Marc Maron Quotes

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

You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you.

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

Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.

In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.

I feel kind of depressed today... Do you ever have the feeling that life has passed you by? Worse than that... Sometimes I think life and I are going in opposite directions!

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

Every movie I do, I always use things that have happened in my life. Funny moments, anything. If it just sticks out I'll write it down and use that, too, because it has to come out of you. But no one can work when they're depressed. I don't think I'd physically be able to do it if I were depressed.

I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird.

I kind of like being depressed.

I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed.

I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

There's a lot of insecure, sad people in any profession.

I'm not going to lie: you do get down sometimes, but I wouldn't say I was ever depressed; that's too hard a word. But you do become bored, because all you've done in your life is fight and box.

When I'm depressed is when I'm not interested in writing anything, whereas some people, I think, are spurred to creativity through their personal experiences and through depression. And for me, it's a very low place, and it's not fruitful.

I think, life is miserable.

All the commercials on TV today are for antidepressants, for Prozac or Paxil. And they get you right away. "Are you sad? Do you get stressed, do you have anxiety?" "Yes, I have all those things! I'm alive!"

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?

Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.

Why were you feeling low? Why does anyone? It creeps up on you from time to time.