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- Nov 07, 2020
Depression Quotes
Words for the weight that doesn't always show.
Some of these lines admit to depression outright, others just gesture at a mood that's hard to name — the range runs from someone owning up to mild depression to reflections on hard financial seasons people call their own Depression. If anxiety feels closer to what you're carrying, our Anxiety quotes might fit better.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel the depression the people who are always looking back to the '50s, to 'Father Knows Best' feel. I can see the coming of another glorious era.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both parents worshiped individual achievement, but because of the Depression and the war, they never achieved what they wanted and deserved. So their ambition and high expectations were transferred to me.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to talk about childhood trauma. It's hard to talk about depression. It's hard to talk about anxiety. And we thought - I wonder if we just open up our subconscious and the things that we think about and hide from people every day and just let them come out in some of these lyrics.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandma was a child of the Depression, and knew the tragedy of having her home outside Diller was destroyed by a tornado.
- Great Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During the 1930s, when the entire American economy fell into a government-owned alligator moat, crime was nearly non-existent. During the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was excellent, crime rose again.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
- Franklin Roosevelt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.
- Understand
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.
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- Nov 07, 2020