Even in the darkest of circumstances, these depression quotes might help you see the light.

Allow yourself to believe that you can regain control of your life and happiness, and let these words be your first step.

Depression is a feeling that many of us are all too familiar with.

For fear of more rejection or self-deprecation, many are reluctant to talk about it, which is sad.

Mental health has gone a long way in recent years, but stigmas still linger when it comes to disorders like depression and anxiety.

Eventually, people begin to believe that they are alone and that no one will ever genuinely understand them.

Our collection of inspirational, intelligent, and insightful depression quotes, depression sayings, and depression proverbs has been gathered from a variety of sources over the years to help you know you are not alone.

Check out our collection of mental health quotes and healing quotes if you need more motivation to overcome life’s obstacles. We also have a wonderful selection of quotes about stress on our website. Be sure to check out that article as well!

11. “You’re like a grey sky. You’re beautiful, even though you don’t want to be.” ― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

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12. “Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.” – Swami Sivananda

13. “Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.” ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

14. “Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.” – Pythagoras

15. “You don’t have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.” – Gilbert Baker

16. “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” ― John Keats, Letters of John Keats

17. “The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first, you must have the mud — the obstacles of life and its suffering… ― Goldie Hawn

18. “That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end.” – Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

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Love and family quotes for depression

19. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” ― Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation

If you like these quotes, check out our collection of living life in the moment quotes, which will remind you to live in the moment.

20. “Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.” ― Philip K. Dick

21. “Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.” ― Dorothy M. Neddermeyer

22. “The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

23. “A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life’s gas-pipe with a lighted candle.” ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

24. “All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.” ― Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

25. “Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.” ― Kripalvanandji

26. “I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.” ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (see all suicide quotesto inspire prevention)

27. “I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about If you loved me you would.” –Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

28. “Some friends don’t understand this. They don’t understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you’re wonderful just the way you are. They don’t understand that I can’t remember anyone ever saying that to me. ” – Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

29. “I’m not grateful for depression, but it honestly made me work harder and gave me the drive that I have to succeed and to make it work.” – Lili Reinhart

30. “Mental illness lives all around us every day. I’ve seen it in other family members, I’ve seen it in friends, and I’ve dealt with it myself with my own postpartum depression.” – Rachel Hollis

Relationship quotes for depression

31. “Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours.” ― Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It’s Too Late

32. “Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings.

Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. It is also tiresome. People cannot abide being around you when you are depressed. They might think that they ought to, and they might even try, but you know and they know that you are tedious beyond belief: you are irritable and paranoid and humorless and lifeless and critical and demanding and no reassurance is ever enough.

You’re frightened, and you’re frightening, and you’re “not at all like yourself but will be soon,” but you know you won’t.”

― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

33. “The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can’t get away from it. Not ever.” ― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

34. “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.” ― Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year

35. “Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don’t kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long, hard struggle to stay alive. When somebody dies after a long illness, people are apt to say, with a note of approval, “He fought so hard.” And they are inclined to think, about a suicide, that no fight was involved, that somebody simply gave up. This is quite wrong.” ― Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression

36. “It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitably lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?” ― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

37. “I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out.” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

Loneliness quotes for depression

38. “The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds.

There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.” ― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

If you like these quotes, you might also like our collection of sad love quotes, which can help you cope with painful emotions.

39. “Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.” – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

If you like these quotes, check out our collection of The Fault in Our Stars quotes from the popular film.

40. “If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking ” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

Quotes on depression, pain, and emotions

42. “When you’re lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you’ve just wandered off the path, that you’ll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it’s time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don’t even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert

43. “At heart, I have always been a coper, I’ve mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I’ve always stored up my deep depressive episodes for the weeks off when there was time to have an abbreviated version of a complete breakdown.

But in the end, I’d be able to get up and on with it, could always do what little must be done to scratch by.” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

44. “It’s my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.” ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

45. “Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors…Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat…What then was music created for? Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves? I think I know.” ― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

46. “Because that’s the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don’t want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lungs.

