#depress

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression. ↗

— Jack Dee

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With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed. ↗

— Wayne Coyne

#because #beyond #communicating #depressed #live

Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States. ↗

— Martin Denny

#back #columbia #contract #course #depression

I'm what you call a Depression sailor. ↗

— Ernest Borgnine

#depression #i #sailor #you

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country. ↗

— John Burns

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Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#depressing #enjoying #got #important #kinds

Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#changed #completely #contemporary #contemporary music #depression

I find nothing more depressing than optimism. ↗

— Paul Fussell

#find #i #more #nothing #optimism

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#depression #friends #good #good friends #i

After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#america #around #bush #confusion #depression