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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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People find life entirely too time-consuming.
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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.
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Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.
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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.
