I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living as dairy farmers their whole life. At least two drought cycles nearly took it all away. They just worked harder, longer... and they made it.
— Bob Beauprez
Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.
— Bjork
I've battled with that type of stuff, but what I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned about depression and how to combat it. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it.
— Bill Burr
It's hard to talk about childhood trauma. It's hard to talk about depression. It's hard to talk about anxiety. And we thought - I wonder if we just open up our subconscious and the things that we think about and hide from people every day and just let them come out in some of these lyrics.
— Benji Madden
I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on.
— Ben Shahn
After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is.
— Ben Fountain
People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made things worse.
— Ben Bernanke
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.
How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?
This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.
— Barry Eichengreen
I always thought I was depressive, and I only recently realized that I have more of an anxiety disorder than chronic depression.
— Autre Ne Veut
We've gone through rounds of tax cutting and rounds of tax increases in modern U.S. history. We haven't really had a big igniting of a trade war belligerence since the Depression era, and that's not an era that we want to repeat.
— Austan Goolsbee
As we learned after President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley tariff at the outset of the Great Depression, vibrant international trade is a key component to economic recovery; hindering trade is a recipe for disaster.
— Asa Hutchinson
The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes.
— Art Linkletter
Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.
— Arlie Russell Hochschild
I think a certain amount of depression is sort of a normal state of mind to have. Deep depression is another story - and I wouldn't say I've been quite there, but you know I have been quite down at times, I have not wanted to leave the house for days on end.
— Ardal O'Hanlon
I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.
— Ann Richards
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
— Bo Burnham
Depression is something I've lived with since I was a teenager.
— Billy Howle
During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.
— Betty White
During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During the 1930s, when the entire American economy fell into a government-owned alligator moat, crime was nearly non-existent. During the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was excellent, crime rose again.
— Ben Shapiro
The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.
The disturbing truth we have to recognize is that Bourdain is not alone in his loneliness and depression.
— Ben Domenech
I don't know why there aren't more Depression buffs.
If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.
My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.
— Bea Arthur
I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II.
— Ayelet Waldman
Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.
— Austin Butler
Depression can take you into a black hole, so it is terrible.
— Asha Parekh
We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.
— Arthur Laffer
I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff.
— Art Alexakis
In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.
— Ariel Gore
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
— Anne Sullivan
It is obvious, in retrospect, to lean on those who love us most. With depression, in part because of the shame attached to it, it's harder to be honest.
— Andy Dunn
The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
— Bo Bennett
I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don't. If you have that inside of you and can't get it out, what do you do?
— Billie Eilish
Usually, I use writing as a way to figure out things about me, and I get scared pretty easily about everything. I deal with a lot of depression, so I usually use it as way to find some relief from that.
— Beth Hart
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
My grandma was a child of the Depression, and knew the tragedy of having her home outside Diller was destroyed by a tornado.
— Ben Sasse
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.
— Ben Carson
The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression.
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.
The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
I have a master's in psychology, and depression and anxiety are considered to be cyclical.
I battle with things like depression in my life, I battle with things like anxiety, I battle with things like attention deficit disorder, and I ignored them all.
— Austin Aries
I lost my parents. I was totally alone and I had to manage everything all alone. It did put me in depression.
The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.
— Arthur Henderson
I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help.
— Aron Ralston
When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.
It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money.
— Ann Rutherford
