Michael Morpurgo Quotes

Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

I lost my parents. I was totally alone and I had to manage everything all alone. It did put me in depression.

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

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

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

When it was all over, and I was left alone in my office, I put my face in my hands and wept. I could do nothing less.

For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker.

I was depressed for a year after 'The Pianist,' and I don't suffer from that, generally. It wasn't just a depression; it was a mourning.

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

The actual thought of not really having a home was, for me, very depressing, and it was something that I was dealing with for quite some time.

For a long time, I didn't want to live.

The disturbing truth we have to recognize is that Bourdain is not alone in his loneliness and depression.