Anselm Kiefer Quotes

A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.

Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

People look for patterns in everything. It's what keeps us sane, I suppose. I struggle to see any patterns in my life. I think I can understand depression a bit because of my sister. My own feelings of... I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.

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

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

If you don't have very strong emotions or very intense thoughts about something, you cannot get depressed.

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you.

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

Unhappiness doesn't grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won't fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man's doing.

And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living.

The only thing that feeling bad accomplishes is to plummet you into anxiety, despair, depression, and stress. In such situations, ask yourself in that moment what THOUGHT you can have that will make you feel GOOD!

Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.

Depression is something that seems really obscure when you see it in a theater, but when you talk to people who come to see it and hear their reactions, you realize that it is such a prevalent part of life and our society today that it really needed to be told, and still needs to be told.

Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.

The thing about those conditions [anxiety and depression] that sucks the worst is that you don't address the root cause, so you never see it coming. What's worse is when you don't even KNOW what the root cause is, you can never fix the problem. So that's what's really scary.

Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a protest march on the White House green it will not be for abortion rights or gay liberation, but because we're all so bummed out.

I've had a lot of struggles with depression. It's very easy for me to go to a bleak place, or for me to doubt humanity, myself, the world, my choices.

Depression means that you have no point of view.

Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.