Catastrophe Quote by Leonard Cohen

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

— Terry Gilliam

“I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life. It seems to be the modern world: we all are depressed.”

— Terry Gilliam

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing…

— Leonard Cohen

Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'

— Dallas Willard

“For many people, depression is an abrupt change in an otherwise full and happy life. It emerges suddenly and devastates by its very strangeness…

— Nell Casey

“According to studies, clinically depressed individuals have a more accurate grasp of reality than the average person. We tell ourselves lies and layer falsehoods…

— wildbow

“That’s the thing I want to make clear about depression: It’s got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life,…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

— William Styron

Depression, when it's clinical, is not a metaphor. It runs in families, and it's known to respond to medication and to counseling. However truly…

— Jonathan Franzen

“Depression, is like trying to find a light switch in pitch darkness. Defeating it takes much assistance and resource. First, it's letting in loved…

— Anthony Liccione

“The wordlessness of depression is a galling experience. You can't phone your friends, writing an e-mail is beyond you, you can't put pen to…

— Gwyneth Lewis

Depression is incredibly pervasive and thus important to talk about.

— Robert Sapolsky