Depression Quotes

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
Ronald Reagan

Job, Lose, Neighbor

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
Jonathan Davis

Before, Wish, Anyone

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

End, Daily, Long

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
Sivananda

Future, Mistakes, Mind

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
Grenville Kleiser

Humor, Good, Best

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

Happiness, Live, Fight

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.
David D. Burns

Hope, Loved, Cancer

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
Ernest Hemingway

Good, Artist, Whether

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

Pain, Enough, Living

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
Milton Friedman

Great, Government, Rather

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
Doug Coupland

Love, Taking, Lots

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
Warren Buffett

Two, President, Military

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.
Siobhan Fahey

Reality, Reason, Lose

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
Chuck Palahniuk

Great, War, Spiritual

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.
Amy Winehouse

Black, Since, Felt

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

American, Word, Ourselves

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
J. K. Rowling

Fear, Yourself, Stress

Depression is rage spread thin.
George Santayana

Rage, Thin, Spread

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
Herbert Hoover

Cannot, Themselves, Action

It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.
Carroll O'Connor

Made, Others, System

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.
Ray Bradbury

Money, School, High

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Harry S. Truman

Job, Lose, Neighbor

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.
Murray Gell-Mann

Enthusiasm, Renewed, Followed

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
Albert Ellis

Largely, Therefore

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
Christopher Hitchens

Giving, Dark, Soul

The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.
Stephen Fry

Word, Point, Hear

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
James Hillman

Down, Makes, Miserable

Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Rollo May

Future, Inability, Construct

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
Pythagoras

Control, Cannot, Free

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
Jesse Jackson

Lazy, Unemployed, Whites

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