Murray Gell-Mann - Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.
Kay Redfield Jamison - In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.
Margo Jefferson - Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.
Steny Hoyer - But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.
Dorothy Hamill - My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.
Douglas Wilson - Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.
Elbert Hubbard - God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
James Madison - The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
Marian Wright Edelman - Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
Elizabeth Blackwell - The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
John F. Kennedy - It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
Washed Out - I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
John Updike - I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.
Andrew Solomon - Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.
Shirley Manson - The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.
Adrien Brody - I was depressed for a year after 'The Pianist,' and I don't suffer from that, generally. It wasn't just a depression; it was a mourning.
Dick Cavett - Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
Ben Shapiro - It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
Amy Grant - I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.
Spike Milligan - As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease, really - more an illness.
Jennifer Ellison - I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.
Kirsten Dunst - I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird.
Andrew Weil - The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.
Ricky Hatton - Depression is a serious thing and, after my defeat to Pacquiao, I was facing retirement and didn't cope with it very well.
Claire Tomalin - When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.
Albert Ellis - You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
Andrew Solomon - I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.
Vidal Sassoon - I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
Rosalynn Carter - My mother made all of our clothes, my friends' mothers made all of their clothes. This was the Depression.
Rick Springfield - You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.
Andrew Flintoff - I'll be fine, and suddenly I'll feel the depression coming on. It can start with the smallest thing.
Ron Howard - I've always been interested in the Depression as this very dramatic pivotal period in American history.
Alexandra Stoddard - Colors are important. People are in clinical depression whether they are on medication or not. Neutrals are another form of medication.
Amy Winehouse - I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.
Peter Schiff - What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.
Ann Richards - I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.
Patty Duke - Bipolar indicates that you're not - you don't just experience depression, but the mood swing goes up, and it can go very up.
Tom Glazer - I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression.
Dominick Cruz - I'm not always 'Dominick Cruz, Tough Guy.' Depression runs in my bloodline.
Gayle Forman - Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.
Kay Redfield Jamison - One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.
Kirstie Alley - For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.
Larry Elder - Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
Frances McDormand - I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.
Ji-Hae Park - When you are in depression, almost magically, nothing motivates you.
Henri Nouwen - I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.
Frances McDormand - 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.
Bugzy Malone - What I found with depression was that it occurred when I was lying dormant, when I had nothing better to do.
Robert Smith - It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.
Ben Bernanke - If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.
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