Quotes About Depression

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.

No man bears more responsibility for the present worldwide financial crisis and coming depression than Alan Greenspan.

Abraham Lincoln was a melancholy man, so he had a dark side that appeals to horror fans.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

Come on, man.... Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published.

I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education.

I'm sorry you don't get it, Mom. Sometimes I don't get why I do the things I do. I just know I wake up every morning and wish I was dead.

Anxiety, depression, and suicide don't discriminate based on how much money you have - though it might make it easier for you to get help.

Money always ends up making you blue.

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.

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning

(His) sadness grew; it became a rock inside him, pulling him down. He carried the sadness everywhere, morning, noon, and night. It hurt to breathe.

To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.

I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.

I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.

When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.

Singing songs that make you slit your wrists

My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.

It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.