I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It’s mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time.” ― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

47. “I’ve got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts – you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn’t do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.” ― D.D. Barant, Dying Bites

If you like these quotes, you’ll love our insomnia quotes collection for when you can’t sleep.

48. “If I can’t feel, if I can’t move, if I can’t think, and I can’t care, then what conceivable point is there in living?” ― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

49. “I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?” ― Laurie Halse Anderson

Quotes about love and “feeling well” in depression

50. “In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love.” ― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

51. “I’m fine. Well, I’m not fine – I’m here.”

“Is there something wrong with that?”

“Absolutely.”

― Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story

52. “It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.” ― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

53. “Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can’t go through another of those terrible times. And I shan’t recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can’t concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do.

You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don’t think two people could have been happier ’til this terrible disease came. I can’t fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can’t even write this properly. I can’t read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you.

You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that – everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can’t go on spoiling your life any longer. I don’t think two people could have been happier than we have been.” ― Virginia Woolf

If you like these quotes, you’ll appreciate our collection of Virginia Woolf quotes, which will help you better comprehend life.

Prozac Nation quotes on depression

55. “Some catastrophic moments invite clarity, explode in split moments: You smash your hand through a windowpane and then there is blood and shattered glass stained with red all over the place; you fall out a window and break some bones and scrape some skin. Stitches and casts and bandages and antiseptic solve and salve the wounds.

But depression is not a sudden disaster. It is more like a cancer: At first its tumorous mass is not even noticeable to the careful eye, and then one day — wham! — there is a huge, deadly seven-pound lump lodged in your brain or your stomach or your shoulder blade, and this thing that your own body has produced is actually trying to kill you.

Depression is a lot like that: Slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearable. But you won’t even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getting older, about turning eight or turning twelve or turning fifteen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot on the white terrain of human existence.

One morning you wake up afraid you are going to live.

In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.

The actual dying part, the withering away of my physical body, was a mere formality. My spirit, my emotional being, whatever you want to call all that inner turmoil that has nothing to do with physical existence, were long gone, dead and gone, and only a mass of the most fucking god-awful excruciating pain like a pair of boiling hot tongs clamped tight around my spine and pressing on all my nerves was left in its wake.

That’s the thing I want to make clear about depression: It’s got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal — unpleasant, but normal.

Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature’s part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space.

But for all intents and purposes, the deeply depressed are just the walking, waking dead.

And the scariest part is that if you ask anyone in the throes of depression how he got there, to pin down the turning point, he’ll never know.

There is a classic moment in The Sun Also Rises when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, ‘Gradually and then suddenly.’ When someone asks how I love my mind, that is all I can say too”

― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

56. “It’s brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.” ― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

57. “You’re fucked. You thought you were going to be someone, but now it’s obvious you’re nobody. You haven’t got as much talent as you thought you had, and there was no Plan B, and you got no skills and no education, and now you’re looking at forty or fifty years of nothing.

Less than nothing, probably. That’s pretty heavy. That’s worse than having the brain thing, because what you got now will take a lot longer to kill you. You’ve got the choice of a slow, painful death, or a quick, merciful one.” ― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

Anxiety quotes on depression

58. “That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

59. “I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.” ― John Keats

60. “I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow.

There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people’s eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

If you like these quotes, you might also like our collection of Sylvia Plath quotes.

61. “There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,–when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.” ― Kate Chopin

62. “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

63. “It doesn’t get better,” I said. “The pain. The wounds scab over and you don’t always feel like a knife is slashing through you. But when you least expect it, the pain flashes to remind you you’ll never be the same.” ― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

64. “Sometimes I just think depression’s one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there’s so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.” ― Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story

65. “Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness.

Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs.

In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual’s internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.” ― Theodore J. Kaczynski

66. “Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.” ― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

67. “No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won’t hurt” ― Hunter S. Thompson

For more Hunter S. Thompson quotes, see our Hunter S. Thompson quotes page.

