Quotes on Depression

I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2.

Author: Ned Beatty

I'm what you call a Depression sailor.

Author: Ernest Borgnine

Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.

Author: Ray Brown

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.

Author: Leonard Cohen

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.

Author: Judy Collins

Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States.

Author: Martin Denny

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

Author: Patty Duke

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

Author: Albert Ellis

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

Author: Siobhan Fahey

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

Author: Claire Forlani

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.

Author: Tom Glazer

Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

Author: Parris Glendening

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

Author: Rube Goldberg

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

Author: Jerry Hall

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

Author: James Hillman

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

Author: Herbert Hoover

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

Author: Jesse Jackson

The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes.

Author: Art Linkletter

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Author: Rollo May

It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.

Author: Carroll O'Connor

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

Author: Brad Paisley

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Author: Ronald Reagan

In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

Author: Orville Redenbacher

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.

Author: Jeffrey Sachs

Depression is rage spread thin.

Author: George Santayana

Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.

Author: Michael Schenker

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Author: Sivananda

Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression.

Author: Stuart Symington

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

Author: Harry Truman

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

Author: William Vickrey