Andrew Shaffer Quotes

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

It feels bad to feel like you're not wanted.

When you want something desperately and you lose it, no matter how hard you try to get yourself motivated, it's always difficult.

My boyfriend dumped me. My best friend won't talk to me. My future is in a garbage can. Everything has turned to crap. Can you please just let me be a sullen teenager. just this once

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

I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.

Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage.

I know when I'm not wanted.

I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times.

People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

I was so broken when I did the first record. I was living in my parents' basement, I didn't know anyone. I was broken-hearted and writing this really dark record. I was at the bottom of a well.

It's not so nice when you don't feel wanted.

Even close people left me - I was hurt by them and felt there was nobody who understands me, which made me fall apart.

Many people feel that if they're lonely, that means that they're not likable or that they're broken in some way.

A lot of friends have given up on me.

I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go.

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

He'd been let down so often His brow was on the floor But then they found A small hole in the ground And let him down some more