Depression Quotes

When you feel that unpleasant darkness invading your mind, read this book and these stories will help you return to the light and warmth of life.

Poverty in western Mexico is an Unconditional Sentence.

Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the capitalist’. Period.

Go home now, ” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.”“What are we going to need it for?” asks a voice from the crowd.“For guns and ammunition, ” says I.

What do you see out there?” I ask. “Pittsburgh, ” he replies. Now I laugh. “No, young man. What you see is hell with the lid taken off.” — Mother Jones

Someone made a grievous mistake when summer was created

Not every emotion deserves the same attention

If people feel lost and alone and helpless and broken and hopeless today, what will it be like if the world really begins to come apart at the hinges?

The mind that constantly wanders through the past is always a terrible mess.

There exist no new mistakes anywhere. The same mistakes people committed are the same mistakes people are committing and the same mistakes shall people commit

To fit the individual to live and to function in the institutional life of his day.

You shall not be afraid to hear bad news. God will strengthen you.

Nobody can go back to how it was. The dust bowl dried us all up bitter as seeds and spat us out all over the land and none of us yet has taken root.

Life can sometimes get the best of you but your state of mind determines your outcome.

There are times in life when you must seclude yourself and battle your thoughts. There are also times when you must call in the troops. The key is knowing when to make the call.

you will perhaps missthe part of you that is gonebut do not fear:all is for the best in the worldand soon you will not realize it is gone:you have either forgotten it entirely orit has come backalive

I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.

With each day that our huge ship was on the ocean, my sense of being further and further away from my loved ones, my home, and my environment grew stronger.

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.

After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression.

Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made things worse.

We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct.

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears, ' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.

An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.

The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.

I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.

Mental health can be just as important as physical health - and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.

The proper governmental policy in a depression is strict laissez-faire, including stringent budget slashing, and coupled perhaps with positive encouragement for credit contraction.

I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.

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

I always wanted to see people's lives transformed from depression and anxiety to joy and peace.

In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame because I just decided to be happy.

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

What's often not acknowledged about depression is how much anger is in it.

You want to keep the severity of our environmental problems in mind enough to keep yourself motivated but not enough to paralyze you into depression.