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“I
can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a
functional human, you know?”
- Ned Vizzini |
“That
terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known
as The Artist's Reward.”
- Ernest Hemingway |
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“Depression
can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and
they have hope and self-esteem.”
- David D. Burns |
“Depression
is the inability to construct a future.”
- Rollo May |
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“Depression
is rage spread thin.”
- George Santayana |
“Recession
is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.”
- Ronald Reagan |
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“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.”
- Siobhan Fahey
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“Since
I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken
pills for depression.”
- Amy Winehouse
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“The
Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was
produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability
of the private economy.”
- Milton Friedman
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“If
we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be
enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“I
start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an
ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long
as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.”
- Elizabeth Wurtzel |
“Our
Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual.
Our depression is our lives.”
- Chuck Palahniuk |
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“I've
had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk
about it, because it's over. But depression is real.”
- Henri Nouwen |
“Enthusiasm
is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed
enthusiasm.”
- Murray Gell-Mann |
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“You
largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you
can deconstruct it.”
- Albert Ellis
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“Concern
should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who
cannot control himself.”
- Pythagoras |
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“I've
had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression
would be a sellout, a defeat.”
- Christopher Hitchens |
“When
we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's
called a depression.”
- Jesse Jackson |
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“When
I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no
money.”
- Ray Bradbury |
“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.”
- Swami Sivananda |
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“It
was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all
others previously suffered.”
- Carroll O'Connor |
“Depression
is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.”
- Douglas Coupland |
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“Depression
is a physical illness.”
- Terry Bradshaw |
“Depression
opens the door to beauty of some kind.”
- James Hillman |
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“Depression
begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads
to discouragement.”
- Joyce Meyer |
“The
more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will
serve them.”
- Carlos Santana |
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“Depression
is something that makes you lose your sight.”
- Michael Schenker |
“Until
you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.”
- Geoffrey Boycott |
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“The
Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the
Chicken of Depression.”
- Gary Larson |
“I
think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.”
- Zooey Deschanel |
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“Art
saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place
of innocence.”
- Jeanette Winterson |
“In
a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.”
- Elizabeth Wurtzel |
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“Depression
is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.”
- Susan Sontag |
“I'm
the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.”
- Herbert Hoover |
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“Creative
people are more prone to depression.”
- Adam Ant |
“In
religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition
that can be cured with prayer.”
- Tony Campolo |
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“Depression
scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.”
- Siobhan Fahey |
“I
have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.”
- Adam Ant |
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“Concern
should drive us into action, not into a depression.”
- Karen Horney |
“Every
man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call
a man cold when he is only sad.”
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