Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

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

Everybody's having fun, except me I'm the lonely one I live in shame.

I just lay in my room for days ... weeks.

Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?

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

I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.

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

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.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

Loneliness can become a downward spiral.

For a long time, I didn't want to live.

Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness.

I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.

I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked.

I'm always alone. Sad face emoticon.

But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it.

I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

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 didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

It's a terrible feeling being lonely.

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

I cry all the time.

I had no friends. I worried a lot.