Famous Quotes & Sayings

Black Elk

It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.

Bette Midler

For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating - and then only by waiters.

Bob Geldof

But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.

Bob Geldof

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

It can lead to depression and even suicide.

There are risks to antidepressant treatment, but the risks of untreated depression are worse.

Bill Bryson

Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.

Alain de Botton

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.

Brendan Sexton III

I love to laugh and dance. That's kind of my nature, though I end up always playing these angry, depressing characters.

Falling oil prices could put further pressure on gas prices that are already depressed due to unfavorable weather.

Tom Hodgkinson

The phrase 'work/life balance' encapsulates a depressing outlook.

Clinton Portis

We've got to be focused. We can't let a QB switch depress us. We can't let it get us down. Whoever's back there, we've got to roll with it.

Clinton Portis

We've got to be focused. We can't let a QB switch depress us, ... We can't let it get us down. Whoever's back there, we've got to roll with it.

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.

You can tell a difference in them from the very first month. Once they have been given permission to be a woman, the depression lifts.

Electricity shares had been very depressed in past days.

James O'Shaughnessy

Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.

There was a combination of things that really depressed it. One was Hewlett-Packard's shortfall and we had a sympathetic sell-off using the political environment as a backdrop. Ironically, IBM remained the stalwart and it probably gave the notion of stability to the tech sector and we saw some people looking for bargains.

At some point, I went to the studio and nothing happened. It can be really depressing to sit there and wait for the inspiration that doesn't come. I had to start recording rough song ideas before going to the studio. I did that at home whenever I had a good idea.

Dick Poplar plays a special part in my life ... Some folks say he was just a cook. Well, that is one of the most depressing things people say about the war. Because for every soldier that's in the field, there are 10 soldiers supporting them.

And we didn't even get the Mickey Mouse show gig, which made for a very depressing train ride back home to Boston.

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.

Evan Goldberg

As a director, you can't stop a guy if he thinks something's hysterical, because if you do, then he'll get depressed because he thinks he didn't come up with a good joke. So if a guy's going on some run and it's killing him, and he thinks it's hilarious, you gotta do enough so that he thinks you can use it in the movie.

Terry Bradshaw

When you're clinically depressed the serotonin in your brain is out of balance and probably always will be out of balance. So I take medication to get that proper balance back. I'll probably have to be on it the rest of my life.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is not yet listening.

Dyan Cannon

I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems.

Edward Hirsch

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

David Karp

Rituals, even unhappy ones, provide a measure of comfort. Like a superstitious ballplayer who will only use certain bats, my depression rituals have become a fixed, normal part of my life. ... I need rituals to prevent unnecessarily rocking my already shaky emotional boat.

Clement Freud

The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into the upper lip of a salmon, drag him endlessly around the water until he loses his strength, pull him to the bank, hit him on the head with a stone, and you may well become fisherman of the year. Shoot.the salmon and you'll never be asked again.

Claude Monet

To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it...