Famous Quotes & Sayings

Research shows that a woman who has a history of depression is twice as likely to subsequently experience infertility as a woman with no history of depression.

Carrie Fisher

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

Anthony Storr

Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.

It is a recession when your neighbor has lost his job. It is a depression when you have lost yours

Pete Fountain

I think maybe it was just depression about all the stuff that happened. All the things we lost. All the disruption. And then you look around and see all the stuff still messed up. It just sort of grinds you down.

It can lead to depression and even suicide.

Andrea Yates

because she was having depression from having kids.

If it was to develop into a depression tonight or tomorrow, it could develop into a tropical storm.

Mat Rogers

He was suffering from some depression and, as a person of his stature and a public figure, he found it really hard to talk about it to other people and therefore exacerbated the problem.

Blaise Pascal

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Charles Spurgeon

Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.

Charles Spurgeon

Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.

Art Buchwald

Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life.

C. S. Lewis

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

C. S. Lewis

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Carroll O'Connor

It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.

Carroll Quigley

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.

Alan Lightman

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

Alan Cumming

I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I'm talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog. You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.

Elizabeth Bowen

Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our banter from utter banality.

Abraham Lincoln

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

Abraham Lincoln

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.

She had a lot of depression in her life, but she didn't want to share it with anyone.

Ben Moody

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

Barbara Kingsolver

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

Barbara Kingsolver

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

Edgar Allan Poe

I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure but the solitary communion with the 'mountains & the woods'-the 'altars' of Byron. I have thus rambled and dreamed away whole months, and awake, at last, to a sort of mania for composition. Then I scribble all day, and read all night, so long as the disease endures.

Edgar Allan Poe

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

Aristotle

Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?

Alexander Lowen

Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel against the roles we play for fear of putting our sanity in doubt.

A. J. P. Taylor

Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.

A. A. Milne

We can’t all and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.

A. A. Milne

The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?" and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about.