Errol Morris Quotes

I've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is.

Errol Morris

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• I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

  

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• I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!

  

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• When you feel depressed, it helps to actively change your environment. Go and do something different. Martin Luther conquered his depression by going outside to work in his garden. Surprisingly enough, one of the best ways to handle depression is to go to work immediately on the task you least enjoy. (The chances are your depression is caused by guilt feelings arising out of neglect of those tasks.)

  

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• Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.

  

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• Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

  

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• It is God’s omnipotence, His consuming holiness, and His right to judge that make Him worthy to be feared.

  

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• Sure, I was depressed for a while. But I was just happy we had a hit. It was cool to know that the band was still together and had gigs to play.

  

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• You don't drive an economy by consuming - the consumer is not the engine, the consumer is the caboose.

  

  Peter Schiff
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• You have a choice everyday... You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy.

  

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• Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world.

  

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• Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.

  

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• For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.

  

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• …she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

  

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

  

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• People are always asking, 'Is everything ok?' Look, I was not depressed, ok? I was just freaking exhausted.

  

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• I think it's really hard to be joyful. I work hard at it. I always feel like it's a choice. You can be joyful or you can be depressed, and there just doesn't seem to be any future in depression.

  

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• I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.

  

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• See, the thing about guys is that I didn't really care to be around them. I mean, guys really made me uncomfortable. I don't know why, not exactly. I just, I don't know, I just didn't belong. I think it embarrassed the hell out of me that I was a guy. And it really depressed me that there was the distinct possibility that I was going to grow up and be like one of those assholes.

  

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• Please don't be depressed: nothing is sad about you except your sadness...

  

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• Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.

  

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• I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.

  

  William Faulkner
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• Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

  

  Lord Byron
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• I've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Depressed
  • Consuming