Success Quote by Michael Schenker

“Depression is something that makes you lose your sight” lands like a guitarist’s bluntest lyric: not polished, not clinical, but sharply physical. Coming from Michael Schenker, a musician whose life has been spent inside amplifiers, tours, and the volatile economy of attention, the metaphor reads less like abstract philosophy and more like a report from the road. Depression isn’t framed as sadness; it’s framed as impaired perception. You don’t just feel bad, you can’t see straight.

The line works because “sight” is doing double duty. It’s literal vision (the world goes dim, details blur) and it’s direction: foresight, perspective, the ability to imagine a next step. Depression, in this telling, is an internal blackout that robs you of choices before it robs you of joy. That’s why the phrase hits harder than the usual language of “feeling down.” It implies danger: if you can’t see, you can’t navigate, you can’t trust your instincts, you can’t read other people accurately. Your whole decision-making apparatus goes offline.

There’s also a musician’s subtext in it: sight as stage lights, as being seen, as the feedback loop between performer and audience. Depression interrupts that loop. It isolates you even in a room full of people, turning applause into noise and opportunity into threat. The sentence is simple because the experience is brutally simple: the world is still there, but your access to it isn’t.