Depression Quotes

2071 Depression quotes by 1126 unique authors

Nothing is quite as depressing as depression. — Claire Weekes
Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures, a series of… — Douglas Bloch
The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money. — Irving Kahn
Depression catches everyone who lives long enough to be caught. — Steve Fowler
Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of preparation… — Grace Abbott
When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account... — Hiroko Sakai
The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly... I even do… — Hiroko Sakai
Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the… — Regina Brett
Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term… — John Kenneth Galbraith
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
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The pain of depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no… — William Styron
In the large sense the primary cause of the Great Depression was the war of 1914-1918. Without the war there would have been no depression… — Herbert Hoover
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to… — Anatole France
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. — Milton Friedman
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… — Stephen Fry
I find nothing more depressing than optimism. — Paul Fussell
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people… — Bob Geldof
There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really wanted to do 'Ironweed,' for example, because the… — Whoopi Goldberg
The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the… — Daniel Goleman
I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten. — Amy Grant
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness,… — Graham Greene
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? — Ursula K. Le Guin
If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise… — Judy Collins
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. — Confucius

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