#depress

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#almost #anything #being #cage #compounds

When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available. ↗

— Tina Yothers

#anything #available #begun #could #dance

It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there. ↗

— Jami Gertz

#around #because #depressing #drive #fourteen

We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression. ↗

— Jerry Hall

#exist #know #pain #some #without

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it? ↗

— Kathleen Hanna

#because #depressed #experienced #forms #get

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

— Ernest Hemingway

#artist #depression #good #known #mood

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. ↗

— James Hillman

#attempts #black #bowels #depression #hatred

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable. ↗

— James Hillman

#damn #depression #down #dysfunction #functioning

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind. ↗

— James Hillman

#depression #door #kind #opens #some

The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world? ↗

— James Hillman

#away #being #car #children #competitive