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“Without depression and anxiety, I would not be who I am; a person who can see beauty and humour in the smallest and least likely of things; appreciating others kindness tenfold. When the black clouds of despair descend and life seems pointless I try to remember that one day in the future, perhaps this very day, a gentle breeze will blow the clouds away and allow the sunshine in. When that happens the world is a new and magical place and I wish to live forever.”
Irene Grodecki
“Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.”
Ronald Reagan
“Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.”
Joseph Heller
“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.”
Zig Ziglar
“What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.”
Dave Barry
“Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.”
William Styron
“If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.”
Dr. Rollo May
“I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.”
Will Rogers
“The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.”
Gary Larson
