Quotes About Depression

My mother wanted me to be a writer. But she was a child of the Depression and never understood that she wasn't poor. So, you know, the idea of not having a job, it would creep through. But she tried very hard to be subtle about it.

I went through depression, which is something that we don't often talk about when we look at undocumented communities and deported families.

My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home.

I honestly think that depression, unhappiness or the feeling of emptiness is more a lack of amazement about life than anything else.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping.

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

There is a cliche that probably has some anecdotal evidence on the side that comedians are very depressed people, but that's because no one is ever going to seem as funny in a normal conversation as compared to when they're up there onstage in the spotlight making a huge audience keel over with laughter.

Between 2014 and 2016, I was just, like, extremely sad. Like, really, really just not able to be in the spotlight.

People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made things worse.

There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult, and mistakes are common. Misdiagnosis can be lethal. Medications that work well for some forms of depression induce agitation in others.

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

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

In theory an addictive relationship can be established with just about anything, so long as the substance, person, or activity relieves the threat of overt depression

The flight from shame into grandiosity lies at the heart of male covert depression.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life. It seems to be the modern world: we all are depressed.

Hours spent daily watching your television news will do more to add to your depression than to alleviate your feelings of helplessness.

King David knew that the way out of depression was to exchange the spirit of heaviness for a garment of praise, because he was a covenant child of God.

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

I think we were all living with this cloud of depression over us that would forever linger, so whilst I can take or leave the content, if the joy is a false dawn or one that will never see the light of day, then so be it. If our spirits are momentarily lifted then that, I think is fine. We have, of course, had a lifetime to mull it over.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it.

It's not hard for me to be funny in front of people, but most of that is just horrified nerves taking the form of what makes people laugh, and afterwards I'd always feel dreadfully depressed, kind of self-induced bi-polar disorder.