Top 1200 Being Depressed Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I'm somebody who looks at things through the lens of being a wife and being a mother and being a United States Marine.

I got a lot of crap for being named SZA but not being affiliated with Wu-Tang, and being a girl.

Gratitude, generosity and humility are inherent characteristics of one who is present. When you awaken, you will realize that everyone and everything has the same right to be here as you do. This includes every human Being, every tree Being, every flower Being, and every other kind of Being.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a woman--a woman in constant pain because her children no longer live under her roof? Is it possible that a notion so pervasive is, in fact, just a myth?

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access tv station. As in driving the mobile van to the field, setting up 3 cameras, teaching depressed grownups and interns how to use them and directing the game from the van and then wanting to kill myself.

Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.

With 'Break The Night,' each verse is saying, 'Nothing's going right today; nothing ever does.' It's about that kind of repetition, it's that kind of mantra you can get in your mind when you're depressed or down, when it's become like a hamster on a wheel - it's very difficult to break.

Being a father is certainly a task. But the best one that I could ever ask for. Being home, being with the family, that's what it's about...

Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.

I seem to be able to go from part to part without being recognised, which I like. When I was little, I resented it with every fibre of my being when Ma was recognised. Another way of looking at celebrity, though, is it's being famous for being brilliant at something.

Women would all be better off if we realized we didn't have to choose between being an intelligent being and a sexual being.

Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.

Like a lot of people, I've often wondered what else I might have been. When I was younger, but even after I was a child, I thought Batman was the whole package. Smart, calculating, pragmatic. Depressed, but in a way women found hot. Tragic at his core and struggling with his demons while trying to save the world.

I went from being a guy who was sparingly being used on television to being the World Heavyweight Champion and the focus of a lot of the storylines on Smackdown.

But I'm more of a recluse when it comes down to being a writer and being a creative person rather than being a celebrity.

God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

There are times when I get really depressed, when I'm going through difficult times and when I want someone to hold my hand. Sometimes I'll think, 'Forget it. I want to be this way.' I often feel that way. But when we started the Love Yourself World Tour, I stopped having those thoughts.

Being 'poor in spirit' (a Christian virtue) means being detached from things - being able to possess goods without being possessed by them. It meansputting people ahead of possessions - and seeing material things only as instruments for serving God and the needs of others.

It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really fun stuff. And then when I'm really happy, I write really depressing stuff.

One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.

I think I felt pretty alienated, being bigger, being mixed race, being of lower socioeconomic standing.

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.

Being stupid and compassionate are not conflicts. Being mean and being funny and having something to say are not a conflict.

Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.

There's a difference between being a fundamentalist and being al-Qaeda and being Muslim. It's absurd to think otherwise.

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

What we put into every moment is all we have. You can drug yourself to death or you can smoke yourself to death or eat yourself to death, or you can do everything right and be healthy and then get hit by a car. Life is so great, such a neat thing, and yet all during it we have to face death, which can make you nuts and depressed.

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.

I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?

If we approach other people understanding our own value, being confident in who we are, being centered and grounded, it's actually easier for us to connect with them because we can listen more deeply and we can express ourselves more authentically without fear of being judged or not being enough.

It's amazing: it's so cool being from Brampton, Ontario, and being able to travel the world and being embraced by so many countries.

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap.

I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.

I've had my moments of feeling miserable in my life, as has everyone, but it's not often that you actually get the opportunity to indulge that feeling. Mostly when people are depressed or miserable, they have to snap out of it because it doesn't work. It doesn't suit day-to-day life.

Ever since Freud, being alone has been considered something of a psychological failure. The point, according to Freudian theory, is to be able to love and connect. But I don't believe that at all. I think that being alone and being coupled and being in a group are all natural states in which people can thrive.

I go out every day. When I get depressed at the office, I go out, and as soon as I'm on the street and see people, I feel better. But I never go out with a preconceived idea. I let the street speak to me.

Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.

99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.

As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common.

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.

The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being.

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

I realized that there's this fine line between being personal and being general and being alienating.

For me, a lot of my fondest memories of being in the music business were being in the studio with The Doobs and being part of that organization and being a part of that music.

Because nonbeing longs for being, on occasion it creates a stronger sense of being than being itself.

I got songs about being broke, being on welfare, being poor, Section 8.

I literally went from being unable to play my rent to being on a plane the next day, being paid peanuts.

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.