Surrounded by assholes?

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem,
first make sure that you are not, in fact, simply surrounded by assholes.
- William Gibson

To be alive is a grand thing

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, desperately, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing
- Agatha Christie

When my heart was touched

I was never insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

 - Edgar Allan Poe

Empty

Hell is empty and all the devils are here
- William Shakespeare

Melancholy

And so being young and dipped with folly, I fell in love with melancholy.
- Edgar Allan Poe