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If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.

— Marjane Satrapi

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

— Inga Muscio

Depression is a physical illness.

— Terry Bradshaw

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

— Bob Geldof

Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.

— Peter Steele

I would be a very sad person if I didn't have dance in my life. However I can, whatever I do, I just feel a lot of joy. Even if I am sad, if you take me to a rehearsal hall, I will automatically become happy.

— Mouni Roy

Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

— Fannie Flagg

I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

— Inga Muscio

Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion.

— Tony Campolo

I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.

— Marjane Satrapi

✗Opposing Perspectives

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

— Susan Sontag