Donald Miller Quotes

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

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.

My life sucks when I’m only half-aware of it. If I quit drinking and saw what it’s really like, I’d probably jump off a bridge.

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

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

I was always depressed growing up. There wasn't a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

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.

I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.

I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.

Earlier in my life, I had a tendency toward depression.

I'm a dramatic, depressive person.

The truth is that several years ago, I suffered from depression. And I remember during this time, I basically fell into this hole where my life became cold, and it became gray, and I lost sight of everything that was important to me.

As a boy and even now, I am wont to melancholy. I do, probably once a day, experience a sincere heartbreak.

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

I've got every possible thing I could want. And I wondered, 'Why am I so depressed?' I still don't know sometimes.