Hubert Selby Jr. Quotes

Nothing good comes out of depression.

I have no mouth, and I must scream.

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 guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.

People are hurting, and they feel very disengaged and disenfranchised.

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

When hope is gone, time is punishment.

Want is misery.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

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

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Despair often breeds disease.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

I almost threw up the first time I set foot inside the University of California, San Francisco's Comprehensive Care Center and joined the stream of thin, slow-moving, low-voiced, gray-skinned people. I didn't want to be one of the pitied, the struck-down.

Living, it's awful for me.

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.

I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.

Why doesn't that Devil take me with him? It would be much better with him than it is here.

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

I became bitter, hard, cold. I was always on a panic - couldn't buy clothes or a good place to live.

I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.

Depression can take you into a black hole, so it is terrible.