Alain Resnais Quotes

'Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.

Trust me, you know when you've got depression.

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy.

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 of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.

I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life.

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

You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.

I think I am naturally depressive.

I'm always sad.

They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.

The name of the Slough was Despond.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

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

I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.

At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.

Despair has its own calms.

I'm so involved in melancholy.

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

Nothing good comes out of depression.