Ernest Borgnine Quotes

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

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

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

Depression can take you into a black hole, so it is terrible.

It's so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don't have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head.

I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

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.

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.

When you are in depression, almost magically, nothing motivates you.

You wake up one day and don't want to get out of bed?" he asks. Maybe it's not because you're a loser. Maybe it's because you're depressed.

I'm somewhat depressive.

People who have never dealt with depression think it's just being sad or being in a bad mood. That's not what depression is for me; it's falling into a state of grayness and numbness.

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.

I was in depression. I was in my room, dark every night, not wanting to talk to nobody, not going out with my friends, not doing anything, not having a great time. It was a lot of dark nights.

Depression, for me, has been a couple of different things - but the first time I felt it, I felt helpless, hopeless, and things I had never felt before. I lost myself and my will to live.

I truly, truly suffered depression, to the deep core.

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.

Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and all-consuming and really hurts.

I went through an extreme depression.

Depression is not a choice.

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

Anyone can have depression. The illness doesn't care how much you do or don't have.

I was a really, really depressed kid.

At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.