Terry Gilliam Quotes

Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but they're just different names for loneliness. That's what lets the darkness in. That's what you have to fight.

The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.

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

They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.

Melancholy suicide. - This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract.

Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.

I don't know as I am fit for anything and I have thought that I could wish to die young and let the remembrance of me and my faults perish in the grave rather than live, as I fear I do, a trouble to everyone.... Sometimes I could not sleep and have groaned and cried till midnight.

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.

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

I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.

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

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

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

We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life.

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

If you want to be depressed every day, there's plenty of material. The world is crazy.

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.

Everybody has unhappiness.

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

I was always very depressed, even when I was a youngster.

'Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.

I can't speak for everybody. But I will say that for me, when I've been depressed - and I get depressed. I have irrational bouts of anxiety. I have random FedEx deliveries of despondency. Just like, 'I didn't order this. Oh, well, keep the PJs on, cancel everything you're doing today. It's time to take a sad shower.'

I was depressed for a long time.

Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.