David Frankel Quotes

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.

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

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

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

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes.

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

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.

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

While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers.

Despair - or as I like to call it, des-pair - means feeling unpaired in a world in which it feels like everyone else is paired with a good job, a happy marriage, loving family, caring, and hope - and you're not.

Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.

Loneliness can become a downward spiral.

Nobody can understand me.

When things aren't going well it can feel like the world is against you and there's nowhere to turn.

Life has no friend.

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

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 a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

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.

When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.