Famous Quotes & Sayings

Depression does not discriminate. It doesn't matter whether you are successful, it doesn't matter how intelligent you are, how rich you are, it can hit you at any time in your life.

Douglas Brinkley

Depressed and in physical pain from hip-replacement surgery, he started talking openly about suicide, polishing his .45-calibre pistol, his weapon of choice.

On top of everything, there are lots of rumors on Argentina, which depress the market a lot.

Electricity shares had been very depressed in past days.

James O'Shaughnessy

Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.

There was a combination of things that really depressed it. One was Hewlett-Packard's shortfall and we had a sympathetic sell-off using the political environment as a backdrop. Ironically, IBM remained the stalwart and it probably gave the notion of stability to the tech sector and we saw some people looking for bargains.

Our sense is that expectations are now so depressed that we are likely to see more upgrades than downgrades from this level. It has not been such good value since 2003.

At some point, I went to the studio and nothing happened. It can be really depressing to sit there and wait for the inspiration that doesn't come. I had to start recording rough song ideas before going to the studio. I did that at home whenever I had a good idea.

Dick Poplar plays a special part in my life ... Some folks say he was just a cook. Well, that is one of the most depressing things people say about the war. Because for every soldier that's in the field, there are 10 soldiers supporting them.

And we didn't even get the Mickey Mouse show gig, which made for a very depressing train ride back home to Boston.

A lot of people will try to understand depression but you find it takes time, it is very difficult.

John Miller

They (patients participating in support groups) are more likely to be complying with their medications, less likely to be depressed and actually in some studies people have quicker rehabilitation,

Steve Carell

You're telling me I have a gift for the pathetic. I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

Dan Hill

You succeed and accomplish and accomplish; the problem is when you stop, you become depressed because you could never do enough.

Ring Lardner

There isn't anything on earth as depressing as an old sportswriter.

It's kind of depressing when you lose like that. Teams like that, they win games like that. Seems like they always come out on top.

Jesse McCartney

It's kind of a dark, depressing film, but it's an incredibly written script,

Havelock Ellis

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.

Horace

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

Herman Melville

One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocence self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.

Herman Melville

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

Jerry Hall

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

Jeremy Collier

Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others.

Eugene Ionesco

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Ernest Hemingway

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

Etta James

A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

Ernest Holmes

Enthusiasm reaches out with joy, for there is nothing depressing about it; it reaches out in faith, for there is no fear in it; it reaches out with acceptance, for there is no doubt in it; it reaches out as a child for there is no uncertainty about it.

Florynce Kennedy

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.

Fiona Apple

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

Herbert Hoover

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

Gillian Flynn

I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival