Paulo Coelho Quotes

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.

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

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

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

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

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.

Loneliness can become a downward spiral.

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

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

I'm so involved in melancholy.

I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.

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

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

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.

Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul.

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 no friends.

I'm perpetually lonely.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

There's a strong melancholic streak in me.