Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it. — Marian Keyes

We fall. We get back up. We kick. We push. Again and again. Because the joy of success is greater than the depression of failure. — Jay McLean

Moonlight filtered in through the blinds illuminating their bedroom, but the bright glow couldn't penetrate the darkness that surrounded her heart. — J.E.B. Spredemann

Poverty, oppression, grief and depression will increase, if a country does not live according to the rules of God. — Sunday Adelaja

The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse. — Allen Ginsberg

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable. — John Piper

Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for what it tramples beneath. — Craig Stone

I don't have problems. I am a writer. I am the problem. — Arzum Uzun

It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me. — John Howard Griffin

If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living? — Christopher Bram

The silver flask called to him.
Blue Coyote Motel — Dianne Harman

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles. — Rob Delaney

Not easy to state the change you made.
If I'm alive now, I was dead,
Though, like a stone, unbothered by it. — Sylvia Plath

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. — Vincent Van Gogh

In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it. — S. Truett Cathy

We have hit bottom and are on the upswing. — James J. Davis

The left-wing agenda wants us to think that the reason there was a depression was because the government didn't do anything. That's not true. — Peter Schiff

The only time she has anything resembling a life is when she sleeps because when she sleeps she can dream. — Donna Lynn Hope

Rado explains that people with depression are usually too dependent on the judgments of others for their own sense of self-esteem. — Nick Dubin

Suffering from depression? Just exercise a lot, socialize more, eat better, and do all the other things depression prevents you from doing. — Unknown

When people believe that the local government and economy serve their needs. There is little desire to protest. — Auliq Ice

When it comes to mental illness most of the diagnoses are similar or the same yet they can never display how we individually go through our pain. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Caught in your youniverse again? Try reaching out to the one besides you! — Stefan Emunds

There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life. — Margaret Craven

The difference between depression and happiness is having a purpose. — Clinton McCoy

There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors. — Miriam Toews

Perhaps the greatest neutralizer of sadness rests with two simple words : thank you. — Charles F. Glassman

At the best of times, spring hurts depressives. — Angela Carter

Fifth, you learn to recognize and question the depression-sowing assumptions governing so much of what you do: — Martin E.P. Seligman

Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous. — Wilhelm Stekel

nothing is worse than the false hope someone gives you in your depression — Kim Walters

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks. — John Kenneth Galbraith

How is it that we have over 6 billion people in the world and half of them feel alone? — Nikki Rowe

Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst. — Ray Brown

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression. — Kirstie Alley

From my chair i can see the street and it seems depressing — Brandon Scott Gorrell

Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it. — Veronica Roth

The guns reminded me that this was just an attempt to punch holes in the darkness that enveloped us now. — Michael Poeltl

In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin. — Terri Blackstock

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression. — Eric Maisel

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money. — Walter Annenberg

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression. — Ben Bernanke

An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. — Kilroy J. Oldster

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade ... there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event. — Nathaniel Branden

Until the coming of another day of fear, they walked in silence with bowed heads. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Work, Mrs. Hill knew, might not be a cure for all ailments, but it was a sovereign remedy against the more brooding kinds. — Jo Baker

A middle child, I was born in the depths of the Great Depression. My dad and mom were factory workers, struggling to make ends meet. — Dennis L. McKiernan

Problems are solved from the inside out not the other way around. — Vivian Amis

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel. — David Lloyd-Jones

Somebody stop the world. I'm scared and I want to get off. — James Delano

The opposite of depression isn't feeling happy but being fully alive, however painful — Gwyneth Lewis

and dangerous depths of the labyrinth that was her depression. It had prevented her from slipping — Gilly Macmillan

Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died? — Melinda Gates

It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I don't know why I feel so crazy ... I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's Buddha. — Dawn French

It's not a visitation by angels, but a weakening in the blood
a magical orange grove in a nightmare — Robert Lowell

I didn't have that kind of friendship, the forever kind of friendship that will last your whole life through, no matter what. — Jenny Han

One of the greatest keys to happiness is realizing it has no doors. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart. — Andy Andrews

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

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

I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history. — Harry S. Dent

I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat. — Kevin Keegan

Can't you do just a little bit more?
pleading with Nazarenes in the 1930's Great Depression to support their missionaries) — J.G. Morrison

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. — Alan Lightman