Quotes About Depression

The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the market, is called crisis, slump, bad business, depression.

..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression.

The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.

When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure.

Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it.

We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.

The more the government intervenes to delay the market's adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be, and the more difficult will be the road to complete recovery.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.

Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that's not true at all.

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

Sometimes people think if someone has depression, that person must be a broken Mormon. We believe that righteousness is happiness, but what happens when people are righteous and they're not happy?

Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness.

Depression is not an absence of happiness, it's a feeling that happiness may never return.

Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What's so wrong with that?

Sometimes I get so sad that it jest sounds good.

Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.

Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?