Billy Dee Williams Quotes

When I wrote those two songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom.

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

It got to a point where I didn't care if I lived or I died.

It got to a point where I didn't care... about living at all.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.

Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.

One day I can be ecstatically up, and the next, I can feel this real blankness, a deadness almost, which is scary.

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.

Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state.

There's a strong melancholic streak in me.

That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.

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.

I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.

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.

When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.

hate blows a bubble of despair into hugeness world system universe and bang -fear buries a tomorrow under woe and up comes yesterday most green and young

I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.