Quotes About Depression

Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.

The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.

In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it.

I dont have time to be depressed.

These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!

The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.

I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history.

I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever.

I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don't have time for them. I can't make phone calls and stuff. I just sit on my own for days.

Life was getting dark around the edges. It was like he was moving through a tunnel that was becoming narrower and blacker and more choked and airless, and soon there would be nothing left for him to breathe and no room for him to move.

they thought that there was no such thing as Depression, other than a vague, neurotic concept. That it was just an updated version of 'suffering from her nerves' which everyone knows translates as 'she feels sorry for herself for no good reason.

People with a lot of dead begin to lose the desire to live.

Embracing joy heals depression. Then we become the ones who teach the meaning of joy to our children, as well as allowing them to teach it to us.

Todas las mañanas, al despertar, podemos bendecir el mundo. Podemos orar para lograr ser hoy los seguidores de algo realmente sagrado y verdadero. Podemos respirar profundo y entregarnos al Plan de Dios por toda nuestra vida. Y, cuando lo hagamos, experimentaremos los milagros. Lo más importante es esto: si no lo hacemos, nos sentiremos deprimidos.

Failures are very important—they mean a great deal to me. After a big failure, I go into a deep depression and a very dark part of my body, but soon afterward I come back to life again, alive to something else.

Cada vez que le ocurría apiadarse y avergonzarse de sí mismo hasta el extremo de que se le llenaran los ojos de lágrimas, se sentía luego deprimido y asqueado. Nunca había sido un sentimental propenso a exhibir sus emociones, siempre había sabido disimular los tumultos que agitaban sus sentimientos tras una máscara de perfecta serenidad

The body shuts down when it's too sad," said my dad.

No one knows it yet, but Cape Breton is a dress rehearsal for the Great Depression.

Rick Rubin and I had been talking about sarcasm a lot. Rick had read a theory that it was an incredibly detrimental form of humor that depresses the spirit of its proponents.

We had just finished the world's greatest depression and there were many bankrupt companies. But a war causes a demand for almost every product, so during a war almost every company will prosper again. So

There were Hoover blankets, the newspapers used by the destitute to ward off the cold; Hoover flags, pockets empty of money; and Hoovervilles, the shantytowns of the homeless.

Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.

But a funny thing happens to you in a depression. If you don't hurt yourself, you can gain tremendous insights and empathy, find inner strengths and hidden talents. It's a mysterious process, but if you can hold on, you become a wiser person.