Gustave Flaubert Quotes

There is a lot of sadness in America.

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

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

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

I'm incapable of feeling any joy.

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

I truly, truly suffered depression, to the deep core.

I'm here to be lovesick, broke and drifting, writing heartache songs and singing about pain and misery and depression, with a few good times here and there.

The best anti-depressant pill for me would be one the size of a house so you could drop it on me and put me out of my misery.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak December, And all its pleasures, were but whited pain.

I haven't known 6 days of happiness in my life.

No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

It's nice to see something more pathetic than I feel right now.

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

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

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

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

There is no love without suffering.

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.