Depression Quotes - Page 21

• If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Future, Insanity

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.272, Penguin

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• 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.

  Herbert Hoover

  Effort, Unity, Six Months

  Herbert Hoover (1930). “Address of President Hoover at the Annual Dinner of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States: Washington, D. C., Thursday, May 1, 1930, at 9:30”

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• All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Safe, Agents, May

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• Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

  Plato

  Class, Construction, States

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.246

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• In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Years, Gdp, Different

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• I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

  Walter Annenberg

  Feels

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• The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

  Peter Høeg

  Pain, Mind, Paper

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.501, Macmillan

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• I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.

  Ben Moody

  Leader, Band, Mental Illness

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• 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.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Mother, Suicide, Father

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

  Kelly Holmes

  Cutting, Self, Stuff

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• I yearned to get better; I told myself I was getting better. In fact, the depression was still there, like a powerful undertow. Sometimes it grabbed me, yanked me under; other times, I swam free.

  Tracy Thompson

  Powerful, Get Better, Facts

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• Having a mood disorder is not synonymous with having artistic talent, but it is true that people in the so-called creative professions-writers, actors, artists, musicians-have a higher than normal incidence of such illnesses, and there are also a disproportionate number of alcoholics in these fields whose drinking may be an attempt to medicate the anxiety of depression.

  Tracy Thompson

  Drinking, Artist, Numbers

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• I'm getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what's wrong. My friends give me invitations to talk, to cry. I love them for their caring, but I want to run from it. I have lost their language, their facility with words that convey feelings. I am in new territory and feel like a foreigner in theirs.

  Martha Manning

  Running, Caring, People

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• It's like a kettle. If it's a kettle, you turn the kettle off, you know what I mean? I wish I could put a hole in my head and let the steam come out. The steam was getting so high and the pressure was just getting a little bit much for me.

  Frank Bruno

  Mean, Wish, Littles

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• It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.

  Hugh Laurie

  Frustrated, Mental Illness

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• With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not. Sometimes I'd find myself bursting into tears for no reason.

  Keisha Buchanan

  Tears, Sometimes, Mental Illness

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• That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any more. I haven't been like that for a long time.

  Lenny Henry

  Home, Funny Things, Long

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• I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?

  Melinda Gates

  Suicidal, Thinking, Car

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• The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Average, Television, Mood

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• I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maintains its deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds.

  Hugo Wolf

  Heart, Sleep, Soul

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• The people on the QVC shopping channel convince me that life is worth living. They see the good in everything. People who go to counselling should actually go to a room with a QVC seller for half an hour and let them find the qualities within them. For example, they'd look at me and say, 'To anybody else this looks like a stomach but, actually, his feet never get wet in the rain.

  Johnny Vegas

  Rain, Shopping, Feet

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• I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?

  Julian Fellowes

  Thinking, People, Dreary

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• ... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.

  George Howe Colt

  Beautiful, Mental Illness, Unbalanced

  George Howe Colt (2006). “November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Believe, Men

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• You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people grow up sooner, many grow up later. Some never really do. But just remember that some people in this world are older versions of those same kids we cry for.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Mom, Growing Up, Dad

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