Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity.
— Eugene Fama
I'm naturally a very happy person, but I've had times with depression and have got through it with therapy.
— Emily Atack
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it.
— Elizabeth Warren
The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Americans did not suffer alone. World trade overall fell two-thirds in the first few years of the Depression.
— Elaine Chao
In the Great Depression, employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial polices changed.
— Edward C. Prescott
I've had a panic disorder since I was sixteen, and they always said that's a subset of depression. And I'm like, 'I don't have depression.'
— Duff McKagan
Stories come and go. The challenge is to frame the questions that voters will be asking on polling day, such as who has avoided a global depression and worked here to deliver jobs.
— Douglas Alexander
A lot of people who have depression understand that the last thing in the world you want to do when you're feeling that way is get up and exercise. It's virtually impossible to do that. It's like somebody beating you.
— Dorothy Hamill
I'm not always 'Dominick Cruz, Tough Guy.' Depression runs in my bloodline.
— Dominick Cruz
I think there's loads of undiagnosed depression where I came from. Post-traumatic stress disorder as well. Some of the things you see as a kid are like the things you'd expect to see in a war zone, but there's no one to talk to about it because running to a psychiatrist ain't the thing.
— Dizzee Rascal
Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
— Dick Cavett
The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, 'You saved my dad's life.'
My parents were both born in 1930. They grew up during the Depression. They wanted their children to have secure lives, to have a good salary and a pension plan. If I could've guaranteed that I'd be a best-selling writer, that would've been one thing, but nobody could say that. So I knew better than to say that was ambition.
— Diana Gabaldon
People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, and their families feel a sense of shame about it, which doesn't help. One needs support and understanding. I am now working on an initiative to create awareness about anxiety and depression and help people.
— Deepika Padukone
I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.
— David Thewlis
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
— Ernest Hemingway
The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.
— Emanuel Celler
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.
We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct.
— Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
At the beginning of 'A Christmas Carol,' Scrooge embodies one of the central tenets of depression: that one has always been this way - and always will be.
— Elif Batuman
Consider trade protectionism. It's been tried - and found wanting - since the Great Depression.
Researchers consistently find that most older volunteers, when compared to older nonvolunteers, have fewer functional and physical impairments, overall better health, higher life satisfaction and less depression. In addition, they attend religious services more frequently and belong to more social organizations.
— Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
— Douglas Coupland
At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.
I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. My mother's battled depression, so I understand it now as a parent, some of the things that she must have been going through.
Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.
— Dolly Parton
Kids in the entertainment industry are at a risk of developing depression, as they see glamour at an early age.
— Divyanka Tripathi
It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
We need comprehensive immigration reform so that we're not creating this cycle of poverty and depression and everything that comes with separating a family.
— Diane Guerrero
A middle child, I was born in the depths of the Great Depression. My dad and mom were factory workers, struggling to make ends meet.
— Dennis L. McKiernan
Earlier in my life, I had a tendency toward depression.
— Dean Ornish
Bill Hewlett and I were brought up in the Depression. We weren't interested in the idea of making any money. Our idea was if you couldn't find a job, you'd make one for yourself.
— David Packard
I'm what you call a Depression sailor.
— Ernest Borgnine
I have anxiety and have had depression in the past.
— Ella Purnell
That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.
When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already knew that I wouldn't.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their social views.
— Eli Broad
Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.
— Edward Hirsch
I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you're not alone.
— Dwayne Johnson
Broadcast radio was entering its own golden age during the Depression, with live programming on stations all through the day. Local stations needed singers, musicians, announcers, and whipcord personalities, along with Christian clergy to give prayers and pundits to speak on world affairs.
— Douglas Brinkley
My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.
You never know what they're going through. Maybe they failed a test. Maybe they're going through a state of depression. Kids go through so much.
— Donovan Mitchell
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
— Dodie Smith
My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it.
— Dick Van Dyke
Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.
I went through depression, which is something that we don't often talk about when we look at undocumented communities and deported families.
I have fought my own battle with depression, and it was important for me to bring a little awareness about it for others.
Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.
— David Ulevitch
