Depression Quotes

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

Walter Annenberg

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1. The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

   William Vickrey

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

   Carroll O'Connor

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

   Albert Ellis

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4. I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.

   Albert Ellis

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5. The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

   James Tobin

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6. I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

   Rube Goldberg

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7. I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

   Jack Steinberger

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8. For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

   Kirstie Alley

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9. In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it.

   Lawrence Welk

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1. Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.

   Ray Brown

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2. 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

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3. 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

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4. 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

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1. 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

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2. 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

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3. 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

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4. 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

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1. 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

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2. 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

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3. 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

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4. The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

   James Tobin

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1. 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

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2. 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

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3. 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

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4. 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

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1. I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

   Adam Ant

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2. The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

   Gary Larson

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

   Tony Curtis

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4. 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

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5. 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

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6. I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

   Henri Nouwen

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7. I've suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

   Lady Gaga

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8. If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.

   Siobhan Fahey

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1. 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

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2. 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

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3. I've suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

   Lady Gaga

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4. I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.

   Albert Ellis

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

   Doug Coupland

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2. 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

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3. I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.

   Albert Ellis

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1. 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

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2. 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

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3. 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

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4. 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

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1. 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

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2. Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

   James Hillman

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3. 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

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4. Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

   Karen Horney

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5. 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

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6. 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

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7. 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.

   Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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8. I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

   Wayne Dyer

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9. I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.

   Albert Ellis

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

    Albert Ellis

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1. Depression is rage spread thin.

   George Santayana

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2. 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

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3. 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

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4. 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

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

   Doug Coupland

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2. 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

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3. 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

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4. The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

   William Vickrey

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1. I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

   Adam Ant

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2. 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

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3. I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.

   Vidal Sassoon

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4. 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

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5. 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

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6. The minute I slip into depression I just have a quick look in the mirror.

   Liam Gallagher

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7. 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

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8. If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.

   Siobhan Fahey

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9. Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.

   Siobhan Fahey

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1. 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

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2. 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

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3. 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

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1. 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

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2. 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

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3. 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

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1. 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

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2. Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.

   Tom Bosley

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3. Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.

   Tom Bosley

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1. I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

   Herbert Hoover

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2. 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

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3. 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

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