Quotes of: Being-depressed Keyword

'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the...

Gary Sinise

Rather than assuming weakness or defectiveness, we should acknowledge that getting through depression requires considerable strength. Rather than assuming permanent debility, we should recognize that some depressions are followed by thriving.

The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

Fight Club

Larry: She doesn't want to be happy. Dan: Everybody wants to be happy. Larry: Depressives don't. They want to be unhappy to confirm they're depressed. If they were happy they couldn't be depressed anymore. They'd have to go out into the world and liv...

Patrick Marber

Depression is not a character flaw. It is a biochemical disease. Depression does not discriminate. It affects individuals of all genders, races, religions, sexual orientations, and income levels. Depression doesn't accept credit cards or care about y...

Ann Brasco

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.

Stephen Mangan

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.

Dougray Scott

If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.

C. K. Williams

The opposite of depression isn't feeling happy but being fully alive, however painful

Gwyneth Lewis

If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem.

Julius Erving

As to whether the depression will come back, it is every depressive's fear.

Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.

Steve Earle

This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression. The character has traits of myself. I really lost friends while writing on that story, I became ugly and unhappy and ju...

David Foster Wallace

sufferers of depression, who can elect to keep their feelings private, experience chronic, unremitting emotional alienation. Each moment spent “passing” as normal deepens the sense of disconnection generated by depression in the first instance. I...

David Karp

Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. It is ...

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.

Ralph Abernathy

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Chuck Palahniuk

However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.

Dorothy Rowe

Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.

J.K. Rowling

People are getting ready for music that makes them feel happy again rather than being depressed at the way the world is going right now.

Estelle