Depression Quotes

If depression is creeping up and must be faced, learn something about the nature of the beast: You may escape without a mauling.

Dr. R. W. Shepherd

...Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling...People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Judith Guest

This depression was deep, and you don't climb out of anything as quick as you fall in.

Will Rogers

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

Johan Huizinga

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

Susan Sontag

Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during the period prior to the onset of the depression and that the depressed state represents a kind of hibernation, during which the patient gradually builds up a new story of energy.

Aaron T. Beck

Depression is rage spread thin.

George Santayana

Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.

Tom Bosley

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Grenville Kleiser

A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.

Geoffrey Norman

Depression is the inability to construct a future

Rollo May

Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts

Penelope Sweet

America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before.

Barack Obama

My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.

Soren kierkegaard

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

Tom Bosley
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