Elizabeth McCracken Quotes

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.

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.

It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.

A song is about heartbreak - but what are the constituent feelings? What are the aspects? There is anger, there is guilt, there are all these different things. I guess putting those voices into dialogue together just felt real.

Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

Despair has its own calms.

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

I had sadness for breakfast.

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

I think one of the scariest things about depression is that it exists along with the happiness and the joy, and it kind of plays with it and sucks the color from it.

I'm very much drawn to melancholy and those kinds of emotions.

Sadness can feel so unproductive.

He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler.

We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.

...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

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