Rashad Evans Quotes

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.

I wanted to cry because it took me so many years

80% of everything I've experienced since the Verve has been depressing.

To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

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

I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

Honestly, I'm so sick of myself.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't.

I am sick at heart at the mistakes and lost opportunities that are so prevalent.

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

I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based on this sadness and tired emotional disdain for the world.

I read 'The Bell Jar' as an adolescent and, like most teenagers, had no problem identifying with a young woman who had everything going for her - looks, talent, opportunity, with her 'whole life ahead of her,' yadda, yadda, yadda - yet was spiraling into misery.

As a boy and even now, I am wont to melancholy. I do, probably once a day, experience a sincere heartbreak.