Deep Depression

Famous quotes containing the words deep depression, deep and/or depression:

    “When you realize how hard it is to know the truth about yourself, you understand that even the most exhaustive and well-meaning autobiography, determined to tell the truth, represents, at best, a guess. There have been times in my life when I felt incredibly happy. Life was full. I seemed productive. Then I thought,”Am I really happy or am I merely masking a deep depression with frantic activity?” If I don’t know such basic things about myself, who does?”
    —Phyllis Rose (b. 1942)

    “I’ll read you matter deep and dangerous,
    As full of peril and adventurous spirit
    As to o’erwalk a current roaring loud
    On the unsteadfast footing of a spear.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.”
    —Leonard Cohen (b. 1934)