Stephen Fry’s depression quotes

69. “Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins – is self pity.

Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred’s a subset of self pity and not the other way around – ‘ It destroys everything around it, except itself ‘.

Self pity will destroy relationships, it’ll destroy anything that’s good, it will fulfill all the prophecies it makes and leave only itself. And it’s so simple to imagine that one is hard done by, and that things are unfair, and that one is underappreciated, and that if only one had had a chance at this, only one had had a chance at that, things would have gone better, you would be happier if only this, that one is unlucky.

All those things. And some of them may well even be true. But, to pity oneself as a result of them is to do oneself an enormous disservice.

I think it’s one of the things we find unattractive about the American culture, a culture which I find mostly, extremely attractive, and I like Americans and I love being in America. But, just occasionally there will be some example of the absolutely ravening self-pity that they are capable of, and you see it in their talk shows. It’s an appalling spectacle, and it’s so self-destructive.

I almost once wanted to publish a self-help book saying ‘How To Be Happy by Stephen Fry : Guaranteed success’. And people buy this huge book and it’s all blank pages, and the first page would just say – ‘ Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself – And you will be happy ‘.

Use the rest of the book to write down your interesting thoughts and drawings, and that’s what the book would be, and it would be true. And it sounds like ‘Oh that’s so simple’, because it’s not simple to stop feeling sorry for yourself, it’s bloody hard. Because we do feel sorry for ourselves, it’s what Genesis is all about.”

―Stephen Fry

70. “Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.” ― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

Quotes about patience and endurance for depression

71. “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

72. “My mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: “Henry, smile! Why don’t you ever smile?” and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw” ― Charles Bukowski

If you like these quotes, be sure to check out our collection of Charles Bukowski quotes to gain a fresh perspective on life.

73. “You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don’t stay children forever.

No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people grow up sooner, many grow up later. Some never really do. But just remember that some people in this world are older versions of those same kids we cry for.” ― Ashly Lorenzana

74. “This fall I think you’re riding for—it’s a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn’t permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling.

The whole arrangement’s designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn’t supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn’t supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started.” ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (see more Catcher in the Rye quotes)

75. “If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill, let yourself fall ill.” ― Jalaluddin Rumi

76. “I can’t eat and I can’t sleep. I’m not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?” ― Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story

77. “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

78. “How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”

79. So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloud shadows, passes over your hands and over all you do.

You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

80. “Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can’t make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don’t get back on track somehow, I’m dead, that’s the sense I get. There isn’t a single strong emotion inside me.” ―Banana Yoshimoto

Life quotes on depression

81. “It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required.

When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.”

― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

82. “If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.” ― Clifford Odets

83. “Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.” ― Stephen Fry

84. “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

85. “Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression’s actual essence, which is an overwhelming estrangement from humanity.

The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it.”

― Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone

86. “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

87. “I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I’d lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be.” ― Marian Keyes, Anybody Out There?

89. “In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

Love quotes for depression

90. “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

Quotes on depression and exhaustion

91. “I wondered why I couldn’t go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn’t go the whole way doing what I shouldn’t, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

92. “I don’t want to do anything. I don’t even want to start this day because then I’ll just be expected to finish it.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

93. “So you try to think of someone else you’re mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.” ― Ellen Hopkins

94. “He: What’s the matter with you?

Me: Nothing.

Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, “but there was nothing the matter with her.” ― Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries

95. “Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off – then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.” ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

97. “It’s 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

98. “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

99. “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, Prozac Nation

100. “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

Inspirational and informative quotes about depression

101. “I’m not better, you know. The weight hasn’t left my head. I feel how easily I could fall back into it, lie down and not eat, waste my time and curse wasting my time, look at my homework and freak out and go and chill at Aaron’s, look at Nia and be jealous again, take the subway home and hope that it has an accident, go and get my bike and head to the Brooklyn Bridge.

