Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Moody

I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.

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.

Blaise Pascal

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Alain de Botton

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.

Dale Neaman

You can tell a difference in them from the very first month. Once they have been given permission to be a woman, the depression lifts.

Alexander Lowen

Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel against the roles we play for fear of putting our sanity in doubt.

Andrew Solomon

It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.

Susan Sontag

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Steve Buyer

From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Kristen Breitweiser

I spent the last 4 1/2 years trying to show we need to increase security and decrease the dependency on foreign oil and we are going to give our port security to the country who funded 9/11.

Martin Sheen

I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will.

Thomas Jefferson

I see students all over and around the building. It looks nothing like a school. It looks like a country club.

John Hamilton

I see no reason why he can't lead the country during this period of transition,

Sebastian Bach

I used to live in Canada. It's a beautiful country with a lot of different kind of topographic regions.

Andres Perez

It would kill me. There has to be a system put in place where they can come to this country and work instead of having to sacrifice their lives, like walking through the desert like my workers have.

Jim Manley

It would be impossible to keep the kind of schedule that he does on these trips throughout the country without being able to use these jets every once in a while.

Joe Nedney

It would be great to set an NFL record in another country,

Jim Parsons

I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.

Brett Lee

If you can’t get the wicket of Rohit Sharma, you are struggling in life

Aravind Adiga

Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.

Jane Campion

The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative.

Carson McCullers

The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

Al Gore

All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and policies and treaties. So, yes, we are in a phase of this (climate protection) struggle where civic and political action is at the top of the list.

Jane Asher

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

bell hooks

We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.