Depression Quotes
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If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears. (Quote by - John Gay)
Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression. (Quote by - Robert Johnson)
Depression is the inability to construct a future. (Quote by - Rollo May)
Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts (Quote by - Penelope Sweet)
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it. (Quote by - Albert Ellis)
If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power. (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)
Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from normal experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain ... it is entirely natural that the victim begins to think ceaselessly of oblivion. (Quote by - WILLIAM STYRON)
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else. (Quote by - Arnold Bennett)
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. (Quote by - Barack Obama)
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. (Quote by - Bertrand Wilbertforce)
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. (Quote by - Steven Wright)
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer. (Quote by - DOROTHY ROWE)
Depression is rage spread thin. (Quote by - George Santayana)
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. (Quote by - Grenville Kleiser)
My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle. (Quote by - Patty Duke)
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. (Quote by - Pythagoras)
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. (Quote by - Dodie Smith)
The best insurance policy for tomorrow is to make the most productive use of today. A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work. (Quote by - Geoffrey Norman)
Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease. (Quote by - Judith Peacock)
I find nothing more depressing than optimism. (Quote by - Paul Fussell)
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own. (Quote by - Harry S. Truman)
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. (Quote by - Judith Guest)
Depression is inertia. (Quote by - Dr. Wayne Dyer)
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. (Quote by - Aaron T. Beck)
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape. (Quote by - Leonard Cohen)
This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. (Quote by - Charlie Brown)
Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men. (Quote by - Bruce Barton)
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by mself. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. (Quote by - Jesse Jackson)
A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work. (Quote by - Geoffrey Norman)
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. (Quote by - Socrates)
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth,?and then we are angry at being undervalued. (Quote by - Julia Margaret Cameron)
It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions (Quote by - Art Rust)
The one who keeps the stars in their place can keep us in our place. There is no depression for good deeds, and that is all that business consists of, and that is our real business. (Quote by - Henry N. Kost)
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. (Quote by - Elayne Boosler)
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love. (Quote by - Soren kierkegaard)
Such a little man could not have made so big a depression. (Quote by - Hubert Hoover)
Please understand there is no depression in this house and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist. (Quote by - Victoria, Queen of England)
The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed. (Quote by - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
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. (Quote by - Elizabeth Wurtzel)
If you are cold, tea will warm you; If you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you. (Quote by - Gladstone)
Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not. (Quote by - Tom Bosley)
If depression is creeping up and must be faced, learn something about the nature of the beast: You may escape without a mauling. (Quote by - Dr. R. W. Shepherd)
Depression is a choice. (Quote by - A.B. Curtiss)
