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.

Jesse Jackson

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

Jennifer Lynch

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

Jeffrey Sachs

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

Jean Ingelow

I don't want to die. But I want to be dead.

Jackie Kennedy

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

Herbert Hoover

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

Steve Finley

These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

Peter Singer

Those who purchase meat, fur, and leather have no right to be shielded from the sights and sounds of the slaughterhouses from which these products were produced.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.

Seth Shostak

We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after all. An uneasy feeling is perfectly natural if you suspect that someone has you in their ocular sights, whether it's a ghost or just some guy at the bus stop.

Thomas a Kempis

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Natalie Merchant

I’ve always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I’ve never lost sight of that.

Joshua Chamberlain

We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven.

Rachel Cusk

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It is better to lose than never to have had.