Depression Quotes - page 3

Interviewer: "So Jeff, what are your main musical influences?" Jeff (after a long pause): "Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally." (Jeff Buckley)
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski
creative people always suffer from depression because we're so super sensitive and special? View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism. View quote
Joan Robinson
I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
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. View quote
Benjamin Graham
The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism. View quote
Benjamin Graham
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. (Benjamin Graham)
The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense. It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy. View quote
Benjamin Graham
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland. View quote
Philip Larkin
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. View quote
Jonathan Franzen
You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days. View quote
Jimmy Hoffa
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone. View quote
Indro Montanelli
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. View quote
Daniel Goleman
In the large sense the primary cause of the Great Depression was the war of 1914-1918. Without the war there would have been no depression of such dimensions. There might have been a normal cyclical recession; but, with the usual timing, even that readjustment probably would not have taken place at that particular period, nor would it have been a "Great Depression. View quote
Herbert Hoover
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. View quote
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. (Herbert Hoover)
In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces. View quote
Herbert Hoover
Libraries raised me. I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. View quote
Ray Bradbury
I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine. View quote
Wole Soyinka
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. View quote
Siobhan Fahey