John Webster Quotes

I felt like things could never get any worse.

I am as miserable as anyone - sometimes.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

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

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.

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

When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

I'm so involved in melancholy.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

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.

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

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.