Emile Durkheim Quotes

But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

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

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

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.

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

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

The man, who in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

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

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.

'Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.

For a long time, I didn't want to live.

When people are acutely depressed, many of them seem to want to hide.

That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls of my house….Took three months before I even looked out the window, see the world still there. I was surprised to see the world didn’t stop.

Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.

the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.

...we ask: Why suicide? We search for reasons, causes, and so on.... We follow the course of the life he has now so suddenly terminated as far back as we can. For days we are preoccupied with the question: Why suicide? We recollect details. And yet we must say that everything in the suicide's life- for now we know that all his life he was a suicide, led a suicide's existence- is part of the cause, the reason, for his suicide.