All of that is still there. The only thing is, it’s not an option now. It’s just… a possibility, like it’s a possibility that I could turn to dust in the next instant and be disseminated throughout the universe as an omniscient consciousness. It’s not a very likely possibility.” ― Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story

102. “I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?” – Billie Eilish

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103. “It is very hard to explain to people who have never known serious depression or anxiety the sheer continuous intensity of it. There is no off switch.” – Matt Haig

104. “There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.” ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees
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105. “The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing.

The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows.

Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames.

And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.” ― David Foster Wallace

106. “Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.” – Dick Cavett

Depression quotes can inspire you to be brave.

107. “Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent.” – Elizabeth Wintzel

108. “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral’s Kiss

109. “The worst type of crying wasn’t the kind everyone could see–the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it.

A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.” ― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

110. “Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.” – Janet Fitch

111. “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 sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

112. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” — Fredrick Douglas

113. “The strongest people are those who win battles we know nothing about.” – Unknown

114. “Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.” – Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

115. “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — Albus Dumbledore

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116. “Don’t let your struggle become your identity.” – Unknown

117. “In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus

118. “The only journey is the journey within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

119. “Start by doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” — Saint Francis of Assisi

Mental health quotes regarding depression

120. “Even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.” — Charlie from “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”

121. “What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.” – Glenn Close

122. “Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.” — Pastor Rick Warren

123. “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Amy March, from “Little Women”

124. “Mental health…is not a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.” – Noam Shpancer, PhD

125. “Just keep swimming.” — Dory from “Finding Nemo”

126. “You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have the right to be here.” — Max Ehrmann

127. “If we start being honest about our pain, our anger, and our shortcomings instead of pretending they don’t exist, then maybe we’ll leave the world a better place than we found it.” – Russell Wilson

128. “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.”— Charles Bukowski

129. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” — Douglas Adams

130. “Some of the most comforting words in the universe are ‘me too.’ That moment when you find out that your struggle is also someone else’s struggle, that you’re not alone, and that others have been down the same road.” – Unknown

131. “Promise me you’ll always remember — you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — Christopher Robin

Hope-inspiring depression quotes

132. “But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness.”― Robert Uttaro

133. “Even when the world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope.” – Pittacus Lore

134. “Never give up. Have hope. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it.” – Catherine Pulsifer

135. “You cannot change anyone but yourself. Always hope for the best, but keep living your life no matter what.” – Kate Anderson

136. “There is always hope for a new day, hope that the darkness won’t always seem impenetrable. There is always hope because our Redeemer lives.” – Marcia Laycock

137. “But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.” – Edgar Guest

138. “In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced.” –  Fritz Knapp

139. “The difference between hope and despair is the ability to believe in tomorrow.” – Jerry Grillo

140. “Even your past pain can be a blessing to someone. Hope lifters are willing to reach back and pass hope on.” – Kathe Wunnenberg

141. “Anticipate good things will happen, keep your mind positive, never lose hope, and it will amaze you.” – C Pulsifer

Inspirational depression quotes to cheer you up

142.“As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.” ― Edward Abbey

143. “He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.”― Jeffrey Eugenides

144. “Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one’s own skilled action.”― Robert M. Sapolsky

145. “When your past shows up to haunt you, make sure it comes after supper so it doesn’t ruin your whole day.”― Jay Wickre

146. “I can feel the hurt. There’s something good about it. Mostly it makes me stop remembering.”― Albert Borris

147. “I keep telling you that feeling is not selective. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else either.”― Judith Guest

148. “There is nothing to save, now all is lost,
but a tiny core of stillness in the heart
like the eye of a violet.”― D.H. Lawrence

149. “Depression is not madness, it’s just depression, the loser version, the low-energy response to bad stuff that happens in your life. When you’re depressed, you think you’re the only one to have ever tasted this kind of hurt. And that lonely self-regard brings with it its own painful pleasure.”― Ana Menendez

Quotes that make you feel better if you’re depressed

152. “Life is not a dress rehearsal. Every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment.” — Sally Karioth

153. “The only cure I have ever known for fear and doubt and loneliness is an immense love of self.” – ALISON MALEE

154. “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” — William James

155. “It is okay to still be putting yourself together.” – B.M.

