Looking for insightful depression quotes that will help you on your journey?
People grow to feel like they are alone, that no one can understand them. But here depression quotes that will hopefully let you not only feel understood but also let you know that you are not alone.
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Depression Quotes
“Depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show me their badges. I know these guys very well.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“Behind my smile is a hurting heart, behind my laugh I’m falling apart. Look closely at me and you will see, the girl I am, it isn’t me.”
“I think one thing is that anybody who’s had to contend with mental illness – whether it’s depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever – actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they’ve had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.” – Kay Redfield Jamison
“If you don’t think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.” – Kris Carr
“Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern, just the slow erosion of self, as insidious as cancer. And like cancer, it is essentially a solitary experience; a room in hell with only your name on the door”
“I don’t think people understand how stressful it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself”.
“But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.” – Bob Geldof
“What if I feel this way for the rest of my life?”
“Everyone thinks I’ve gotten better. I haven’t. I’ve just gotten better at hiding it.”
“Depression isn’t always at 3am. Sometimes it happens at 3pm, while you’re with friends and you’re halfway through a laugh”
“I’m fine, I’m just tired”. My depression is setting in but I don’t want to bother you with it.”
“Depression is the inability to construct a future.” – Rollo May
“And then it all started to fall apart. Again…”
“It hurts but it’s ok… I’m used to it”
“My head is a very dark place”
“Depression is not a sign of weakness. It means you’ve been strong for far too long.”
“Depression is like a war. You either win or die trying”.
“I’m often silent when I’m screaming inside”“And then suddenly I became sad for no reason at all”
“You think you want to die but in reality you just want to be saved”
“Part of me wants to die tonight, part of me wants it to be an accident and part of me wants somebody to notice and stop me”
“Sometimes when I say “I’m okay”, I want someone to look me in the eyes, and say, “I know you’re not”
“Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.” – Matt Lucas
“At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.” – Dorothy Hamill
“The five stages – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance – are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.” – Rob Delaney
“To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins.” – Patti Stanger
“Depression isn’t about, ‘Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other’, it’s like having the worst flu all day that you just can’t kick.” – Robbie Williams
“I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn’t one I’ll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it’s worth it.” – Elizabeth Wurtzel
“I’m happy, I would say that I’m one of the happiest people I know but I’ve certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.” – Richard Marx
“Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation progr
Depression Quotes About Family And Love
“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
“Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don’t believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future.
Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it’s good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.” ― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
“I’m the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther into the background. Just like the Cheshire cat, someday I will suddenly leave, but the artificial warmth of my smile, that phony, clownish curve, the kind you see on miserably sad people and villains in Disney movies, will remain behind as an ironic remnant.
I am the girl you see in the photograph from some party someplace or some picnic in the park, the one who is in fact soon to be gone. When you look at the picture again, I want to assure you, I will no longer be there. I will be erased from history, like a traitor in the Soviet Union. Because with every day that goes by, I feel myself becoming more and more invisible…”― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
“I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.” ― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
“I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.” ― Sylvia Plath
“I don’t want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave.
Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can’t even see it, something that’s drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.”-Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
“Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That’s above and beyond everything else, and it’s not a mental complaint-it’s a physical thing, like it’s physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out.
They don’t come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people’s words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.”-Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story
“I don’t want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
“I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”― Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins
“Because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don’t know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going?
Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sicknes
Depression Quotes And Sayings
People with depression have something very valuable to teach us… how to live when it doesn’t ever feel good.Kay Warren
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.Laurell K. Hamilton
It’s like being in a glass elevator in the middle of a crowded mall; you see everything and would love to join in, but the door won’t open so you can’t.Lisa Moore Sherman
It’s not always the tears that measure the pain. Sometimes it’s the smile we fake.unknown
Depression is like being in a totally round room and looking for a corner to sit in.Laura Sloate
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.Mother Teresa
Telling a depressed person to be happy is the same as telling a cancer patient to cure themselves.Dissentient
Often the people with the strongest hearts carry the heaviest ones.unknown
You sometimes think you want to disappear, but all you really want is to be found.unknown
Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.Joyce Meyer
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn’t given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.Albert Ellis
Depression is like falling so deep down the rabbit hole you forget what the sky looks like.Robin Brodsky Curtin
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.Henry Ward Beecher
The worst kind of pain is when you’re smiling just to stop the tears for falling.unknown
No one is depressed when they’re being chased by a bear.Adam Carolla
Depression is living in a body that fights to survive, with a mind that tries to die.unknown
If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking.Elizabeth Wurtzel
There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.Dante
Having depression is being in an abusive relationship with yourself.Emily Dotterer
If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.Dr. Rollo May
Sometimes It’s easier to pretend that you don’t care, than to admit it’s killing you.unknown
Do not be depressed. Do not let your weakness make you impatient. Instead, let the serenity of your spirit shine through your face. Let the joy of your mind burst forth.Peter Damian
Being depressed is like being grounded except it’s your brain ruining your life instead of your mom.unknown
If depression is creeping up and must be faced, learn something about the nature of the beast: You may escape without a mauling.Dr. R. W. Shepherd
A new study found that people who are depressed have a greater risk of stroke. Well that should cheer them up.Jay Leno
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking.Elayne Boosler
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.Jim Rohn
You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.Dalai Lama
It’s a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor never knowing when the light will go on.Neil Lennon
Depression Quotes – To Help In Difficult Time
The only cure I have ever known for fear and doubt and loneliness is an immense love of self.ALISON MALEE
Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.DOROTHY ROWE
It is okay to admit that your wounds are still open. That you are still healing. It takes time. It takes time.ALISON MALEE
Depression is being sad and not remembering why.ATTICUS
Pause your life if you need to, care for yourself lovingly, do not ignore your rest, slow down so you can take a deep breath.YUNG PUEBLO
You deserve roots that do not, even on their worst days, strangle you.ALISON MALEE
I don’t pay attention to the world ending. It has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.NAYYIRAH WAHEED
Choose everyday to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed and most of all worthy of love.ALISON MALEE
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; Depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.ANDREW SOLOMON
And all of a sudden I felt really tired. Like the world had drained me for everything that I had.BGT
You will feel better than this, maybe not yet, but you will. You just keep living until you are alive again.CALL THE MIDWIFE
It is okay to still be putting yourself together.B.M.
He isn’t coming back, whispered my head. He has to, sobbed by heart.RUPI KAUR
Do not ever let agony get comfortable beneath your skin.F.D. SOUL
Even strong hearts break.R.H. SIN
The way you speak of yourself, the way you degrade yourself, into smallness is abuse.RUPI KAUR
Show me the most damaged parts of your soul, and I will show you how it still shines like gold.NIKITA GILL
Sometimes I get so sad. So sad that I completely shut down. I stare blankly at the wall and it doesn’t matter what you say to me. Because in that moment. I don’t exist.ANONYMOUS
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.LAURELL K. HAMILTON
You have sadness living in places sadness shouldn’t live.RUPI KAUR
It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness.J.K. ROWLING
But if you’re broken, you don’t have to stay broken.SELENA GOMEZ
And sometimes letting go is the only option sometimes saving yourself is the only way.R.H. SIN
The only thing exhausting than being depressed is pretending you’re not.ANONYMOUS
I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.ELIZABETH WURTZEL
She was just another broken doll, dreaming of a boy with glue.ATTICUS
Depression is living in a body that fights to survive, with a mind that tries to die.ANONYMOUS
I felt like you threw me so far from myself I’ve been trying to find my way back ever since.RUPI KAUR
She knew she was really sad, when she stopped loving the things she loved.ATTICUS
People aren’t born sad; we make them that way.NIKITA GILL
She wasn’t sad anymore, she was numb, and numb, she knew, was somehow worse.ATTICUS
What is depression like? It’s like drowning, except you can see everyone around you breathing.ANONYMOUS
That’s how depression hits. You wake up one morning, afraid that you’re gonna live.ELIZABETH WURTZEL
Promises are weapon; Please only wield them when you need, For just a touch of one left broken. Is all it takes to make you bleed.E.H.
Depression is melancholy minus its charms.SUSAN SONTAG
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.ELIZABETH WURTZEL
All of the love in the world doesn’t seem to matter, if it isn’t the kind you want, from the person you need.JESSICA KATOFF
It felt like this was never going to end. The world wasn’t going to stop crashing down until there was nothing left of me but dust.KEARY TAYLOR
I’m sorry that you’re dealing with a heart the you didn’t break. Hopelessly apologeticSARAH
Falling for you was more like drowning; the further I sank, the more it hurt, until the pressure