Century Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

“But depression wasn’t the word. This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the personal: a sick, drenching nausea at all humanity…

— Donna Tartt

DEPRESSION - one word to describe a mountain of pain. One word to steal the light from a person's soul and leave them stranded…

— Anonymous

“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

Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's…

— Sebastian Faulks

“The word “depressed” is spoken phonetically as “deep rest”. We can view depression not as a mental illness, but on a deeper level, as…

— Jeff Foster

The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode - an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank runs and wild currency speculation, with the storm clouds…

— Ben Bernanke

Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made…

— Florynce Kennedy

A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.

— Joan Robinson

“The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing emotional pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of…

— David Foster Wallace

There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't…

— Irving Kirsch

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating…

— William Styron

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

— Jonathan Franzen