Quotes with depression

  • Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
  • Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist - a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist - only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.
  • The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.
  • 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.
  • My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
  • THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.
  • The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.
  • Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.
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  • Paul Tillich Depression is rage spread thin.
    Paul Tillich
    German-American theologian and philosopher (1886 - 1965)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Ronald Reagan A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.
    Speech, 01-09-1980
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Bryan Burrough All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • Jeanette Winterson Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Arne Duncan At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.
    Arne Duncan
    American civil servant (1964 - )
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  • Bob Geldof 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
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Bjork Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Pythagoras Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • Joni Mitchell Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl.
    Joni Mitchell
    Canadian singer-songwriter (1943 - )
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  • Carol Shields Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Susan Sontag Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Brad Pitt Depression is not interesting to watch.
    Brad Pitt
    American actor and filmmaker (1963 - )
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  • Rollo May Depression is the inability to construct a future.
    Rollo May
    American psychologist
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  • Siri Hustvedt Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.
    Siri Hustvedt
    American novelist and essayist (1955 - )
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  • Jonathan Franzen Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.
    How to Be Alone: Essays (2007) 87
    Jonathan Franzen
    American novelist and essayist (1959 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Do I wish I had never endured postpartum depression? Absolutely. But to deny the experience is to deny who I am.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda 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.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • Ben Shapiro During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During the 1930s, when the entire American economy fell into a government-owned alligator moat, crime was nearly non-existent. During the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was excellent, crime rose again.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Judith Guest Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
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