Giles Andreae Quotes

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

Nothing good comes out of depression.

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

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.

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

I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.

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

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

Depression, for me, has been a couple of different things - but the first time I felt it, I felt helpless, hopeless, and things I had never felt before. I lost myself and my will to live.

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

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

I'm broken from the inside. The depression that has slowly eaten away at me has finally consumed me, and I couldn't beat it.

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

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

I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

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

By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.

When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

Living, it's awful for me.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

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 still remember the days, not wanting to see anybody, not wanting to talk to anybody, really not wanting to live. I was on an express elevator to the bottom floor, wherever that might be.

Emptiness will always cripple me.

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.

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.