Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Steinbeck

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

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.

Patricia Briggs

She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.

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.

Matt Lucas

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

Michael Caine

You're never too old to be crazy.

Mason Cooley

The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.

Mason Cooley

I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth.

Mason Cooley

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Theodore Kaczynski

Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.

Melinda Gates

I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?

I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself and the world and my spirituality. I sat at a piano, and the ideas fell into my head. I started playing, and I felt comfortable with my music for the first time.

Ned Beatty

I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2?

Neale Donald Walsch

The universe never says no to your thought about yourself. It only grows it.

Marcel Proust

Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.

Mark Latham

And I can openly and honestly say to you I have never had a day of depression in my life, OK?

Henry Rollins

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

Hector Berlioz

It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense of being alone in an empty universe, the agonies that thrilled through me as if the blood were running ice-cold through my veins, the disgust with living, the impossibility of dying. Shakespeare himself never described this torture; but he counts it, in Hamlet, among the terrible of all the evils of existence. I had stopped composing; my mind seemed to become feebler as my feelings grew more intense. I did nothing. One power was left to me-to suffer.

Henry David Thoreau

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Eric Hoffer

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S.

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.

The Depression did more to me than being a little Lebanese kid did.

Sylvia Plath

I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired.

Sylvia Plath

I’ll never speak to God again.

Sylvia Plath

It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it.

Sylvia Plath

... I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb ...