About Quote by Ben Shahn

“THE "depression" was a blessing in disguise. It reduced the whole world to a new starting point that gives every one a new opportunity.”

— Napoleon Hill

I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

The main thing that triggered my depression was my isolation that was imposed on me by becoming the wife of the prime minister, and…

— Margaret Trudeau

I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.

— Ronnie Corbett

I'm not grateful for depression, but it honestly made me work harder and gave me the drive that I have to succeed and to…

— Lili Reinhart

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I went through depression, which is something that we don't often talk about when we look at undocumented communities and deported families.

— Diane Guerrero

Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

— Ella Baker

I have fought my own battle with depression, and it was important for me to bring a little awareness about it for others.

— Deepika Padukone

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

— Adolf Hitler

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

— Henry Ford