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.

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.

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.

Terry Austin

We regret and hate to lose an industry of that caliber.

Ayn Rand

Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To love money is to known and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.

Jamie Dimon

I hate the word universal, because I don't know exactly what it means. The question is, does it work for the client? Travelers was a diversified, financial conglomerate that did very well. The businesses had nothing to do with each other.

Alain de Botton

Rather than saying 'I hate mess', it might draw more compassion to say, 'mess terrifies me as a harbinger of catastrophe'.

Aimee Mullins

I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.

Miley Cyrus

My whole thing is, haters are gonna hate, but haters are also going to click on your YouTube video just to watch it, so I don't really care. You helped me break the record. Even if you were watching just to hate on me, and now I hold the record, so I win.

Connie Willis

I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book.

Billie Jean King

I hate being called a homosexual because I don't feel that way. It really upsets me ... Being gay can happen in any walk of life, in any world. If you have one gay experience, does that mean you're gay? If you have one heterosexual experience, does that mean you're straight? Life doesn't work quite so cut and dried.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity.

Bobby Hull

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

Edward Abbey

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

Aesop

We learn from the things we suffer.

Aldous Huxley

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

Chuck Jones

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

Anita Roddick

I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.

John Wesley

Suffer all, and conquer all.

Matthieu Ricard

There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.

Martin Luther

God can be found only in suffering and the cross.