Marc Maron Quotes

If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

I didn't get depressed, I don't get depressed.

I don't get depressed.

Is there any indication we shouldn't be depressed - are you living on the same planet that I am? Do you ever think that depression might be the reasonable human response to the crap we're going through as a species, meant to propel us into the next evolutionary step, or at least into taking some different course of action so we might survive? Do you ever think that maybe it's the happy people that are really screwed up in the head?

When you're in a depressed state, having something really bad happen gives you kind of a life again.

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

Melancholy is no bad thing.

I have no problem with people feeling a bit down - crikey, you only have to walk down the road to find enough reasons to fall into a depressive coma - but I do have a problem with whining about it.

I don't have time to be depressed.

I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

I seem to be able to get depressed quite easily without any reason.

Shutting out the depression strengthens it. While you hide from it, it grows.

Somebody asked me at one stage, 'Are you depressed?' And I said, 'Are you kidding me? I'm not depressed.' But you know what? I was. I was, but I just didn't realize it, because all these things happen, and you just don't know how to deal with emotions.

I get frustrated but never depressed.

My life has had a lot of fun moments, but I tend to feel sadness more often.

If you don't have very strong emotions or very intense thoughts about something, you cannot get depressed.

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

All the commercials on TV today are for antidepressants, for Prozac or Paxil. And they get you right away. "Are you sad? Do you get stressed, do you have anxiety?" "Yes, I have all those things! I'm alive!"

Sometimes, when I talk to someone who has just been diagnosed with cancer or some other illness, I'll remind them: "If you were honest with yourself, you were depressed before this happened. And if this were over you would be happy for a couple of weeks, a couple of months, and then something else would come along."

You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you.

I've had my moments of feeling miserable in my life, as has everyone, but it's not often that you actually get the opportunity to indulge that feeling. Mostly when people are depressed or miserable, they have to snap out of it because it doesn't work. It doesn't suit day-to-day life.

Four years ago on this very day I tried to take my own life. And I said, "Zach, do it in front of your co-workers and end the misery." I don't know how many of you ever tried to jump off of a Pizza Hut, but you'll just get a sprained ankle out of the deal. Then you'll have to go back inside, and serve crazy bread.