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In our society, depression is still a taboo! People are scared to talk about it openly while it is something that affects the life of a person deeply. Being in depression is an everyday battle with your thoughts, with people around you, with yourself while pretending to be okay.
The main reason behind this is that everyone thinks that all of it is in your head, and a single point is enough to trigger the beginning of the depression. We need to speak more about it, about its meaning, and, most importantly, how it can be healed.
Some people restraint, but it’s proven that being open about depression makes you more powerful against it.
Depression is just like any other health issue which can be cured easily, so don’t panic; don’t hide, try out things that make you feel good from inside. Hope our mention quotes will bring you a ray of hope in this journey.
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.
Joyce Meyer
Depression isn’t just being a bit sad. It’s feeling nothing. It’s not wanting to be alive anymore.
J. K. Rowling
Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.
Dorothy Rowe
Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
Mason Cooley
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
Voltaire
There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.
Miriam Toews
Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.
Carrie Fisher
Insanity – a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
R. D. Laing
As I say I don’t want to kill myself, I just wouldn’t mind dying.
Stephen Fry
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
We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.
Mary J. Blige
Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it’s the worst.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Franz Kafka
It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, ‘Nothing good came of this’ is not yet listening.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn’t sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.
Michael Schenker
Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.
Lawrence Klein
Depression is melancholy minus its charms – the animation, the fits.
Susan Sontag
The artist’s personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.
Eric Maisel
I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.
J. K. Rowling
Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it’s not.
Tom Bosley
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn’t given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
Albert Ellis
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Until you’ve had depression I don’t think you’re qualified to talk about it.
Geoffrey Boycott
The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.
Linda Hamilton
Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Ring the bells that still can ring.
Leonard Cohen
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
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Henry David Thoreau
I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
Henry Rollins
Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression.
Stuart Symington
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Rollo May
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Depression And Anxiety Quotes
We all feel sad, lost, and miserable at some point in life, which is normal, but it can change into depression too! So it’s better to be ready to recognize it soon to deal with it medically, mentally and physically. For those who are battling with depression, we know certain things may not work out for you, or the past has been unkind to you.
But instead of caging yourself in your own thoughts, try to be open with friends, family or to your partner because, in the end, it is vital to keep a dialogue open! We know sharing your thoughts in this period becomes difficult, but hurting yourself is not a healthy option.
In our collection of Quotes about Depression, we have tried to bring sayings of famous personalities and experts that will inspire the fight against depression and be kind to yourself.
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
When people don’t know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.
Marion Cotillard
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
Philip K. Dick
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation
When you’re depressed you don’t control your thoughts, your thoughts control you. I wish people understood that.
Anonymous
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
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.
Anonymous
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
People think depression is sadness. People think depression is crying. People think depression is dressing in black. But people are wrong. Depression is the constant feeling of being numb. Being numb to emotions, being numb to life. You wake up in the morning just to go to bed again.
Anonymous
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
Everyday is a second chance.
Anonymous
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
I need one of those long hugs where you kinda forget whatever else is happening around you for minute.
Marilyn Monroe
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
Pythagoras
You’re not a bad person for the ways you tried to kill your sadness.
Anonymous
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
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
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
Having anxiety and depression is like being scared and tired at the same time. It’s the fear of failure, but no urge to be productive. It’s wanting friends, but hate socializing. It’s wanting to be alone, but not wanting to be lonely. It’s feeling everything at once then feeling paralyzingly numb.
Anonymous
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
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
I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed.
Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits
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
One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, and their families feel a sense of shame about it, which doesn’t help. One needs support and understanding. I am now working on an initiative to create awareness about anxiety and depression and help people.
Deepika Padukone
Whenever I have a good few months and I think I’ve gotten over the worst on my depression, it silently returns. This isn’t a battle I asked to fight. I’m tired of knowing it’s always coming back.
Anonymous
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope.
That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.
J.K. Rowling
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
You say you’re ‘depressed’ – all I see is resilience. 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, Cloud Atlas
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. 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
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
When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.
Fiona Apple
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 to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.
Ned Vizzini
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
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
Overcoming Depression Quotes
Depression has become one of the most common mental illnesses these days. When you are sad, little things will work to make you happy, while depression is quite worse. One might be hesitant to express the way they feel, and others might not understand it too!
When everyone tries to cheer you up, instead of feeling good, either you get irritated or end up being confused! Getting diagnosed with depression is not a small thing; someone telling you to “just be happy!” won’t fix the issue.
To heal from depression, the first thing to keep in mind is, it’s okay to feel this way. Seek medical help as well! While you are going through something like depression, try to fill your surroundings with positivity. We’ve gathered some ‘Overcoming depression quotes’ to remind you that you are not alone. You will fight your way through this soon.
I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you’re not alone.
Dwayne Johnson
It’s brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
You say you’re ‘depressed’ – all I see is resilience. 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, Cloud Atlas
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you’re in a room full of a million people.
Lilly Singh
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
When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.
Fiona Apple
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
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
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
Depression, for me, has been a couple of different things – but the first time I felt it, I felt helpless, hopeless, and things I had never felt before. I lost myself and my will to live.
Ginger Zee
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
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
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
I am bent, but not broken. I am scarred, but not disfigured. I am sad, but not hopeless. I am tired, but not powerless. I am angry, but not bitter. I am depressed, but not giving up.
Anonymous
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
If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking.
Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
I have depression. But I prefer to say, ‘I battle’ depression instead of ‘I suffer’ with it. Because depression hits, but I hit back. Battle on.
Anonymous
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
Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.
Atticus, Love Her Wild
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
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
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
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
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
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent.
Elizabeth Wintzel
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
Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
Janet Fitch
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
The persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest in daily activities that were enjoyable before are the signs of someone falling into depression. Be kind to people around you, if you know someone is sad or feeling this way. Support them and share these depression quotes and sayings, which will boost their confidence to stay strong.
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