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• I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate it. 'Madness' is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting, too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depression.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Hate, People, Interesting

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

  C. L. R. James

  People, Profound, Development

  "In the International Tradition:Tasks Ahead for American Labor" by C. L. R. James, 1944.

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• It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Made, Inevitable

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• But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

  Frances Perkins

  Progress, Stopping, Way

  On the depression of the1930s which inspired her to set up the Social Security system. Recalled on her death,14 May1965.

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• If 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. Roosevelt

  Heart, Years, People

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.58, Best Books on

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• I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression.

  Stuart Appleby

  People, Overcoming, I Can

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Inability To Love, Confusion

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• This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Cute, Happiness

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• Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Love, Knowing, Insanity

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Soul, Touching, Bipolar

  Jimi Hendrix, Roger St. Pierre (1986). “Jimi Hendrix: recorded poems”

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• Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during the period prior to the onset of the depression and that the depressed state represents a kind of hibernation, during which the patient gradually builds up a new story of energy.

  Aaron T. Beck

  Energy, Hibernation, Stories

  Aaron T. Beck (1967). “Depression: Clinical, Experimental, and Theoretical Aspects”, p.36, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.

  Anthony Storr

  Men, Odds, Leader

  Anthony Storr (1990). “Churchill's Black Dog, Kafka's Mice, and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind”

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• Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Uplifting, Commitment, Get Better

  "Depression and My Lifesavers" by Susan Polis Schutz, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2010.

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• I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.

  Glenn Gould

  Depressing, Color, Sky

  "The Life and Times of Glenn Gould". Documentary, March 13, 1998.

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• America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before.

  Barack Obama

  War, Struggle, Land

  Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

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• Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease.

  Judith Peacock

  Cancer, Heart, Disease

  Judith Peacock, Jackie Casey (2000). “Depression”, p.4, Capstone

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• Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.

  Al Alvarez

  Disappointment, Relaxation, Layers

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• For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

  Kirstie Alley

  People, Reason, Born

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• I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

  Jennifer Lynch

  Talking, Insane, Gone

  Jennifer Lynch (2011). “The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Because that's the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don't want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lunges. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It's mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Long, Let It Go, Comfort

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• I want to apologize for plaguing you with so many telephone calls last November and December. When the 'enthusiasm' is coming on me it is accompanied by a feverish reaching out to my friends. After its over I wince and wither.

  Robert Lowell

  Bipolar, Want, Enthusiasm

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• The Failure of Will theory is equally popular with people who are not depressed. Get out and take your mind off yourself, they say. You're too self-absorbed. This is just about the stupidest thing you can say to a depressed person, and it is said every day to depressed people all over this country. And if it isn't that, it's Shut up and take your Prozac.

  Chase Twichell

  Country, Depressed Person, Self

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• She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.

  Patricia Briggs

  Despair, Harder

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• I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.

  Sylvia Plath

  Taken, Eye, Glasses

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.53, Hamilton Books

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• To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it.

  Claude Monet

  Stupid, Sunshine, Gone

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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