John Zorn Quotes

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

When we focus on our pain, our ache deepens.

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

When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Not enough people in this world are happy.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

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

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

Not being happy really is my fear.

Living, it's awful for me.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

I am weary of happiness, both as a word and as a concept.

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

I can feel myself dying inside.

I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.

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

Depression is like the worst disease you can get. It's devastating.

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.

Dysphoria will always be a painful place.

I'm always sad.