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Feelings of inadequacy, gloom, despondency and prolonged negativity can strain your mood and trigger feelings of depression. Depression is a severe form of mental illness that afflicts majority of the population at least once in their lifetime. Depression distorts our thoughts and makes our life appear worthless. Depression not only has the power to ruin our relationships but can also distress our lives beyond repair. For more on famous depression quotations and sayings, read on.

Helen Reddy

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

Time
Helen Reddy
Dwayne Johnson

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you're not alone.

Lonliness
Dwayne Johnson
Bryce Dallas Howard

Do I wish I had never endured postpartum depression? Absolutely. But to deny the experience is to deny who I am.

Experience
Bryce Dallas Howard
Terri Guillemets

I used to love the darkness But the sun is my new best friend As soon as I embraced him He put my misery to an end.

Best Friend Love Sharing Darkness
Terri Guillemets
Amy Winehouse

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

Amy Winehouse
Harry S. Truman

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

Jobs
Harry S. Truman
Billie Eilish

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?

People
Billie Eilish
Bill Burr

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

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

World
Warren Buffett
Deepika Padukone

I have fought my own battle with depression, and it was important for me to bring a little awareness about it for others.

Battles
Deepika Padukone
Ron Howard

I've always been interested in the Depression as this very dramatic pivotal period in American history.

History
Ron Howard
Ben Shapiro

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.

Greatness Capitalism
Ben Shapiro
Jessie Buckley

When I was younger, about 15, I suffered badly from depression.

Jessie Buckley
Mike Wallace

You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed.

Mike Wallace
Ernest Hemingway

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

Good
Ernest Hemingway
Rachael Stirling

When you're on the verge of depression, a good leveller is to put one foot in front of the other and do some manual labour.

Good
Rachael Stirling

My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.

Children
Michelle Pfeiffer
Amy Winehouse

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

People
Amy Winehouse
RM

Our lyrics deal with real issues that face all humans: choices in life, depression, self-esteem. And the fans know that we are there for them, and they are there for us.

Life Face
RM
Betty White

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.

Money
Betty White
George Santayana

Depression is rage spread thin.

George Santayana

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.

Greatness Life
Ben Shapiro
George Michael

My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi.

George Michael
Winona Ryder

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

Time
Winona Ryder
Carrie Fisher

The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.

World
Carrie Fisher
Clint Eastwood

When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

Greatness Work
Clint Eastwood
Lou Holtz

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

Family Greatness
Lou Holtz
Gloria Steinem

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

Anger
Gloria Steinem
Brad Pitt

Depression is not interesting to watch.

Brad Pitt
Selena Gomez

I've discovered that anxiety, panic attacks, and depression can be side effects of lupus, which can present their own challenges.

Anxiety Challenges
Selena Gomez
Dick Van Dyke

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.

Nothing
Dick Van Dyke
Lady Gaga

I've suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

Life Anxiety
Lady Gaga
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.

Life
Kirsten Dunst
John McCain

You raise taxes during an economic crisis time, as we did in - back in the time of Herbert Hoover, you send the country into a depression.

Country Time
John McCain
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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.

People
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Christina Ricci

I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life.

Life People Struggles
Christina Ricci
Zooey Deschanel

I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.

Best
Zooey Deschanel
Matt Bomer

There was so much going on in 1936 with the height of the Great Depression and the Spanish Civil War and Germany on the move and all of those things. There was a tension in the air.

Greatness Things Wars
Matt Bomer

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'

Work
Joe Biden

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

Passover Domination Confidence Silence
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