Robbie Robertson Quotes

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

The name of the Slough was Despond.

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.

Despair has its own calms.

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life.

I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl.

If you want to be depressed every day, there's plenty of material. The world is crazy.

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.

I'm always sad.

They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole.

still, what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? that if he got blue, i got black? that i hated those pills so much, because i knew how much i relied on them to live?

It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion

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

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

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

I'm so involved in melancholy.

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

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.

I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.

I have a lot of bad days.

The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.

Six is the hardest number for me to experience, the smallest. It's the absence of something - it's cold, dark, almost like a black hole. If someone tells me they are depressed, I might imagine myself in the hole of a six to help me empathise.