Marc Maron Quotes

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 can certainly see how people are overcome by depression.

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

Life for me in Los Angeles required medication. I spent nine years being sad and down in the dumps. L.A. doesn't work with my chemistry.

I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

Everything but happiness is neurosis.

I used to get out of bed sometimes and feel depressed and watched a lot of reruns on TV to get over it. I should have allowed myself to be a little more human and not worry about trying to be a superwoman.

I have a hard time being happy, and I think a lot of creative people suffer with that when life gets real happy.

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

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

I'm always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed.

I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

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

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

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.

With sadness specifically, in America you read about people medicating to avoid sadness. They don't want to experience sadness, and yet it's such a vital part of being human.