The Depression Quotes
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The Depression Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
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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 waitingFor 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 ovenbecause I just burn in the bed. — Casey Renee Kiser
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
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
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
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
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
We have hit bottom and are on the upswing.
— James J. Davis
The only time she has anything resembling a life is when she sleeps because when she sleeps she can dream.
— Donna Lynn Hope
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
There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life.
— Margaret Craven
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
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
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
The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
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
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 blooda magical orange grove in a nightmare — Robert Lowell
One of the greatest keys to happiness is realizing it has no doors.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
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
