Pastoral Resources

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it.

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.

It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.

I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.