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Quotes About Depression

Depression, the war, and the ninety-percent tax rates of the forties and fifties, there was less and less of this paper, and it finally vanished as mysteriously as it had first appeared.
~ Nelson DeMille
I was very depressed in those months, because it's not funny to lose both your feet when you're thirty years old.
~ Nevil Shute
inept or inflexible monetary policy in the wake of a sharp decline in asset prices can turn a correction into a recession and a recession into a depression.
~ Niall Ferguson
I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
~ Vidal Sassoon
Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.
~ Edward Hirsch
My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.
~ Bea Arthur
There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.
~ Siddhartha Mukherjee
I went to multiple doctors to make sure that I'm taking the right anti-depression medication and make sure that my blood pressure's okay. I found out that my blood pressure wasn't okay and that I had a fatty liver. All these health risks were coming up.
~ Ashley Nell Tipton
My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.
~ Jo Brand
In the Depression, big musicals made a comeback.
~ Katherine Kelly
If you look at the character of Sadness, they really nailed my eyebrows.
~ Phyllis Smith
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
~ Herbert Hoover
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
~ Charlie Chaplin
Being depressed means you are trying to see a colorful world through gray filtered eyes
~ Chris Morgan
Though often surrounded by people, Hattie felt dreadfully alone.
~ Chris Offutt
Depression can be due to a low endocrine function, nutritional deficiencies, blood sugar problems, food allergies, or systemic yeast infection. Depression can also result from medical illnesses such as stroke, heart attack, cancer, Parkinson's disease, and hormonal disorder. It can also be caused by a serious loss, a difficult relationship, a financial problem, or any stressful, unwelcome life change.
~ Chris Prentiss
Depression is very real. I could not feel, so in many ways, I had a huge advantage.
~ Christine Feehan
If everyone took anti-depressants, Chekhov would have nothing to write about.
~ Christopher Durang
If everyone took antidepressants, Chekhov would have had nothing to write about.
~ Christopher Durang
I have a life, goddamit. One life. I've seen too many people give theirs up, to drugs or suicide or even depression... fuck, even just lazinesss. I've seen lives wasted. I'll be damned if I'm going to waste mine.
~ Christopher Golden
And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.
~ Christopher Moore
As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.
~ Christopher Paolini
philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.
~ Christopher Paolini
Indeed, lack of self-control may be at the root of all emotional disorders, so named because the person is controlled by anxiety and depression rather than vice versa. Everyone experiences negative emotions; what determines whether they escalate to full-blown disorders may simply be whether the person has the ability to circumscribe them.
~ Christopher Peterson