Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

Sylvia Plath

Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind it, like the death angel. It is what I was this fall, and what I never want to be again. The pouting disconsolate mouth, the flat, bored, numb, expressionless eyes: symptoms of the foul decay within.

Sylvia Plath

When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.

Michel de Montaigne

When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Michael Schenker

Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.

Michael Keaton

It's great to be young and insane.

Ron Gibori

My two friends in the fraternity who took their lives were probably two of the most popular kids there -- the most liked and the most sociable. So the key message is that if you don't want it to be you or your friend, get educated on the warning signs, and know that depression is treatable, because everyone is vulnerable.

Andrea Yates

because she was having depression from having kids.

Robbie Berg

If it was to develop into a depression tonight or tomorrow, it could develop into a tropical storm.

Archie Panjabi

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

Jane Hamilton

We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds.

Cloris Leachman

I have a terrible image in my mind of a cow going to slaughter. There's not a lot of fight in them. Pigs, they'd squeal and thrash around. They'd fight. It's almost as if cows don't know they have a choice. Not that they don't panic, but they do so in a quiet way.

Bobby Scott

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

Jeff Rawls

When I lost my job as a firefighter, it was because I was fighting for what I thought was right. I didn't know to keep my mouth shut and they shot the messenger.

Billy Chadwick

We knew it'd be tough. The whole match can be summed up by what happened at No. 1 singles. We looked like we were in control, then the next thing you know, we're fighting for our life. Our guys fought hard when they had to.

Jeni Hopkins

We just kept fighting and fighting. It's hard to play a team for the third time ? we knew what they were going to do and they knew what we were going to do.

Douglas Muzzio

There is some truth to 'You've come a long way, baby, ... They're fighting it out on the premier media stage in the world.

Kristy Curry

We've got a lot more to lose than they (Michigan) have to gain. We're fighting for a Big Ten title. We don't want them to take that away from us.