Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

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.

Herbert Hoover

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

Herbert Hoover

Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.

Herbert Hoover

In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.

Herbert Hoover

Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.

Herbert Hoover

I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence.

Herbert Hoover

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.

Eugene Ionesco

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Ernest Hemingway

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

Hugh Prather

Moods should be heard but never danced to.

Gary Larson

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

Franz Kafka

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Franz Kafka

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Frances Perkins

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

Florynce Kennedy

Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon.

Fiona Apple

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

Herbert Hoover

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

That may help with depression or symptoms of depression.

Euripides

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Ernest Borgnine

I'm what you call a Depression sailor.

Murray Gell-Mann

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

Jay Leno

A new study found that people who are depressed have a greater risk of stroke. Well that should cheer them up.

Buzz Aldrin

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.

James Hillman

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

James Hillman

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

Kristin Scott Thomas

You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.

Milton Friedman

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.