Just like everybody else, celebrities have brains and those brains get conditions - addiction, depression.

Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.

We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

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

I'm naturally a very happy person, but I've had times with depression and have got through it with therapy.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.

To make 'depression' synonymous with 'dangerous' is as bad as saying 'Muslim' is synonymous with 'terrorist.'

I lost my parents. I was totally alone and I had to manage everything all alone. It did put me in depression.

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.

A new study found that people who are depressed have a greater risk of stroke. Well that should cheer them up.

Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life.

During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

I have seen really happy people in my life sing really well. Yes, when people get fame, then there's depression.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.

I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

We in New York were very poor in the depths of the Depression - but I must say, that was the best time of my life.

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever.

It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it.

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.

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

Even if consumer confidence hit rock bottom, that most likely would not be enough, by itself, to cause a depression.

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

You are no more at fault for having depression than if you had asthma, diabetes, heart disease, or any other illness.

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

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