Damon Lindelof Quotes

I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.

So I just sat in bed for six months - I literally didn't leave the house - and it was the first time that I'd actually experienced being depressed. I'd be sad on and off but I'd never experienced actual depression. Like, crying for no reason. It was really horrible.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

Nothing good comes out of depression.

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

You wake up one day and don't want to get out of bed?" he asks. Maybe it's not because you're a loser. Maybe it's because you're depressed.

I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.

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.

I think one of the scariest things about depression is that it exists along with the happiness and the joy, and it kind of plays with it and sucks the color from it.

I was depressed for a year after 'The Pianist,' and I don't suffer from that, generally. It wasn't just a depression; it was a mourning.

I thought it would be a fun change of pace to do a show about a really sad, depressed character.

I was in depression. I was in my room, dark every night, not wanting to talk to nobody, not going out with my friends, not doing anything, not having a great time. It was a lot of dark nights.

Depression can take you into a black hole, so it is terrible.

I truly, truly suffered depression, to the deep core.

For a long time, I didn't want to live.

The disturbing truth we have to recognize is that Bourdain is not alone in his loneliness and depression.

I was a really, really depressed kid.

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

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

At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.