Air Quote by Matt Haig

“Depressed people do things they wouldn't ordinarily do.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Depression is an illness, and no fault of the person who suffers from it”

— Julie Schumacher

“Both the biological and psychological approaches are suspect since both posit an unreal world, completely at odds with human experience, in which people do…

— Eric Maisel

Depressives have led countries, won wars, flown rockets to the moon, made great music. Don't let depression stop you employing someone, and never let…

— Matt Haig

“Being depressed is one thing when your life can be seen by outsiders as justifiably hard, but it is a whole different shameful story…

— Boyd Varty

Depression is a horrible, potentially life-threatening illness - but the lives it threatens are almost always those of the people who suffer from it.

— Matt Haig

Depression is unfocused self-pity.

— Bill Wilson

A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.

— Joan Robinson

“The attitude that depression is necessary strikes me as destructive, inhuman, and victimizing.”

— David D. Burns

“People who perceive the negative experiences in their lives as the result of uncontrollable forces are at a higher risk for depression than those…

— Sheena Iyengar

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

— Viggo Mortensen

“And when we make choices informed by a depressive state of mind, they're more than likely to keep us stuck in our unhappiness.”

— J. Mark G. Williams