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.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • People
  • Health
  • Depressed

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

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Working
  • Depressed
  • Used to

• 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.)

  

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

  

  Flannery O'Connor
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• Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

  

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

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Judge
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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.

  

  Donnie Iris
  • Together
  • Happy
  • Band

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

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Economy
  • Consumers
  • Consuming

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

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Happy
  • Morning
  • Choose

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

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Consuming
  • Meteors
  • LIght The World

• 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.

  

  William Congreve
  • Mind
  • Ambition
  • Consuming

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

  

  William Franklin Beedle Jr.
  • Moments
  • Acting
  • Consuming

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

  

  Jane Austen
  • Depressed

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

  

  Ben Moody Evanescence
  • Professional
  • Failed
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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.

  

  Barbara Hamby
  • Choice
  • Depressed
  • Joyful

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

  

  Alice Dunbar Nelson
  • Depressed
  • Discouraged
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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.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Hell
  • Possibility
  • Embarrassed

• This was puzzling, as the standard textbook of psychiatry at the time stated that incest was extremely rare in the United States, occurring about once in every million women.8 Given that there were then only about one hundred million women living in the United States, I wondered how forty seven, almost half of them, had found their way to my office in the basement of the hospital. Furthermore, the textbook said, “There is little agreement about the role of father-daughter incest as a source of serious subsequent psychopathology.” My patients with incest histories were hardly free of “subsequent psychopathology”—they were profoundly depressed, confused, and often engaged in bizarrely self-harmful behaviors, such as cutting themselves with razor blades. The textbook went on to practically endorse incest, explaining that “such incestuous activity diminishes the subject’s chance of psychosis and allows for a better adjustment to the external world.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Women
  • Wondered
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• I love eggs fried over medium.

  

  Slick Rick
  • Eggs
  • Mediums

• It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Smart

• Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only visualized more clearly than any other figures in imaginative literature... He was in the rank in which we set Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe.

  

  Edwin Muir
  • Literature
  • Characters
  • Conscious

• In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Atom
  • Brutality
  • Dissociation

• Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Real

• 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