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

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.

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

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.

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.

I can do comedy so people want me to do that but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst and then we enter depression? Well some things are not different.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.