156. “Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen

157. “Healing is an inside job.” – Dr. B.J. Palmer

158. “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer

159. “If you are in a bad mood go for a walk. If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.” ― Hippocrates

160. “Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.” — Matt Lucas

161. “The mind is everything.  What you think you become.” – Buddha

Quotes about depression that can remind you of your strength

162. “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” — Carl Jung

163. “It is okay to admit that your wounds are still open. That you are still healing. It takes time. It takes time.” – ALISON MALEE

164. “Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” — Buddha

165. “Do not ever let agony get comfortable beneath your skin.” – F.D. SOUL

166. “I’m hurt, and I’m heartbroken, and I’m sad, and I’m depressed, and I’ve been crying, but I don’t wanna let it ruin my life.” – Unknown

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167. “Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice. It takes love.” – Maza Dohta

168. “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” ― Deepak Chopra

169. “It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.”— Isaac Asimov

170. “Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.” — Madeleine L’Engle

171. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Dennis P. Kimbro

Quotes to lift your spirits if you’re down

172. “You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” — Steve Maraboli

173. “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

174. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside of you that is greater than any obstacle.” — Christian D Larson

175. “The way you speak of yourself, the way you degrade yourself, into smallness is abuse.” – RUPI KAUR

176. “You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” ― Dan Millman

177. “Awareness is the first step in healing.” – Dean Ornish

178. “People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” ― George Bernard Shaw

179. “You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”— Louise L. Hay

180. “There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.” — C. S. Lewis

181. “Always end the day with a positive thought. No matter how hard things were, tomorrow is a fresh opportunity to make it better.” – Unknown

Depression Quotes to lift your spirits

182. “Everything you have ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear.” — George Addair

183. “I don’t pay attention to the world ending. It has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.” – NAYYIRAH WAHEED

184. “You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.” — Eckhart Tolle

185. “Show me the most damaged parts of your soul, and I will show you how it still shines like gold.” – NIKITA GILL

186. “The only way out is through.” ― Robert Frost

187. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller

188. “Once you choose hope, anything is possible.” — Christopher Reeve

189. “In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”— Albert Camus

190. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I’m possible!” – Audrey Hepburn

191. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” ― Roy T. Bennett

Depression quotes that cheer you up

192. “There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

193. “You will feel better than this, maybe not yet, but you will. You just keep living until you are alive again.” – CALL THE MIDWIFE

194. “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.” — Wayne W. Dyer

195. “But if you’re broken, you don’t have to stay broken.” – SELENA GOMEZ

196. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

197. “One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison.” – Steve Maraboli

198. “A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.” — Joyce Meyer

199. “Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget about everything except what you’re going to do now — and do it.”— William Durant

200. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Unknown

201. “Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.” — William James

Quotes and sayings about depression

202. “I’ll never forget how depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.” – Henry Rollins

203. “A lot of people don’t realize that depression is an illness. I don’t wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.” – Jonathan Davis

204. “You sometimes think you want to disappear, but all you really want is to be found.” – Unknown

205. “There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.” – Miriam Toews

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206. “I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I’m so depressed, or life is terrible.” – Tony Curtis

207. “In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus

208. “Sometimes when I say “I’m okay”, I want someone to look me in the eyes, and say, “I know you’re not.” – Unknown

209. “My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.” – Patty Duke

210. “Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.” – Miriam Toews

211. “Just remember that the darkest night did not turn out all the stars.” –
Louis Mann

Inspirational and uplifting depression quotes

212. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” – Unknown

213. “Depression isn’t always at 3am. Sometimes it happens at 3pm, while you’re with friends and you’re halfway through a laugh.” – Unknown

214. “Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.” – Rob Delaney

215. “Having depression is being in an abusive relationship with yourself.” – Emily Dotterer

