Depression Quotes

I think I suffer from some mild depression.
Zach Braff

My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.
Michelle Pfeiffer

Children, Real, Her

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.
Kirstie Alley

Reason, Act, Born

I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.
Brooke Shields

Smile, Beautiful, Girl

How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?
Ben Bernanke

Second, Pay, Avoid

I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.
Ben Bernanke

Try, Willing, Approach

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.
Ben Bernanke

Great, Crisis, Result

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.
Adam Ant

Society, Stress, Black

I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price.
Mika Brzezinski

Marriage, Made, Two

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Great, Hope, Might

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.
Mike Mills

Failure, Sadness, Important

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.
Tony Curtis

Life, Good, Saying

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

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.
Patty Duke

Miracle, Evolution, Sudden

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
Larry Elder

Age, Great, Mother

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

Happy, Live, Lives

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.
Nick Rahall

Great, War, Through

It's so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don't have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head.
Kelly Osbourne

Work, Money, Home

As a teenager, even as a younger girl, I had some depression but no one really noticed that it was depression nor did I know in those days that that's what it was but I did feel different from other people.
Linda Hamilton

Girl, Different, Days

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.
Brad Paisley

Dark, Stuff, Imagine

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.
Ann Richards

Born, Community, Listening

When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available.
Tina Yothers

Reality, Dance, Off

My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses.
Richard M. Daley

Life, Dad, Father

They really do a disservice because these men and women came out of the Depression, they came out of the war.
Richard M. Daley

Women, Men, War

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.
Russ Carnahan

Great, Design, America

If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.
Judy Collins

Help, Start, Found

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.
William Vickrey

End, Holy, Economy

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.
John Mellencamp

Time, Great, Truth

I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.
Michael Ian Black

Age, Trying, Against

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
Winona Ryder

Time, Crazy, Through

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