Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plato

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Philip Larkin

Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth.

Martin Seligman

Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing.

Martin Seligman

Habits of pessimism lead to depression, wither achievement, and undermine physical health. The good news is that pessimism can be unlearned, and that with its removal depression, underachievement, and poor health can be alleviated.

Martin Scorsese

Actually, I was rock climbing on this film at 7 in the morning. It was quite unique! But in any event, the colour of the leaves disturbed me so we had to work on that. On the other hand, I didn't want to drench it in a kind of depressing tone.

James Howard Kunstler

As the places where Americans dwell become evermore depressing and impossible, Disneyworld is where they escape to worship the nation in the abstract, a cartoon capital of a cartoon republic enshrining the falsehoods, half-truths, and delusions that prop up the squishy thing the national character has become--for instance, that we are a nation of families; that we care about our fellow citizens; that history matters; that there is a place called home.

John Piper

Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

John Piper

Every Christian who struggles with depression struggles to keep their hope clear. There is nothing wrong with the object of their hope - Jesus Christ is not defective in any way whatsoever. But the view from the struggling Christian's heart of their objective hope could be obscured by disease and pain, the pressures of life, and by Satanic fiery darts shot against them... All discouragement and depression is related to the obscuring of our hope, and we need to get those clouds out of the way and fight like crazy to see clearly how precious Christ is.

Marilyn French

in a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box.

Petra Haden

I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.

The UK home improvement market remains depressed and price competitive.

N. T. Wright

One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.

Miranda July

i wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself..

Mignon McLaughlin

Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.

He's not some cold-hearted killer who went to the hospital out of a show. He was extremely upset and distraught to the point of severe depression that evening.

Joan Baez

Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

Jimmy Page

I don't want to get too dippy about all this. If you take the view of the scientist and everything is in a state of vibration, then every note is a vibration, which has a certain frequency, and you know that if you put 40 beats into a frequency it's going to be the same note every time. You take that into infrasound and people can be made to be sick, actually killed. Taking it the other way, not to be too depressing, what about euphoria, etc., and what about consciousness being totally... no, I won't go into that one. Time warps.

Lou Reed

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

Madeleine L'Engle

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds;but one must not forget the sun is there all the time.

Louis Sullivan

Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they go. These poor souls were born sick and tired.

John Gay

If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.

John Fowles

And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

Jonathan Davis

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

Jon Stewart

Watching these channels all day is incredibly depressing. I live in a constant state of depression. I think of us as turd miners. I put on my helmet, I go and mine turds, hopefully I don't get turd lung disease.

Jimmy Durante

What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's a hole? You tell me what's a hole! And I'll tell you that a hole is nothin'!

George Lucas

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Emily Mortimer

I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean, it's true.

Ellen Hopkins

So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.

Elizabeth Gilbert

They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these guys very well. ... Then they frisk me. They empty my pockets of any joy I had been carrying there. Depression even confiscates my identity; but he always does that.

John Bunyan

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

Joe Hill

Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it.