216. “Pain is emotional. Depression and fear are always in company with chronic hurting.” – Siri Hustvedt

217. “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

218. “Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I’ve made that commitment for my life’s sake and for the sake of those who love me.” – Susan Polis Schutz

219. “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

220. “People with depression have something very valuable to teach us… how to live when it doesn’t ever feel good.” – Kay Warren

Quotes about depression that will make you feel better

221. “I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.” – Kevin Gates

222. “You got this. One day at a time. You are resilient, courageous, and capable. Be proud of yourself. It isn’t easy enduring depression/anxiety.” – The Anxiety Man (@RealAnxietyMan)

223. “Only stepping out of old ruts will bring new insights.” – Andy Grove

224. “Every day of our lives, we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.” – Mignon McLaughlin

225. “The Universe has your back even when things aren’t working out the way you expected.” – Gabby Bernstein

226. “Being depressed, all I needed was someone who could listen to me, believe in me, encourage me, but most of all, understand me.” – Maxime Lagacé

227. “Nothing has a hold on your mind that you cannot break free of.” – Iyanla Vanzant

228. “If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.” – Stephen Fry

229. “It’s not too late to recover. You’re young, you’re tough. You’re adaptable. You can patch up your wounds, lift up your head and move on.” – Haruki Murakami

230. “We can’t take away the suffering of others. What we can do is show up for them. And in doing so, take away the pain of having to suffer alone.” – Jason Garner

Depression Quotes to cheer you up if you’re having a bad day

231. “What is depression like? It’s like drowning, except everyone around you is breathing.” – Unknown

232. “It is okay to have depression, it is okay to have anxiety and it is okay to have an adjustment disorder. We need to improve the conversation. We all have mental health in the same way we all have physical health.” — Prince Harry

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233. “Depression is feeling like you’ve lost something but having no clue when or where you last had it. Then one day you realize what you lost is yourself.”- Unknown

234. “I was born with a great awareness of my surroundings and other people … Sometimes that awareness is good, and sometimes I wish I wasn’t so sensitive.” — Scarlett Johansson

235. “Depression doesn’t take away your talents—it just makes them harder to find.” — Lady Gaga

236. “If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you’re a badass with a heart of an angel.” — Keanu Reeves

237. “I tend to get pretty depressed and I have some issues with anxiety and things like that … For me, it’s more psychological. Exercise is a means of expelling those demons.” — Ryan Reynolds

238. “There are times when explanations, no matter how reasonable, just don’t seem to help.”- Unknown

239. “I disliked myself so intensely. It was just a mindset. I didn’t know how to love myself. I didn’t know how to love anybody.” — Anne Hathaway​

240. “There is no person in this whole world who is a mistake, no matter how different that person may seem.”– Fred Rogers

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Depression quotes that will help you get through the dark times

241. “Caught in your youniverse again? Try reaching out to the one besides you!”― Stefan Emunds

242. “If you often feel alone, ignored, or forgotten, think about this: closing the door and locking yourself in won’t change anything—literally and figuratively.”― Richelle E. Goodrich

243. “A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience.”― Ian Fleming

244. “Take control of your emotions before your emotions take control of you.”― Scott Dye

245. “No matter how dark the night may get, your light will never burn out.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

246. “Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.”― John Piper

247. “Only you can make yourself strong. Nobody else can do it for you.”
― Kim Pape

248. “Every soul craves to fill the void. Only God can satisfy and set us free.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

249. “There is a difference between depression and sadness. I am happy to be sad.”― Amanda Mosher

250. “Life is a battle, so do not give up fighting.”― Savannah Harris

Quotes about depression to remind you that you are not alone

251. “A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.”― Andrew Solomon

252. “Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.”― Edward St. Aubyn

253. “You didn’t get past something like that, you go through it — and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.”― Jodi Picoult

254. “Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is a plain and simple reduction of feeling.”― Judith Guest

