Raphael Bob-Waksberg Quotes

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

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

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

The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.

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

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

There is a lot of sadness in America.

Everybody has unhappiness.

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

I'm always sad.

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

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 had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

Nothing good comes out of depression.

Living, it's awful for me.

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

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

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

Six is the hardest number for me to experience, the smallest. It's the absence of something - it's cold, dark, almost like a black hole. If someone tells me they are depressed, I might imagine myself in the hole of a six to help me empathise.

A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.

I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl.

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 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.