Depression Is Quotes

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

Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold.
- Mitch Albom

Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
- Adam Ant

Depression is boring, I think
and I would do better to make
some soup and light up the cave.
- Anne Sexton

Fella says today, 'Depression is over. I seen a jackrabbit, an' they wasn't nobody after him.' An' another fella says, 'That aint the reason. Can't afford to kill jackrabbits no more. Catch 'em and milk 'em an' turn 'em loose. One you seen prob'ly gone dry.
- John Steinbeck

Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.
- Tom Bosley

Depression is a physical illness.
- Terry Bradshaw

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
- Chuck Palahniuk

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.
- Chuck Palahniuk

We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
- Chuck Palahniuk

We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
- Chuck Palahniuk

Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.
- Richard J Codey

doldrums, n.
The proper verb for depression is sink.
- David Levithan

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
- Doug Coupland

I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say "This is it"? My depression is a harassed feeling. I'm looking: but that's not it that's not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?
- Virginia Woolf

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
- Jonathan Davis

Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really).
- John Green

But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
- John Green

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
- John Green

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. Its always there, though.
- Jeffrey Eugenides

Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.
- Claire Forlani

Depression is the inability to construct a future.
- Rollo May

If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.
Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they're going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.
- Stephen Fry

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.
- Judith Guest

It would be wise to be concerned about the introvert who is deprived of solitude. Is she neglecting herself due to depression? Is she falling victim to guilt and self-reproach? Does she feel cut off from pleasure? Does she feel dead?
- Laurie Helgoe

Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.
- J K Rowling

Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced.... It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.
- J K Rowling

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
- Barbara Kingsolver

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
- Barbara Kingsolver

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
- Anne Sullivan Macy

Depression is not madness, it's just depression, the loser version, the low-energy response to bad stuff that happens in your life. When you're depressed, you think you're the only one to have ever tasted this kind of hurt. And that lonely self-regard brings with it its own painful pleasure.
- Ana Menendez

Depression is a red herring," said Nariman. "I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. and there is not much percentage in the future.
- Rohinton Mistry

Depression isn't a bad word...but it can destroy. We must have hope we can save many...We must keep the faith that we can try to help all!
- Timothy Pina

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.
- Parker Posey

I know depression is anger turned inward.
- J M Roberts

Your depression is connected to your insolence
and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking
on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or woman
steals from others every day--is a shoplifter!
The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself.
Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline.
The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes.
The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close.
- Rumi

Depression is rage spread thin.
- George Santayana

Depression is anger turned inward.
- Sapphire

Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.
- Michael Schenker

The thing about depression is that, if you're not the one who's actually suffering from it, there's very little you can do to be proactive. If someone in your family is depressed, all you can really do is send them to the shrink, get them their meds, be gentle, and wait.
- Sarah Silverman

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
- Andrew Solomon

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.
- Andrew Solomon

The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on at the end of your life to make up for the disaster years. Whatever time is eaten by a depression is gone forever. The minutes that are ticking by as you experience the illness are minutes you will not know again.
- Andrew Solomon

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
- Susan Sontag

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.
- William Styron

Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.
- Miriam Toews

I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.
- Ned Vizzini

...depressive realism. Depression is not the near death experience described by so many, [Kayla Dunn] suggests, but a rebirth in which the new psyche has removed self-delusion. Compared with so-called healthy individuals, depressives are more realistic in their worldview.
- Jan Wong

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
- Stephen Wright

Depression is all about if you loved me you would. As in, if you loved me you would stop doing your schoolwork, stop going out drinking with your friends on a Saturday night, stop accepting starring roles in theater productions, and stop doing everything besides sitting here by my side and passing me Kleenex and aspirin while I lie and creak and cry and drown myself and you in my misery.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel

Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel