Daniel Handler Quotes

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

I had sadness for breakfast.

And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore.

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts I never really dreamed of heaven much Until we put him in the ground. There is nothing as lucky, as easy, or free

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

Now I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within.

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

When Michael died I was tipped over the edge. I was beyond grief.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away.

Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

The root of the problem I have is anxiety, and it's all derived from something - I'm just going to say it, some kind of sadness. It manifests in so many different ways and it affects people differently.

There's definitely sadness happening in this band. I get melancholy every day about things.

Grief, for me, is a moment-to-moment experience.

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

I understand the power of sorrow, and I understand how far it can take us from ourselves if we let it.

Grief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down.

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.

Unfortunately, I can’t run from my heart. It hurts, deep inside my body. And I know I’ll never be the same.

In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms and kiss it. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.