Mason Cooley Quotes

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

I suffer anxiety and a lot of insecurities, depression and stuff.

In the day I can smile though I wanna die / Hold on, hold on / I can keep it together for a little while / and be strong, so strong / But when the sun goes down and I'm all alone / I haven't the strength to fight / That's when my tears give in to the night

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again.

So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.

I don't really know what depression is, I don't think I've felt it. I probably have. Things aren't the same when you're losing. You're not happy. That can happen. But I try to keep them separate as much as possible.

I was in a very dark place for a long time. It's just so hard to have normalcy.

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

Self-loathing doesn't keep me from being happy. But that doesn't mean I don't struggle.

I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

Earlier in my life, I had a tendency toward depression.

I'm a dramatic, depressive person.