Part 1. Best depression quotes ever
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Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
Sigmund Freud, psychologist
Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
Doug Coupland, author
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
Elizabeth Wurtzel,
The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
Sylvia Plath, poet
Depression is anger without enthusiasm
Anonymous,
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
Ernest Hemingway, novelist
I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out.
Elizabeth Wurtzel,
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
Chuck Palahniuk, novelist
Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
James Hillman, psychologist
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
Cesare Pavese, poet
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The minute I slip into depression I just have a quick look in the mirror.
Liam Gallagher, musician
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
Sigmund Freud, psychologist
My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.
Patty Duke, actress
Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.
Claire Forlani, actress
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
C. L. R. James, journalist
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.
John Mellencamp, musician
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, politician
Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.
Helen Reddy, actress
Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.
Julius Erving, athlete
Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.
Lawrence R. Klein, economist
Part 2. depression quotes That ARE...
Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.
Ray Brown, musician
We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises.
Lawrence Summers, economist
The simple fact of the matter is, as I know everyone in this room knows, that the recession that this country faced when this President took office was the worst since the Great Depression.
Jay Carney, public servant
We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.
Arthur Laffer, economist
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The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families.
John Freeman, politician
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, president
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
Herbert Hoover, president
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.
Arthur Henderson, politician
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Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
Herbert Hoover, president
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.
Arthur Henderson, politician
My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses.
Richard M. Daley, politician
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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, public servant
We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises.
Lawrence Summers, economist
Investing in auto companies and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a great depression may not have been the most popular thing to do, but it was the right thing to do.
Robert Gibbs, public servant
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, businessman
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I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
Adam Ant, musician
I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.
Tony Curtis, actor
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
Gary Larson, cartoonist
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.
Alanis Morissette, musician
My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses.
Richard M. Daley, politician
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The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.
Daniel Goleman, author
I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.
Vanilla Ice, musician
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Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
Doug Coupland, author
I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help.
Aron Ralston, celebrity
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The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes.
Art Linkletter, journalist
There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path.
Mike Wallace, journalist
You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed.
Mike Wallace, journalist
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
C. L. R. James, journalist
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Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
Sigmund Freud, psychologist
Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
James Hillman, psychologist
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, psychologist
Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
Karen Horney, psychologist
The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?
James Hillman, psychologist
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.
James Hillman, psychologist
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Depression is rage spread thin.
George Santayana, philosopher
Human existence must be a kind of error...it may be said of it, 'it is bad today and every day it will get worse, until the worst of all happens'.
Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.
Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher
Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.
Robert Nozick, philosopher
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Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
Doug Coupland, author
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.
Leonard Cohen, musician
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.
Alanis Morissette, musician
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I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
Adam Ant, musician
I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
Vidal Sassoon, businessman
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.
Arthur Henderson, politician
We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.
John Bright, politician
The minute I slip into depression I just have a quick look in the mirror.
Liam Gallagher, musician
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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
Victor Hugo, author
Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.
Jean Baudrillard, sociologist
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.
Victor Hugo, author
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Part 5. Best depression quotes from greatest people ever.
Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.
William Styron, novelist
The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.
William Styron, novelist
In depression...faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no rememdy will come, not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
William Styron, novelist
I want to help people with depression understand that there is hope, so that they can get the help they need to live rich, fulfilling lives.
Tom Bosley, actor
Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.
Tom Bosley, actor
Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.
Tom Bosley, actor
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I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Herbert Hoover, president
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, president
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
Herbert Hoover, president
Part 7. Conclusion.
Best of 123 Famous Depression Quotes. Depression quotes that capture your feeling and help you feel understood. Some quotes are short, economic, political and financialm, while others are about life, love and anxiety.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1
Best Depression quotes
Top Depression picture quotes
New Depression quotes
Part 2
Depression Quotes That ARE...
Worst
Economic
Political
Financial
Part 3
Depression Quotes About
Life
Anxiety
Love
Part 4
Depression Quotes By ...
Journalist
Psychologist
Philosopher
Part 5
Depression Quotes From ...
Canadian
British
French
Part 6
Depression Quotes by Famous Authors
William Styron
Tom Bosley
Herbert Hoover
Part 7
Conclusion
