"It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered."

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"I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn't feel a thing. If Mrs Guinea had given me a ticket to Europe, or a round-the-world cruise, it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or a street cafe in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Depression, Isolation, Emotion, Truth

"I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression."

Rube Goldberg, American Cartoonist

Depression, Idiots, Moments

"Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future."

Sivananda, Indian Scientist

Depression, Future, Grief, Mind

"I lived in a really dark place. I wasn't safe in my own mind. I woke up every morning hoping to die and then spent the rest of the day wondering if maybe I was already dead because I couldn't even tell the difference."

Tahereh Mafi, Iranian Author

Depression, Despair, Darkness, Mental Health, Awareness

"We'll take up where we left off, Esther', she had said, with her sweet martyr's smile. 'We'll act as if all this were a bad dream.' A bad dream. To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.A bad dream. I remembered everything."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Depression, Dream, Despair, Memory, Truth

"That is how I experience life, as apocalypse and cataclysm. Each day brings an increasing inability in myself to make the smallest gesture, even to imagine myself confronting clear, real situations.The presence of others - always such an unexpected event for the soul - grows daily more painful and distressing. Talking to others makes me shudder. If they show any interest in me, I flee. If they look at me, I tremble.I am constantly on the defensive. Life and other people bruise me. I can't look reality in the eye. The sun itself leaves me feeling discouraged and desolate."

Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Author

Depression, Despair, Isolation, Anxiety, Existence

"Lucas felt uncommonly depressed and careless. Drunkenness, in a man like August Hay, melts the restraints on cheerfulness. On the contrary with Lucas: he kept up courage consciously. Sap his mind, and the lid was lifted from a cesspool of muddy colors."

John Updike, American Novelist

Depression, Alcohol, Mind, Struggle

"Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low."

Parris Glendening, American Politician

Depression, Rivers, State, Water

"Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States."

Martin Denny, American Musician

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"Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome."

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"I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?"

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"My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?"

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"We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show."

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"All in the Family was intellectual; it was art."

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"The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable."

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"Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs."

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"The wages of pedantry is pain."

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"One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made."

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"Even a true artist does not always produce art."

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