Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Vegas

The people on the QVC shopping channel convince me that life is worth living. They see the good in everything. People who go to counselling should actually go to a room with a QVC seller for half an hour and let them find the qualities within them. For example, they'd look at me and say, 'To anybody else this looks like a stomach but, actually, his feet never get wet in the rain.

Nicolas Cage

I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.

Nora Ephron

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Matt Lucas

Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

Norman Cousins

It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.

Mitch Albom

I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.

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.

Geoffrey Boycott

Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.

Frank Bruno

It's like a kettle. If it's a kettle, you turn the kettle off, you know what I mean? I wish I could put a hole in my head and let the steam come out. The steam was getting so high and the pressure was just getting a little bit much for me.

John Bunyan

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

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.

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.

Lisa Alther

Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a frenzy of paralysis. You were unable to function, but were actively despising yourself for it.

Linda Grant

I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went o r you didn't, but the fact of it and the decisions it forced us to make marked us for the rest of our lives, just as the depression and World War II had marked my parents.

Joyce Meyer

If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

Joseph Heller

The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?

John Maynard Keynes

We will not have any more crashes in our time.

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.

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.

Julie Burchill

Depression is the most extreme form of vanity.

Joyce Meyer

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

Joyce Meyer

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

Joyce Meyer

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Joyce Meyer

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

Kate Millett

Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are quiet and you suffer.