As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.

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

I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.

I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life.

It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

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

A middle child, I was born in the depths of the Great Depression. My dad and mom were factory workers, struggling to make ends meet.

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.

The 'Horn 'OK' Pleassss' harassment incident and the mob attack there had sent me spiralling into a deep state of depression in 2008.

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

I'm not grateful for depression, but it honestly made me work harder and gave me the drive that I have to succeed and to make it work.

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

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.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Colors are important. People are in clinical depression whether they are on medication or not. Neutrals are another form of medication.

You see a lot of depression among injured sports stars who would rather be reaching their goals or at least doing what they love doing.

Mental health can be just as important as physical health - and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.

The album 'Hoodie SZN' is about the result of where I come from: it gave me this black heart. And the black heart represents depression.

I was diagnosed with depression at fourteen, but I couldn't find any medication that did anything for me other than making things worse.

I suffer from anxiety, moments of depression. I'm in my head so much, and I'm thinking so much, I'm playing a tug-of-war within my mind.

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer

It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.

Oddly, I believe that emotional proximity we feel to close loved ones makes it hard to be honest with them about feelings of depression.

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

You raise taxes during an economic crisis time, as we did in - back in the time of Herbert Hoover, you send the country into a depression.

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.

But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.

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.

Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

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.

Depression is so exhausting - it takes up so much of your time and energy - and silence about it, it really does make the depression worse.

I've had a panic disorder since I was sixteen, and they always said that's a subset of depression. And I'm like, 'I don't have depression.'

When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.

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.

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've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2?

I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2.

They say depression is just anger turned inward. Sometimes I turn it outwards, sometimes I turn it inward, but I know it's about self-worth.

The left-wing agenda wants us to think that the reason there was a depression was because the government didn't do anything. That's not true.

It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.

Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

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