Michelle Williams Quotes

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

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

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

It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.

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

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

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

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.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

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

Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Depression is like pushing a car up a hill. It takes all my energy to push the car up the hill. I don't have any energy left to write.

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.

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

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

I have a lot of bad days.

The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

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.