Al Dubin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!
-- Al Dubin

#Depression #Men #Sky
Tiptoe through the tulips with me.
-- Al Dubin

#Tiptoes
Where the underworld can meet the elite, Forty-Second Street.
-- Al Dubin

#Streets #Underworld #Forty
The rumble of a subway train, the rattle of the taxis.
-- Al Dubin

#Subway #Rumble #Taxi

It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!
Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel against the roles we play for fear of putting our sanity in doubt.
It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.
Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.
Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.
In this sleepless night, as the darkness advances, look up at the sky and somehow remember that somewhere in this wide world, there are always people who love you, and people who need you. Because every person can't go on living alone.

Al Dubin famous quotes

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