Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

George Santayana

Depression is rage spread thin.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I have a plan-to go mad.

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.

Irving Fisher

For the immediate future, at least, the outlook (stocks) is bright.

Irving Fisher

There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash.

Irving Fisher

The end of the decline of the Stock Market will probably not be long, only a few more days at most.

Irving Fisher

Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

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.

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.

Glenn Gould

I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.

Jack Dee

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

It is a recession when your neighbor has lost his job. It is a depression when you have lost yours

Carrie Fisher

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

Anthony Storr

Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.

Pete Fountain

I think maybe it was just depression about all the stuff that happened. All the things we lost. All the disruption. And then you look around and see all the stuff still messed up. It just sort of grinds you down.

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.