Leo Tolstoy Quotes

My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.

Most of us have days or weeks or months so awful, we wish we'd never been born.

Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one else can interfere with it.

It got to a point where I didn't care if I lived or I died.

If a documentary crew were to follow me around, they'd probably think they were making a film about the saddest person in the world.

At the beginning of 'A Christmas Carol,' Scrooge embodies one of the central tenets of depression: that one has always been this way - and always will be.

I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

Me in a one-man tent crouching over carrier bag. It's not just the lowest point of the trip. It's the lowest point ever. In 38 years.

There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.

You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

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

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.

I had sadness for breakfast.

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

Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, 'Ugh'.

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.

It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.

It looked like everything worth living for was gone. The entire country was depressed -- there was no hope.

I was so broken when I did the first record. I was living in my parents' basement, I didn't know anyone. I was broken-hearted and writing this really dark record. I was at the bottom of a well.