Friedrich Hayek Quotes

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.

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

I don't want to get all self-help on everyone. But I definitely think there was a period in my life where I thought I would feel the same way, forever. And every day felt like 'Groundhog Day,' where I was super, super depressed.

I don't want to get depressed, I don't want to get down in the dumps, and I don't want to get teased with the idea that everything's rigged and everything's fake.

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

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use and leads to nothing.

I have no problem with people feeling a bit down - crikey, you only have to walk down the road to find enough reasons to fall into a depressive coma - but I do have a problem with whining about it.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.

I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems.

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

Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.

If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.

I think I am naturally depressive.

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 in a self-induced depression. Welcome to me Real World.

I'm depressed! I'm completely depressed! I am firmly convinced that there is no one in this world who really likes me!" "So what else is new?

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

I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties.

Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.