Depression Quotations | Page 3

I didn't go into a depression where I stopped. No. I had what I called my days of grief, and they got further and further apart.

I credit chess with helping to pull me out of depression and affording me a true circle of friends whom refuse to judge me for what they see on the outside.

because she was having depression from having kids.

I feel that Lafayette has had a great mental depression the last couple of months due to the hurricane. We cannot change the past ... so we have to look to the future.

For these women, the constant fatigue came first, and depression followed.

If it was to develop into a depression tonight or tomorrow, it could develop into a tropical storm.

He has probably laughed more than any other chancellor. The whole country is sinking into a depression and the chancellor has a smile on his face. Why, we're not sure.

There is a higher rate of depression in caregivers because of the stress -- they need to find a balance in their life.

He's going through a real bad depression right now.

HYPOCHONDRIASIS, n. Depression of one's own spirits.Some heaps of trash upon a vacant lot Where long the village rubbish had been shot Displayed a sign among the stuff and stumps --""Hypochondriasis."" It meant The Dumps. --Bogul S. Purvy

He was suffering from some depression and, as a person of his stature and a public figure, he found it really hard to talk about it to other people and therefore exacerbated the problem.

He just assumed that the time was so short, he hadn't served. He was born before the Great War, he was a child in the Roaring '20s, he graduated about the Depression and he married about World War II. These are very unassuming guys. It was a national responsibility, and you did your job.

Keith's niece was doing makeup for the movie and invited me to the set. I fell in love with 'Our Very Own,' which comes out this fall, ... I told Keith I wanted to write a song for the movie. We got together in L.A. and in 20 minutes, it was done. I think 'Our Very Own' makes a great closer to 'Hearts in Mind.' The movie is set in the mid-1970s in Shelbyville, Tennessee during a massive depression that spread throughout rural America. It is a lovely study of that culture in that time. The words of the song say it all.

I think in troubled times, we're going to see the same genre that worked during the depression -- comedy. People need to escape, they need to laugh, they need to forget the grim realities of the world. Comedies are going to become king at the box office.

It can lead to depression and even suicide.

I was a farmer during the Depression and didn't have many toys-and I missed that. We decided to collect toys because it's a lot larger hobby and the items hold their value so much better than other things.

It is so common and there's a lot of stigma associated with depression in general that we hope to overcome with education.

It is a recession when your neighbor has lost his job. It is a depression when you have lost yours

I think there was a collective depression that permeated Gaza. There is a small window of opportunity here, and we're trying to get people excited about what could happen. They're leaving. We're staying. And it's time to rebuild.

Jim had to go on the dole, but he didn't wear the pain on his sleeve. He accepted it and kept trying to do the best he could for his family. The Great Depression is a character, and I think the villain in this piece is poverty. If there's a single moment in Braddock's life that I think makes him important in history, it's the fact that he went to the Social Security Commission and repaid the money he'd taken when he was on the dole. That shows you more about his character than anything in his boxing career.

Jim had to go on the dole, but he didn't wear the pain on his sleeve, ... He accepted it and kept trying to do the best he could for his family. The Great Depression is a character, and I think the villain in this piece is poverty. If there's a single moment in Braddock's life that I think makes him important in history, it's the fact that he went to the Social Security Commission and repaid the money he'd taken when he was on the dole. That shows you more about his character than anything in his boxing career.

I saw depression the first year and half after he was let go. He really was crushed. I don't think David really understood what the grounds for dismissal were. He really liked the tribe -- he cared about them.

I remember when it happened she didn't know where her father or her aunts or her grandmother was and how her grandmother was really sick. I remember her talking about that a lot. And she went through a depression stage, but then she also used that to lift her up rather than keep her down. It was bad, but in a way it was good because it made her become stronger.

Over the next few years, as I worked through my depression and the shock related to the scandal, I still struggled with relationships.

Other studies claim that ecstasy leads to depression. Sometimes that is the case. But perhaps it is more the case that individuals who already have an increased risk for depression are more likely to use ecstasy.

Research shows that a woman who has a history of depression is twice as likely to subsequently experience infertility as a woman with no history of depression.

Steinbeck wrote about the Depression and how hard people's lives were, but he also makes so much comment about itinerant farm workers and race relations. He does a wonderful job illuminating character. He records the best and worst of human behavior. If you're looking for a window back to this time, this is it.

Married people are happier. And there is a lot of evidence that depression is a risk factor. It makes sense that if you are generally happy in life, that would be both a cause and an effect to a longer life.

I think maybe it was just depression about all the stuff that happened. All the things we lost. All the disruption. And then you look around and see all the stuff still messed up. It just sort of grinds you down.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.

we found a higher incidence of depression and mild cognitive impairment.

The problem wasn't with the city, the sport, my teammates or my coach, even though I blamed all of them at one time or another. The problem was with me. But I didn't realize it back then because I hadn't been told that there was a clinical reason -- social anxiety disorder -- for everything odd I was feeling, everything from the depression to the shyness. I didn't understand that some of the things that were holding me back were chemical.

