Julia Child Quotes

I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens.

I didn't get depressed, I don't get depressed.

Somebody asked me at one stage, 'Are you depressed?' And I said, 'Are you kidding me? I'm not depressed.' But you know what? I was. I was, but I just didn't realize it, because all these things happen, and you just don't know how to deal with emotions.

There are a lot of challenges we are facing, like how you are supposed to react to emotional stress.

I don't get depressed.

We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.

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.

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

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

I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.

When you're in a depressed state, having something really bad happen gives you kind of a life again.

In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.

I don't agree with this romantic fantasy that people who suffer from depression are more likely to be artists. I find that I am more creative when I am happy actually.

It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.

I believe that it may be normal, healthy, and even productive to experience mild to moderate depression from time to time as part of the variable emotional spectrum, either as an appropriate response to situations or as a way of turning inward and mentally chewing over problems to find solutions.

Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.

You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!

Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times.

There's a fine line between helping others and being a people pleaser, and mistaking one for the other can be hugely detrimental. When we put others' needs before our own, we deplete our energy, which can lead to depression, physical illness, and overwhelm.

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.

I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!

Books about suicide make lousy gifts.

I was battling depression, went through a really hard time in my marriage, and I used to cry myself to sleep. I went through years and years of pain and suffering, and finally got help. I feel so much better now, feel like a new person, so now I can be happy about it.

The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found.