If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill.
Jalaluddin RumiIf you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
Lao TzuEveryone can master a grief but he that has it.
William ShakespeareThe miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.
William ShakespeareYou can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
BuddhaWe are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.
Kahlil GibranThere are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
Mark TwainOnce I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen KellerIt's a recession when your neighbor loses his job, it's a depression when you lose yours.
Harry S. TrumanTired with all these, for restful death I cry.
William ShakespeareTo a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
F. Scott FitzgeraldSometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
Mark TwainPoverty entails fear and stress, and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
J. K. RowlingDepression is when you have lots of love but no one's taking.
Doug CouplandThe chief problem about death incidentally is the fear that there may be no afterlife -- a depressing thought particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held
Woody AllenWhen I graduated from high school it was during the Depression and we had no money.
Ray BradburyIf 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. RooseveltI was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.
Lady GagaThere is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
Gertrude SteinI had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
Albert EllisRecession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
Ronald ReaganWhat may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person especially if he has had between four and seven beers.
Dave BarryIt was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.
Carroll O'ConnorI don't feel depressed. I feel elated.
Richard DawkinsThe polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.
Rush LimbaughHe was so depressed he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.
Woody AllenI can't not write if I don't then I get really depressed.
Alanis MorissetteBe courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Thomas A. EdisonI guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
Will RogersI say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.
Bob DylanGreed affects the mind, disappointment makes man depressed.
Sai BabaYou largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore you can deconstruct it.
Albert EllisIf a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed.
Colin PowellDepression is rage spread thin.
George SantayanaI do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?
Carroll O'ConnorI find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently I get really depressed.
Alanis MorissetteI'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock musician writer poet philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.
Alanis Morissette