Claude Vorilhon Quotes

It's been like a bad dream I never woke from.

I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

Hell is indefinite.

One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.

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

I suffer from everyday life.

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

Who wants to live forever?

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

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.

We have discovered the secret of life.

I don't want to die.

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

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 thought it would be a fun change of pace to do a show about a really sad, depressed character.

There is a lot of sadness in America.

I want to live until they find a cure for dying.

Everybody has unhappiness.

Dysphoria will always be a painful place.

At Westboro, the depictions of hell are extremely vivid. The only thing that changes in hell, according to the church, is your capacity to feel pain. As the capacity to feel pain increases, so does the pain. It's absolutely terrifying. I believed God was going to curse me for having left this group of people.

At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite.