Franz Schubert Quotes

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

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.

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

I'm so involved in melancholy.

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

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

Most of life is sad.

There is a lot of sadness in America.

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

I like dark, hopeless, beautiful tragedies.

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in 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.

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.

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.