Famous Depression quotes

The world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it. Helen Keller

Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead. Tennessee Williams

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. Anatole Franc

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Marcel Proust

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain. William Faulkner

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. Franz Kafka

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

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Fear is the path to the Dark Side - fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Yoda

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. Thich Nhat Hanh

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. Homer

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.   Arthur Schopenhauer

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. Henri Amiel

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity. Periander

To perceive is to suffer. Aristotle

We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full. Marcel Proust

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel. Mother Teresa

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. Franz Kafka

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. Robert Ingersoll