Freezing Point Depression

Famous quotes containing the words freezing, point and/or depression:

    “What should we speak of
    When we are old as you? When we shall hear
    The rain and wind beat dark December, how,
    In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse
    The freezing hours away?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there’s no point in waiting for so-called blissful moments, for inspiration; if it comes, so much the better—but you keep working anyway.”
    —Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)

    “Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?”
    —C. John Sommerville (20th century)