Jason Schwartzman Quotes

If a documentary crew were to follow me around, they'd probably think they were making a film about the saddest person in the world.

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

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

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.

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

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

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

Nothing good comes out of depression.

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.

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 felt like things could never get any worse.

Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful. There is nothing I can think of that is quite as isolating as this.

There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.

Pathetic

I shall never come to the Punjab again; it is such a hopeless place.

As bad as it feels, it's familiar to you. And the depression itself is making you unable to reach out. So, I've definitely experienced that in my life.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

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

I'm so involved in melancholy.

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.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

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'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

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

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.