Depression Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• 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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• One of the most common outcomes of a depressive illness is a mistreated body. Now is the time to treat your body well. The more you learn to treat yourself well now, the less treatment you'll need down the road.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Needs, Body, Outcomes

  Harold H. Bloomfield, Peter McWilliams (1996). “How to Heal Depression”, Mary Book / Prelude Pr

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• Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful.

  Giles Andreae

  Believe, People, Tragedy

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• Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

  Marcel Proust

  Happiness, Sympathy, Grief

  A la recherche du temps perdu: Le Temps retrouve Vol. 2, Ch. 3

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• If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Fighting, Sinking, Lifelong

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

  John Steinbeck

  Self, Mental Illness, Capacity

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.12, Penguin

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• When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Reality, Mad, Bipolar

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out.

  Virginia Heffernan

  Thinking, People, Dialect

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

  Brad Paisley

  Dark, Stuff, George Jones

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can have manic depression without having an ounce of creativity

  Patty Duke

  Creativity, Bipolar, Manic

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

  Claire Forlani

  Suicide

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• I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.

  Winston Churchill

  Water, Bipolar, Looks

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• I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression.

  Tom Glazer

  Senior, Jobs, College

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• But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is decimated, your mortification complete: mania is not a luxury one can easily afford. It is devastating to have the illness and aggravating to have to pay for medications, blood tests, and psychotherapy. They, at least, are partially deductible. But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Loss, Luxury, Blood

  Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison (2007). “Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression”, p.40, Oxford University Press

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• It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit between its teeth. My mother taught me to gentle it; gave me the discipline and love to break it; and- as Alexander had known so intuitively with Bucephalus- she understood, and taught me, that the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Mother, Horse, Father

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• He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

  Dennis Lehane

  Numbness, Weary, Clinicals

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• I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth.

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, Form

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• I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went o r you didn't, but the fact of it and the decisions it forced us to make marked us for the rest of our lives, just as the depression and World War II had marked my parents.

  Linda Grant

  War, Decision, Parent

  Linda Grant (1991). “Blind Trust”, Fawcett Books

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• Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation, the wait, the growing heaviness (not of body in this case but of the spirit and the manuscript) toward the end, the initial delight at the sight of the product, fully formed and seemingly perfect, and then the usual postpartum depression. What will people whose opinion I care about, and those whose views I don't value but have weight in the world of reader, think of it?

  Doris Grumbach

  Baby, Book, Thinking

  Doris Grumbach (2014). “Extra Innings: A Memoir”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said "On the line!" The Reconstruction said "Go!" I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Daughter, Struggle, Successful

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• 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.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Moving, Daddy, Political

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between that person and death knows this, as does whoever has fallen into the catastrophe of a deep depression, anyone who has loved a woman to the dregs, anyone who has beaten others bloody or ever come up behind another person with muscles trembling. "Losing one's head," language calls it. Emotional experience is, in itself, poor in qualities; qualities are brought to it by the person who has the experience.

  Robert Musil

  Strong, Emotional, Quality

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

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