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Quotes About Depression

To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy.
~ Unknown
A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.
~ Ronald Reagan
I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.
~ Oscar Levant
What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing.
~ Joseph Prince
All you ever think about it yourself! The reason you're depressed is because you're so self obsessed.
~ Unknown
All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.
~ Debbie Macomber
When we win, I'm so happy I eat a lot. When we lose, I'm so depressed, I eat a lot. When we're rained out, I'm so disappointed I eat a lot.
~ Tommy Lasorda
Depression Is Anger Without Enthusiasm. A
~ Unknown
The Black Death, or plague, had wreaked havoc in the middle decades of the fourteenth century. Economic depression followed the decline of population, abandonment of fertile land, and curtailing of trade. But by the mid-fifteenth century, economic expansion was once again the order of the day.
~ Unknown
In March 1930, representatives of every studio signed the agreement. This "Production Code" should have kept forbidden elements off the screen, but the Great Depression arrived, emptying theaters. To lure patrons back, producers began to violate the agreement
~ Unknown
We usually think of disorder as a word reserved for more extreme conditions or experiences, such as significant depression or anxiety that keeps us from going to work or being present to our kids. We think of disorder perhaps in medical conditions, such as cancer or heart disease. But all of it is disordered. Even the healthiest of us is still living in a fallen world as a fallen person.
~ Unknown
Is everybody supposed to run current account surpluses? If so, with whom—Martians? And if everybody does indeed try to run a savings surplus, what else can be the outcome but a permanent global depression?
~ Unknown
Why is it that people who are absorbed by something are seen as sad? I can't explain it, but for me it reverses the true state of affairs. To be engaged is to be a part, to be absorbed and fulfilled. To be cool, to be detached from things and to have no passionate feelings is the real sadness. At the heart of depression, that quintessentially modern malaise, is a deep sense of separation from the rest of life.
~ Unknown
Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.
~ Mark Epstein
Depression is not a psychiatric illness, but a systemic disease.
~ Mark Hyman
Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat.
~ Tao Lin
To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
~ C. L. R. James
Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
~ Ronald Reagan
Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
~ Ronald Reagan
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.
~ Elayne Boosler
Always direct your thoughts to those truths that will give you confidence, hope, joy, love, thanksgiving, and turn away your mind from those that inspire you with fear, sadness, depression
~ Unknown
When we are depressed we expect love from others, but when we are happy we forget to give love to the depressed.
~ Unknown