255. “Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.”― Jennifer Elisabeth

256. “Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.”― Kay Redfield Jamison

257. “You don’t know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins.”― Rachel Klein

258. “Depression is anger turned inward.”― Sapphire, Push

259. “Maybe all you need to pull you back from the ledge is to know someone would miss you if you fell.”― Leah Raeder

260. “However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people’s suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.”― Dorothy Rowe

Depression quotes that are profound

261. “Not all storms come to disturb your life. Some come to clear your path.” – Unknown

262. “Suffering is not holding you; you are holding suffering.” – Osho

263. “Difficult events occur for our spiritual growth. These aren’t meant to be punishment. Beautiful sunset awaits after heavy rain.” – Haemin Sunim

264. “We are always trying to build a bridge between ‘what is’ and ‘what should be’. And in that, there is contradiction and conflict.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

265. “Meditation can and will order your thinking and therefore your mind. As we heal the wounded places in our minds, we grow.” – Iyanla Vanzant

266. “Nothing is more depressing than despite the fact of having it all but still feeling empty.” – Unknown

267. “The greatest wisdom lies on the other side, immediately on the other side, of the greatest despair.” – Alan Watts

268. “Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.” – Siri Hustvedt

269. “Depression is a gift. The only inconvenience is that you need to wait a few weeks, and sometimes a few years, to appreciate it. Be patient.” – Maxime Lagacé

270. “My life is just one constant battle between wanting to be alone, but not wanting to be lonely.” – Unknown

Depression quotes that you can relate to

271. “When you do not get to the root of the problem, you cannot solve it in any meaningful manner.” – Robert Greene

272. “Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

273. “Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.” – Pema Chödrön

274. “I’m tired of trying, sick of crying, I know I’ve been smiling, but inside I’m dying.” – Unknown

275. “The faster you accept reality, the faster you find peace of mind.” – Maxime Lagacé

276. “Almost everyone is overconfident except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.” – Joseph T. Hallinan

277. “We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in.” – Alan Watts

278. “My silence is just another word for my pain.” – Unknown

279. “In the flame of awareness, all problems are finally resolved.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

280. “I’m the type of girl who smiles to make everyone’s day. Even though I’m dying on the inside.” – Unknown

Depression quotes to remind you that there is light at the end of the tunnel

281. “I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.”― Jennifer Elisabeth

282. “It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.”― John Howard Griffin

283. “I am a work in progress.”― Violet Yates

284. “The smiles of the unhappiest are often the widest.”― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

285. “I remain someone of little consequence, as if nothing more than dandelion fluff caught on a breeze.”― Kelly Moran

286. “I mustn’t run away.”― Hideaki Anno

287. “You are a warrior in a dark forest, with no compass and are unable to tell who the actual enemy is, So you never feel safe ..”― Anonymous

288. “I got a monster within . . . my own self!”― John Zea

289. “The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.”― Brian Sutton-Smith

290. “It’s been raining outside and I feel like a sad poet, hating my imagination pissing on the roof.”― Munia Khan

Other depression quotes and sayings

291. “Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live.”― Elizabeth Wurtzel

292. “The world can ask you to participate, but it’s a day-today decision if you want to agree to that proposal.”― Aimee Bender

293. “I am alive because you want me to.”― Santosh Kalwar

294. “The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne.”― William Styron

295. “You always say such lovely things to me, Red. Do you say them to yourself?”― Talia Hibbert

296. “Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

297. “Sometimes we create such powerful illusions, so that we do not get lost in the darkness.”― Christy Lefteri

298. “I was so self-critical. I still am; but it’s not as bad anymore.”― Fiona Apple

299. “Your silence furnishes a dark house.
But even at the risk of burning,
the moth always seeks the light.”― Elizabeth Acevedo

300. “I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear.”
― Sharon E. Rainey

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Hopefully, even just a glimmer of light from the preceding quotes can brighten your day. You are not alone, and just hold on when you think all hope is gone.

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