Margo Jefferson Quotes

I'm so involved in melancholy.

I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

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.

I'm always sad.

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.

Trust me, you know when you've got depression.

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

I had sadness for breakfast.

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

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.

When you are debilitated, and you're very depressed, and you believe there's no hope, you cannot get a better potpourri of down.

There's a strong melancholic streak in me.

There's definitely sadness happening in this band. I get melancholy every day about things.

Sadness can feel so unproductive.

The name of the Slough was Despond.

This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

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.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

I think I am pretty much melancholic.