Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeanette Winterson

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Jim Carrey

I don't hate you for loving you. I just hate my heart for choosing someone like you.

Jim Carrey

I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever.

Jim Carrey

There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level of despair you live in. Where you're not getting any answers, but you're living OK. And you can smile at the office. You know? But it's a low level of despair. I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever. I had to get off at a certain point because I realized that, you know, everything's just OK.

Jerry Stiller

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

Christine Baranski

In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place

Felix Mendelssohn

I dislike nothing more than finding fault with a man's nature or talent; it only depresses and worries and does no good; one cannot add a cubit to one's stature, all striving and struggling are useless there, so one has to be silent about it, and let the responsibility rest with God.

Ezra Taft Benson

Let your minds be filled with the goal of being like the Lord, and you will crowd out depressing thoughts as you anxiously seek to know Him and do His will.

Francis Bacon

A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

Jennifer Coolidge

I always find the most depressing stuff most interesting.

Grimes

I think my music's kind of cold, but I don't know if it's related to the weather. It might be because it's always grey [in Montreal], it's very depressing.

Gerald Vann

Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.

Harpo Marx

I saw the most frightening, most depressing sight I had ever seen - a row of stores with Stars of David and the word 'Jude' painted on them, and inside, behind half-empty counters, people in a daze, cringing like they didn't know what hit them and didn't know where the next blow would come from. Hitler had been in power only six months, and his boycott was already in full effect. I hadn't been so wholly conscious of being a Jew since my bar mitzvah, and it was the first time since I'd had the measles that I was too sick to eat.

Gregory David Roberts

There is nothing so depressing as good advice, and I will be pleased if you do not inflict it upon me. Frankly, I am shocked at you. You must know this, surely? Some years ago I suffered such an offensively gratuitous piece of good advice that I was depressed for six months afterward. It was a very close call - I almost never recovered.

Ian Bogost

We have to always spread sugar on top of it in order that we can tolerate swallowing the things we're supposed to do, which is an incredibly depressing way of thinking about living your life. Not just that your work or your home life would be so miserable that you have to slather sugar on it, but then the sugar is all you're tasting. If that's the only way that I'm finding meaning, then we have this sort of mental diabetes that we're descending into.

Hugh Prather

Moods should be heard but never danced to.

Hannah Arendt

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

Hannah Arendt

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.

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.

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.

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.

Ted Knight

Sometimes when I got a little lonely or depressed I would go down to the supermarket in hopes of being recognized. I would squeeze a few melons and look around surreptitiously. Raise my voice if I had to.

We've got all markets going up. Prices were pretty depressed in Brazil.

We want to fly over the top of this depression before it deepens and sucks us in.

The scans showed there is no significant depression and the pleasing news is Benji does not have to undergo surgery.

What happened last year was depressing. It's depressing losing to Florida every year.

We were pretty depressed after the performance we had at the Reno Tournament of Champions.

We moved in the winter, so it was really bad. It was really depressing for me. It was really cold, and every day it was snowing. Joe went to school, and I had to stay in the house all the time, watching the snow.

It's pretty depressing when your whole life comes down to three boxes,