Depression Quotes - page 2

Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way. (Christopher McDougall)

I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers.

Laurie Halse Anderson

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 view it as a learning experience etc.

Bob Geldof

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

Helen Reddy

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.

Sharon Olds

Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.

Claire Forlani

Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.

Michael Schenker

In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

Orville Redenbacher

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives. (Polly Toynbee)

In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

Patrick J. Kennedy

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.

Richard Marx

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

Russ Carnahan

From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy. The Fed has followed a consistent policy of flooding the economy with easy money, leading to a misallocation of resources and an artificial 'boom' followed by a recession or depression when the Fed-created bubble bursts.

Ron Paul

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

Tony Curtis

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

Murray Gell-Mann

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 crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described.

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

I like thought which preserves a whiff of flesh and blood, and I prefer a thousand times an idea rising from sexual tension or nervous depression to empty abstraction. (Emil Cioran)

To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.

Emil Cioran

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

Emil Cioran

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

Steven Wright

Interviewer: "So Jeff, what are your main musical influences?" Jeff (after a long pause): "Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally."

Jeff Buckley

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