Mary Gaitskill Quotes

I feel kind of depressed today... Do you ever have the feeling that life has passed you by? Worse than that... Sometimes I think life and I are going in opposite directions!

The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.

It's just so hard to feel good, you know?

Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

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

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

I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.

Misery is a communicable disease.

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

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

Depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.

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

If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.

If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.

Is there any indication we shouldn't be depressed - are you living on the same planet that I am? Do you ever think that depression might be the reasonable human response to the crap we're going through as a species, meant to propel us into the next evolutionary step, or at least into taking some different course of action so we might survive? Do you ever think that maybe it's the happy people that are really screwed up in the head?

Unhappiness was my god.

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You can't have one without the other.

I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

I haven't known 6 days of happiness in my life.

I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.

Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.