#depression

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. ↗

— Helena Petrova Blavatsky

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Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness. ↗

— Dewitt Bodeen

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I'm what you call a Depression sailor. ↗

— Ernest Borgnine

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We're all well-acquainted with depression, we all know what the low moods are, but the mania was not something I knew much about. I didn't know that it would make someone dress extravagantly or start to pun, and to stay up and drink. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

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If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

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Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#effect #kind #laugh #makes #me

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#america #bold #competition #depression #design

Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way. ↗

— Elliott Carter

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The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

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