Depression Quotes - page 22

Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid. (Peter Agre)
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. View quote
Pythagoras
Don't forget, there's a Depression coming." "Who says?" "I say; everybody says!" "Why would we have a Depression?" "Because we don't have any discipline! We're drowning in debt! We don't even own our own country any more! View quote
John Updike
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years. View quote
Martin Lewis Perl
The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls. View quote
Carrie Fisher
There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac! View quote
Gerry Rafferty
During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks. View quote
William Julius Wilson
The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief. View quote
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
And I always think of life like a giant wave. You know, it rises and it crests and it flies, and it's just magnificent, and then it crashes. And for a lot of people, when it crashes, that's the end, and they go down the deep, dark hole of depression. View quote
Jane Seymour
Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. (Barbara Kingsolver)
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape. View quote
Leonard Cohen
I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Dear Depression, please keep your distance. Don't be nasty. Find some other person with more reason than me to look in the mirror and say: "What a pointless existence.” Whether you like it or not, I know how to defeat you. You're wasting your time. View quote
Paulo Coelho
I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result. View quote
Alanis Morissette
When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly. View quote
Paul Krugman
What the Depression teaches us is that when the economy is so depressed that even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, you have to put conventional notions of prudence and sound policy aside. View quote
Paul Krugman
I've battled with that type of stuff, but what I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned about depression and how to combat it. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it. View quote
Bill Burr
I do want your happiness. But the absence of fighting or hatred or desire also means the opposites do not exist either. No joy, no communion, no love. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope. View quote
Haruki Murakami
It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body. View quote
Norman Cousins
In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression. (Ezra Taft Benson)
I think I suffer from some mild depression. View quote
Zach Braff
To produce a maximum of chaos in the culture of the enemy is our first most important step. Our fruits are grown in chaos, distrust, economic depression and scientific turmoil. At least a weary populace can seek peace only in our offered Communist State, at last only Communism can resolve the problems of the masses. View quote
Lavrentiy Beria
I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression. View quote
Lou Holtz
Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression. View quote
Amy Winehouse