Viggo Mortensen Quotes

I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now.

Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.

When we have congressmen and top state politicians all working together with powerful interests, what have we got to fight against them? Not much, except to ask for justice.

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power.

Depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.

If you want to be depressed every day, there's plenty of material. The world is crazy.

Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state.

Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

Despair often breeds disease.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.