Depression Quotes, Memes, Insights
A unique thing about this collection of depression quotes is that they have been created by individuals who have suffered from the pains of this disorder.
If you feel depressed most of the time, you should know that you are not alone. Some of the greatest men and women have had to deal with it.
It may be hard or impossible to define how it feels, but many have attempted to do so. And many have also attempted to overcome it, with some success.
Here are some of the most notable insights on the subject matter.
Quotes about Depression
1.) Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Rollo May
2.) Depression is like a war. You either win or die trying.
Unknown
3.) Each day, you wake up just to fight the same demons that left you feeling utterly exhausted the day before.
Unknown
4.) You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective – it just means you’re human.
David Mitchell
5.) Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
6.) Pain is emotional. Depression and fear are always in company with chronic hurting.
Siri Hustvedt
7.) Depression is not a sign of weakness. It means you’ve been strong for far too long.
Unknown
8.) You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
Henny Youngman
Depressing Quotes
9.) It’s a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor, never knowing when the light will go on.
Neil Lennon
10.) It’s easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It’s harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.
Stanley Schmidt
11.) To perceive is to suffer.
Aristotle
12.) I feel lost inside myself.
Unknown
13.) Every thought is a battle. Every breath is a war, and I don’t think I’m winning anymore this battle.
Unknown
Sadness Sayings
14.) Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It’s a depressing fact of life that eventually, the clock expires; eventually, the sand in the hourglass runs out. It’s the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.
Ben Shapiro
15.) I had to fight like hell, and fighting like hell has made me what I am.
Unknown
16.) The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
17.) 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
18.) The worst part about depression: the people who don’t have it, they just don’t get it.
Unknown
Overwhelming Sadness
19.) Living with hope is like rubbing up against a cheese grater. It keeps taking slices off you until there’s so little left you just crumble.
Catherine Austen
20.) We can’t breathe because of the pain that we feel inside heart, it feels like drowning deeply.
Unknown
21.) There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
Laurell K. Hamilton
22.) 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. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through.
Stephen Fry
Sorrow and Woe
23.) Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.
Unknown
24.) It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there because it’s not sadness.
J.K Rowling
25.) Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.
Rob Delaney
26.) For in all adversity of fortune, the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
Boethius
Depressed Sayings
27.) The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
28.) I sleep to escape from reality.
Unknown
29.) Wanting to be happy is not the worst thing in the world, but wanting it badly enough to make us depressed is.
John Washington
30.) If life doesn’t kill you, emptiness in Life will surely kill you.
Unknown
31.) Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It’s always there, though.
Jeffrey Eugenides
32.) Depression never arrives alone in Life. It brings its friends with it despair, self-injury, and suicidal thoughts.
Unknown
33.) People aren’t born sad; we make them that way.
Unknown
Sorrow Sayings
34.) Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
35.) 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.
36.) Sadness is a short adjustment period. Depression is a long-term illness.
Unknown
37.) Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.
Madeleine L’Engle
38.) Depression is living in a body that fights to survive, with a mind that tries to die.
Unknown
Love Quotes Depressing
39.) You have moved my world when you came, but you made it shake when you left.
Ishael Ryun
40.) Better to never have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Otomo No Yakamoch
41.) To love and not be loved; is to die and not be dead.
Jerry Darroch
42.) It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.
Ella Harper
43.) Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.
Eileen Mayhew
44.) I am tired of trying; I am tired of crying; I know I have been smiling, but inside I am dying.
Unknown
45.) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
Augustine of Hippo
46.) 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.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
47.) The flame of love is now just a cold loneliness.
Uniek Swain
48.) It’s hard to pretend you love someone when you don’t, but it’s harder to pretend that you don’t love someone when you really do.
Unknown
49.) There is one pain I often feel, which you will never know. It’s caused by the absence of you.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Sad Love Sayings
50.) For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these; It might have been.
John Greenleaf Whittier
51.) A million words would not bring you back; I know because I have tried. Neither would a million tears; I know because I have cried.
Unknown
52.) Sometimes your eyes are not the only place the tears fall from.
Faraaz Kazi
53.) Sometimes you break your heart in the right way if you know what I mean.
Gregory David Roberts
54.) Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never met.
Adam Young
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The Blues
55.) The saddest thing in the world is loving someone who used to love you.
Unknown
56.) There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you.
Steve Maraboli
57.) The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.
William Somerset Maugham
58.) When you are in love and you get hurt, it is like a cut… it will heal, but there will always be a scar.
Unknown
59.) You can close your eyes to things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel.
Johnny Depp
60.) A teardrop is insignificant in a pool of water, but it can touch the soul as it runs down someone’s face.
Unknown
61.) They say follow your heart, but if your heart is in a million pieces which piece do you follow?
Unknown
Feeling Low
62.) There is an ocean of silence between us and I am drowning in it.
Ranata Suzuki
63.) Depression is melancholy minus its charms.
Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor
64.) 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.
Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
65.) People who have never dealt with depression think it’s just being sad or being in a bad mood. That’s not what depression is for me; it’s falling into a state of grayness and numbness.
Dan Reynolds
Mental Health Quote
66.) We would never tell someone with a broken leg that they should stop wallowing and get it together. We shouldn’t treat mental health conditions any differently. Instead, we should make it clear that getting help isn’t a sign of weakness—it’s a sign of strength—and we should ensure that people can get the treatment they need.
Michelle Obama, Former First Lady of the United States
Inspirational Depression Quotes for Strength
67.) 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
68.) Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: It is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’
C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
69.) I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
Andrew Solomon
For Hope and Healing
70.) If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
Unknown
71.) 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
72.) 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
73.) You’ve gotta swim and swim when it hurts. The whole world is watching. You haven’t come this far to fall off the earth.
Andrew McMahon
74.) We take what we get and are thankful it’s no worse than it is.
Margaret Mitchell, “Gone with the Wind
75.) I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you’re not alone.
Dwayne Johnson
Definition of Depression
What is depression? Tens of millions of people suffer from depression, and most of them have to live with it for life. It affects every aspect of your life because it influences how you feel and think.
Being depressed may be caused by an event, but many people suffer from depression without any apparent cause. It makes you feel sad, you lose interest in almost everything, you can have trouble sleeping, and it can even create a sense of guilt or worthlessness.
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought to market over 75 new gift and toy products, most of which involve wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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