Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Kerr

In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter to be known as Kerr's law, which states in essence: All the houses you can afford to buy are depressing.

Jean Ingelow

I don't want to die. But I want to be dead.

Jackie Kennedy

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

Christine Baranski

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

Hunter S. Thompson

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.

Elton John

I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

Ellen Burstyn

Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?'

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.

Ian Mcewan

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

Hugh Laurie

It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.

Horace

The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath. [Lat., Quin corpus onustum Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.]

Homer

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Og Mandino

If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.

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.

Gillian Flynn

I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival

Harold Prince

The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.

Harold Rosenberg

Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises must consent to limit his imagination to a depressing casuistry regarding the formal requirements of modernism.

James Frey

I think God is something that people use to avoid reality. I think faith allows people to reject what is right in front of our eyes, which is that thing, this life, this existence, this consciousness, or whatever word you want to use for it, is all we have, and all we'll ever have. I think people have faith because they want and need to believe in something, whatever that something is, because life can be hard and depressing and brutal if you don't.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I have a plan-to go mad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

Frank Zappa

I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.

Frank Zappa

Don't go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.

Jeanette Winterson

The crazy thing is that when we go to somebody's house, what's better than looking at their bookshelves? Nobody's ever going to say, "Can I see the index to your Kindle?" It's so depressing and so unsexy. Sure, it's there, but nobody is going to get excited by that.

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.

Jeff Bridges

Sometimes you'll have a movie that you're very proud of and you think it transcended all of your expectations but it doesn't come out at the right time. I have done movies that have never been released. That can be depressing.