Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Holmes

I became depressed and I cut my self with scissors and stuff.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.

Jay Leno

A new study found that people who are depressed have a greater risk of stroke. Well that should cheer them up.

Buzz Aldrin

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.

James Hillman

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

James Hillman

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

Euripides

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Lee H. Hamilton

depression that we haven't done better, that we didn't learn more than we did from 9/11.

Depression has many forms. You might get up in the morning and just as soon not face the day. You feel overwhelmed with it all and are continually feeling low.

Depression does not discriminate. It doesn't matter whether you are successful, it doesn't matter how intelligent you are, how rich you are, it can hit you at any time in your life.

A lot of people will try to understand depression but you find it takes time, it is very difficult.

Havelock Ellis

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.

Herman Melville

One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocence self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.

Herman Melville

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

Jerry Hall

We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.

Ian Mcewan

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

Hugh Laurie

It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.

Herbert Hoover

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

Herbert Hoover

Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.

Herbert Hoover

In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.

Herbert Hoover

Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.

Herbert Hoover

I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence.

Herbert Hoover

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.

Eugene Ionesco

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Ernest Hemingway

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

Florynce Kennedy

Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon.

Fiona Apple

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

Herbert Hoover

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

Jeffrey Sachs

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.