The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

- Anne Sullivan

I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.

- Andy Behrman

Colors are important. People are in clinical depression whether they are on medication or not. Neutrals are another form of medication.

- Alexandra Stoddard

I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II.

- Ayelet Waldman

I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.

- Amy Grant

If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don't mind living in that state, but I don't want to be there anymore. I don't want to live in a state of depression.

- Alan Arkin

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

- Adam Ant

Creative people are more prone to depression.

- Adam Ant

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

- Adam Ant

Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

- Adam Ant

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.

- Alain de Botton

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.

- Ann Richards

Massage therapy has been shown to relieve depression, especially in people who have chronic fatigue syndrome; other studies also suggest benefit for other populations.

- Andrew Weil

The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.

- Andrew Weil

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

- Amy Winehouse

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

- Amy Winehouse

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

- Alfred Nobel

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

- Albert Ellis

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.

- Albert Ellis

I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.

- Alanis Morissette