Aesthetic Quote by Peter Schjeldahl

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

— James Hillman

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

The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!

— Peter Schjeldahl

Depression is a physical illness.

— Terry Bradshaw

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

Perhaps depression is a perfectly natural reaction to the human condition.

— Dov Davidoff

Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

— Jane McGonigal

“sufferers of depression, who can elect to keep their feelings private, experience chronic, unremitting emotional alienation. Each moment spent “passing” as normal deepens the…

— David A. Karp

“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

Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive…

— May Sarton

“Depression ... involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course…

— Edward T. Welch

“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