Markus Zusak Quotes

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

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

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.

Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

I'm always alone. Sad face emoticon.

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

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

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.

I cry all the time.

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.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.

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.

I was a sad kid.

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

As a boy and even now, I am wont to melancholy. I do, probably once a day, experience a sincere heartbreak.

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.

Loneliness can become a downward spiral.

As bad as it feels, it's familiar to you. And the depression itself is making you unable to reach out. So, I've definitely experienced that in my life.

I understand the power of sorrow, and I understand how far it can take us from ourselves if we let it.

When people are acutely depressed, many of them seem to want to hide.

I had always thought of myself as a sanguine person, quite light and airy. But for a long while, no one could have possibly made me laugh or smile. It was awful.

The disturbing truth we have to recognize is that Bourdain is not alone in his loneliness and depression.