There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash.

A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.

It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.

A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood.

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

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

My father's money vanished in the Great Depression, and he had trouble keeping a job.

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me.

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

The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.

The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

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

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

in a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box.

My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi.

In my experience the best way to beat depression is to get involved in something inspiring.

Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that's it?

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

In the Depression especially, I think you learn to face problems and not run away from them.

It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.

America has always built ourselves out of adversity. All the way back to the Great Depression.

That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

When I was suffering with depression, people weren't talking about depression. It had a stigma.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.

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