No power in society no hardship in your condition can depress you keep you down in knowledge power virtue influence but by your own consent.

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk I would just be depressed all the time.

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington the place we learned to despise during the last administration.

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God I know there's a God.

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

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober he was mostly in his room.

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

In the history of the treatment of depression there was the dunking stool purging of the bowels of black bile hoses attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.

I can understand why some people might look at me and say 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness because I am often down and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness it helps to know unhappiness.

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

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.

Our Generation has had no Great war no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The Great Depression like most other periods of severe unemployment was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get I'll never be as good as a wall.

I found when I left that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet they'd come and seek me out we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

During the Great Depression when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.