Famous Quotes & Sayings

Florynce Kennedy

Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon.

Fiona Apple

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

Herbert Hoover

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

Franz Kafka

No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

Franz Kafka

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Franz Kafka

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Erica Jong

I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.

Jay Asher

And what if in the future we're at war again, or we still haven't elected a non-white or non-male president, or the Rolling Stones are still dragging their tired old butts on stage? That would depress me way too much.

Jason Schwartzman

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

Herbert Hoover

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

Herbert Hoover

Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.

Herbert Hoover

In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.

Herbert Hoover

Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.

Herbert Hoover

I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence.

Herbert Hoover

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself and the world and my spirituality. I sat at a piano, and the ideas fell into my head. I started playing, and I felt comfortable with my music for the first time.

He's very depressed about all of this. He wants to come back. This is his mother and she needs support, too.

Gary Larson

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

Jack Dee

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

Jack Dee

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

J. D. Salinger

Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it.

J. D. Salinger

It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn't stop! I just could not stop picking!

Jack Nicholson

The way I reacted to 9/11 was I decided I didn't want to do any movies that are sad or critical. I decided I didn't want to make my living depressing people or making them go home sick, so I just decided I wanted to do comedy for a while and study it for a while. It doesn't mean everybody should do that, but that was my reaction.

It's very depressing to not know anything about yourself.

Despite the increase, there is nothing to suggest that the group will be able to increase its growth prospects, which should depress returns.

Lee H. Hamilton

depression that we haven't done better, that we didn't learn more than we did from 9/11.

Depression has many forms. You might get up in the morning and just as soon not face the day. You feel overwhelmed with it all and are continually feeling low.

Depression does not discriminate. It doesn't matter whether you are successful, it doesn't matter how intelligent you are, how rich you are, it can hit you at any time in your life.

Douglas Brinkley

Depressed and in physical pain from hip-replacement surgery, he started talking openly about suicide, polishing his .45-calibre pistol, his weapon of choice.

Del Shannon

I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when I'm depressed and throw it into when I'm feeling good. Weird, I guess.

Marian Edelman

So often we dwell on the things that seem impossible rather than on the things that are possible. So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.