Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.

Charles Spurgeon

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.

Edgar Allan Poe

I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure but the solitary communion with the 'mountains & the woods'-the 'altars' of Byron. I have thus rambled and dreamed away whole months, and awake, at last, to a sort of mania for composition. Then I scribble all day, and read all night, so long as the disease endures.

Edgar Allan Poe

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

Elizabeth Bowen

Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our banter from utter banality.

Abraham Lincoln

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

Abraham Lincoln

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.

Andrea Yates

because she was having depression from having kids.

Dennis Stubblefield

She had a lot of depression in her life, but she didn't want to share it with anyone.

Gil Reyes

We're not crazy about the cortisone, but it allows us to work.

Lindsay Davenport

Lots of crazy things can happen on this surface but it was pretty easy,

Dennis Rodman

Many things have happened in the last 10 years. ... I should have been dead, ... The crazy antics, the wild parties. If I did drugs the way I partied with drinking, I would be dead.

Pamela Boggs

Menopause is a perfectly natural process. As family members and friends recognize that this is a normal process and learn about the normal, natural symptoms, they will then treat the woman like she's normal and natural rather than a crazy woman.

Lin Dutton

My kids used to tease me and say the neighbor kids probably called me 'the crazy gourd lady' because of the gourds taking over the place. It really was a funny sight.

Jibril Rajoub

Netanyahu must stop his crazy policies in East Jerusalem, ... The reaction, the riots, the demonstrations are the result of these policies.

Peter Boockvar

Noone questions why we were so crazy the first week of January, we're giving back some of the fluff rally.

Hassan Shehata

Morale is very high after all the victories and with the crazy support we'll have, we're going to do everything we can to win.

Donovan Morgan

My grandmother was crying because she was saying out of her whole 71 years, she's never seen anything like that. There are a whole lot of crazy things going on down there. I just want them out of there.

Ayn Rand

She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.

Rachael Leigh Cook

I feel just like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. You know, except for the whole hooker thing.

Jennifer Lopez

Love scenes are always weird, though. They're always uncomfortable. It's all the people around who make it uncomfortable. It's not usually the actor you're working with, because they usually feel just as weird as you do!

Jaimie Alexander

Never be ashamed of what or how you feel... just be honest.

Elvis Costello

Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being.

Jodi Picoult

...because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there were all sorts of filler that took up space, but had no substance. That made you feel just as empty.

Theodore Roosevelt

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.

Kimi Raikkonen

I just love the American spirit of racing. It feels just great to get involved with that.

Keke Palmer

If you focus more on the inside, you'll feel just as great about the outside. I feel attractive when I'm doing good and helping people.