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Quotes About Depression

Depressions are indeed one of the states a capitalist economy can fall into. An economic theory that does not incorporate that possibility is as relevant as a theory of biology that excludes the risk of extinctions, a theory of the body that excludes the risk of heart attacks, or a theory of bridge-building that excludes the risk of collapse.
~ Martin Wolf
Can 'It' – a Great Depression – happen again? And if 'It' can happen why didn't 'It' occur in the years since World War II? These are questions that naturally follow from both the historical record and the comparative success of the past thirty-five years. To answer these questions it is necessary to have an economic theory which makes great depressions one of the possible states in which our type of capitalist economy can find itself.
~ Martin Wolf
lethargy which springs from despair.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
was half-past five before Holmes returned. He was bright, eager, and in excellent spirits, a mood which in his case alternated with fits of the blackest depression. 'There is no great mystery in this matter,' he said, taking the cup of tea which I had poured out for
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sadness was a very heavy thing.
~ Arthur Golden
Sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier.
~ Arthur Golden
terminally ill cancer patients who were put on a mechanical ventilator, given electrical defibrillation or chest compressions, or admitted, near death, to intensive care had a substantially worse quality of life in their last week than those who received no such interventions. And, six months after their death, their caregivers were three times as likely to suffer major depression.
~ Atul Gawande
in touch with the erotic, I become less willing to accept the powerlessness, or those other supplied states of being which are not native to me, such as resignation, despair, self-effacement, depression, self-denial.
~ Audre Lorde
I felt ignorant, self-deprived, incredibly isolated, deeply and profoundly lonely and missing people, absolutely starved for affection, physically weary from alcohol, very depressed about my physical appearance, my weak muscles. Hurt and angry and sad
~ Augusten Burroughs
Even as more wives took paying jobs during the Depression, their unpaid workload increased. Less able to afford the conveniences that had begun to lighten the homemaker's load in the 1920s, women had to sew more of their own clothes, can more of their own preserves, do more of their cooking from scratch. "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without" was a popular saying of the day.
~ Stephanie Coontz
The tides here are too rough. I sink here, happy only when I hoard my little blue sleeping pills, stash the blades of my razor. I accumulate a drawer of drop-out devices, so by December I can escape to a Merry Christmas.
~ Stephanie Hemphill
I can't think again. Not ever again. I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that.
~ Stephen Chbosky
don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That's why I'm trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Não sei o que há de errado comigo. É como se tudo o que pudesse fazer é escrever esse palavreado para evitar a depressão.
~ Stephen Chbosky
There are times when I'm doing QI and I'm going, 'Ha ha, yeah, yeah,' and inside I'm going 'I want to fucking die. I … want … to … fucking … die.' (Source : RHLSTP #18 - @87min32s)
~ Stephen Fry
When I was younger, I used to vacillate between thinking love was this great and glorious mystery and thinking it was just something a bunch of Hollywood move producers made up to sell more tickets in the Depression, when Dish Night kind of played out. Eddie laughed. Now I think that all of us are born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You...Eddie, you fill me up.
~ Stephen King
Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally.
~ Jeff Buckley
I'm giving you this because there is not much that makes me happy any more, but you do.
~ Jojo Moyes
Department stores were a depressing no-no, as I no longer felt able to spend money.
~ Jojo Moyes
and it was a bit of relief to have a break from Lou's misery. Being around someone that depressed is a bit of a drain. You might feel sorry for them, but you can't help wanting to tell them to pull themselves together too.
~ Jojo Moyes
Es agotador estar junto a alguien tan deprimido. Aunque la compadezca, es inevitable sentir la sensación de decirle que se espabile.
~ Jojo Moyes
Depression, we had learned in the group, loves a vacuum. Far better to be doing, or at least planning. Sometimes the illusion of happiness could inadvertently create it.
~ Jojo Moyes
Millions of Americans would still despair in the eight long years of the Depression that lay ahead and many of their individual dreams would be dashed on the rocks of economic hardship. But collectively, the country was in a new place, with a new confidence that the federal government would actively try to solve problems rather than fiddle or cater to the rich. Hope was no longer for Pollyannas; the cynics about the American system were in retreat.
~ Jonathan Alter
I was deeply depressed. I felt my brain slipping out of its casing and down my neck, like an egg sliding on a frying pan. So
~ Jonathan Ames