We are in a state of semi-panic in the markets. A lot of irrational depression and a lot of irrational selling is going on.

Unfortunately, the spectrum of treatment options for depression in pregnant women is narrow, and other medicines, such as benzodiazepines, carry a Category D pregnancy risk factor with a significant confirmed risk to human fetuses.

Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.

We can’t all and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.

The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?" and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about.

Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel against the roles we play for fear of putting our sanity in doubt.

I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism.

There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue.

The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he. "Why, what's the matter?" "Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." "Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose. "Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.

Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and it’s sucked every second so far, it probably isn't going to get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else...

Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.

Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.

In my view, prescribing antidepressant drugs is too often a quick and easy substitute for developing treatment plans that address the totality of health concerns and lifestyle factors that have an impact on wellness, including emotional wellness.

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

Every time I get happy the Nana-hex comes through. Birds turn into plumber's tools, a sonnet turns into a dirty joke, a wind turns into a tracheotomy, a boat turns into a corpse....

Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.

It's all a matter of history. Brandy is no solace. Librium only lies me down like a dead snow queen. Yes! I am still the criminal.

Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth. It can be described only in metaphor and allegory

Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.

Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it ...

It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.

The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.

A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.

... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying.

I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories

They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come. When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun. It will just go black. It will just go back to the way it was before.

I don't know why I feel so crazy...I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's Buddha.

Rituals, even unhappy ones, provide a measure of comfort. Like a superstitious ballplayer who will only use certain bats, my depression rituals have become a fixed, normal part of my life. ... I need rituals to prevent unnecessarily rocking my already shaky emotional boat.

To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it...

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is not yet listening.

When present for at least six years, depression was associated with a generally increased risk of cancer,

Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

With a single depression fracture at the back of the head, we believed that the only animal capable of inflicting a wound like this was a raptor but we could not prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.

There are risks to antidepressant treatment, but the risks of untreated depression are worse.

While it is horrible that some children who take antidepressant medications commit suicide, putting the blame on medicines that help treat millions of persons with mental illnesses is irresponsible and is a blatant attempt to frighten parents, children and patients. There are risks to antidepressant treatment, but the risks of untreated depression are worse.

When the depression hit, he bought land for 50 cents an acre and cows for $1 each from his neighbors who couldn't make it.

When somebody tells you that something could have been done, that maybe a phone call to 911 could have saved him, that's when you start to beat yourself up. I think that's when the depression set in more than anything.

You can tell a difference in them from the very first month. Once they have been given permission to be a woman, the depression lifts.

We wanted to see if his depression alone impaired the child's development - in addition to the way it could affect (that development) because his depression was causing him to not support the mother,

We want to offer dual-diagnosis programs. Everyone who comes in here has more than one diagnosis. We might combine drug and alcohol treatment with depression treatment.

We want to fly over the top of this depression before it deepens and sucks us in.

What we are seeing are the consequences of long-term conflict... the breaking of families and communities. There is a lot of depression and anxiety among children.

What the generation, the Americans who came of age in the 30s and 40s believe they lived, felt, I mean had reason to feel they lived in a world that was very much beyond their control and in which terrible things were capable of happening to you beyond your control. The depression being the obvious example.

There have been concerns about refinery activity because of tropical depression No. 8 in the Gulf of Mexico and Hurricane Georges in the Atlantic, which could reach the Gulf.

Besides the companionship of the animal, people who have animals have lower blood pressure, less depression and less stress. With a rescue dog you also get a good feeling because you are saving the dog and I think they are appreciative.

Everyone wants to start the New Year's with a healthier attitude. A good friendship can boost your physical health and mental health, but a bad friendship can cause all sorts of emotional problems, resulting in anxiousness, depression and headaches.

Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression

Early-onset depression is thought to begin in the teenage years but in fact it is turning out to be as early as we can begin to measure it. We ought to be thinking much more about who are the children who already have these disorders.

Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.

There won't be any changes until we have another depression like in the 1930s, which we have not approached yet in the present recession.

The scans showed there is no significant depression and the pleasing news is Benji does not have to undergo surgery.

The thinking behind our study was we know depression exists in fathers. We know PPD impairs the mother-child relation in a way that is ... (damaging) for the child. So, was that also the case with dad?

Perhaps for individuals who did not display symptoms of depression and anxiety in childhood, using a lot of ecstasy may also cause depression. We are not saying that is not the case, but we need more studies.

Our thinking is that many subclasses of depression might be associated with lower levels of P11 on the one hand, and that raising either the level or the functionality of the P11 would be a novel way of developing antidepressants.

Other disorders that could account for symptoms of ADHD include post traumatic stress disorder, which can make kids inattentive, ... Anxiety, depression and learning disorders can do the same thing.

People should be closely monitored, but not because these drugs are especially risky. The real problem in the treatment of depression is that people start medicine and the medicine has side effects or the medicine doesn't work right away, and they get discouraged and they drop out.