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• I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

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  Tags in Self, Depression

• Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.

  David D. Burns

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• The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.

  Daniel Goleman

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  Tags in Mind, Depression

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

  Brad Paisley

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• It’s like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it’s not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on.

  Bob Geldof

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• I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

  Bob Cousy

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  Tags in Depression, Heart

• Although, my experience when I’ve been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I’m too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you’re halfway away from it.

  Paul Westerberg

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Depression

• Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.

  Ben Shalom Bernanke

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• I think one of the lessons of the Depression – and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated – was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.

  Ben Shalom Bernanke

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• How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?

  Ben Shalom Bernanke

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• But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

  Frances Perkins

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Depression, Measure

• It’s a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you’ve been trained as a classical theatre actor. There’s always a depression in the theatre.

  Frances McDormand

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  Tags in Depression, Theatre, Actor

• Depression is melancholy minus its charms – the animation, the fits.

  Susan Sontag

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• I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression.

  Stuart Appleby

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• Depression is rage spread thin.

  George Santayana

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• The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it’s now more commonly called, is that it’s about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one’s a depressive. The point is, one’s a manic-depressive.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Depression, Disorder

• Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.

  Siobhan Fahey

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  Tags in People, Depression

• If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it’s the only thing that can save you.

  Siobhan Fahey

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• I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don’t have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.

  Shelby Foote

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• Joining another big time rock band was the last thing I was looking for, but as the tour went on, I really dug playing to a lot of people, the band sounded great, and just being out there again, got me over my depression and so I decided to hop on board.

  Matt Cameron

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  Tags in Tour, Depression, Rock