Depression Quotes

88 Depression quotes

1. A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you’re in a room full of a million people. — Lilly Singh

2. A child’s mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support. No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm. — Kate Middleton

3. A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.

4. After every Olympics, I think I fell into a major state of depression, and after 2012, that was probably the hardest fall for me. I didn’t want to be in the sport anymore…a year and a half, two years after that…I didn’t want to be alive anymore. I think people actually finally understand it’s real. People are talking about it, and I think this is the only way that it can change. — Michael Phelps

5. All it takes is a beautiful fake smile to hide an injured soul, and they will never notice how broken you really are. — Robin Williams

6. Almost everyone is overconfident—except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists. — Joseph T. Hallinan

7. Being an actress hasn’t made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress. — Amy Adams

8. But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He’s going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it. — Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

9. 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

10. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. — Suzanne Collins

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

12. Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is. — Atticus, Love Her Wild

13. 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

14. 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, The Marriage Plot

15. Depression is melancholy minus its charms. — Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor

16. 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

17. Depression is your body saying, ‘I don’t want to be this character anymore. I don’t want to hold up this avatar that you’ve created in the world. It’s too much for me. You should think of the word ‘depressed’ as ‘deep rest.’ Your body needs to be depressed. It needs deep rest from the character that you’ve been trying to play. — Jim Carrey

18. Depression isn’t a war you win. It’s a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It’s one bloody fray after another. — Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

19. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. — Stephen Fry

20. 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

21. Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don’t stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself sink. Because you’ll never know true happiness until someone or something pulls you back out of that river—and you’ll never believe it until you realize it was you, yourself who saved you. — Alysha Speer

22. Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be. — Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

23. 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

24. Everyday is a second chance. — Anonymous

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. — Sylvia Plath, Ariel

29. 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

30. I didn’t know why I was feeling anxious or what was wrong with me, when I would go into public and feeling like I could vomit. I didn’t know why I wanted to sit on a couch while I was supposedly becoming something that everyone was so excited for me. — Goldie Hawn

31. 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

32. 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

33. 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

34. 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

35. I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you’re not alone. — Dwayne Johnson

36. 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

37. 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

38. I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions when all sorts of grief and sort of lies and misconceptions and everything are coming to you from every angle. — Prince Harry

39. I moved out of L.A., went into a severe depression, started seeing a therapist and had to go on antidepressants for the first time in my life. It was scary and lonely. I can’t believe I came back from that point. — Ellen DeGeneres

40. I need one of those long hugs where you kinda forget whatever else is happening around you for minute. — Marilyn Monroe

41. 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

42. I understand your pain. Trust me, I do. I’ve seen people go from the darkest moments in their lives to living a happy, fulfilling life. You can do it, too. I believe in you. You are not a burden. You will NEVER BE a burden. — Sophie Turner

43. I was 25 years old. I had my own TV show. I was happy with my work, but I couldn’t figure out what it was; it doesn’t always make sense is my point. It’s not just people who can’t find a job, or can’t fit in in society that struggle with depression sometimes. — Jared Padalecki

44. 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

45. I went through a time where I was really depressed. Like, I locked myself in my room, and my dad had to break my door down. It was a lot to do with, like, I had really bad skin, and I felt really bullied because of that. But I never was depressed because of the way someone else made me feel; I just was depressed. — Miley Cyrus

46. 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

47. I’m very available to depression. I can slip in and out of it quite easily. It started when my granddad died, when I was about 10, and while I never had a suicidal thought, I have been in therapy, lots. — Adele

48. If you could read my mind, you wouldn’t be smiling. — Tamara Ireland Stone, Every Last Word

49. 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

50. 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

51. 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. — Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

52. In the silence of night, I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. — Judy Garland

53. 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

54. 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

55. 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

56. It’s my mission to share this with the world and to let them know that there is life on the other side of those dark times that seem so hopeless and helpless. I want to show the world that there is life—surprising, wonderful and unexpected life after diagnosis. — Demi Lovato

57. 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

58. Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it. — Dorothy M. Neddermeyer

59. 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

60. Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living. — Jo Nesbo

61. 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

62. Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent. — Elizabeth Wintzel

63. 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

64. My brain and my heart are really important to me. I don’t know why I wouldn’t seek help to have those things be as healthy as my teeth. I go to the dentist. So why wouldn’t I go to a shrink? — Kerry Washington

65. No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one’s dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

66. 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

67. 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

68. Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions. — Miriam Toews, Swing Low

69. Rain makes me feel less alone. All rain is, is a cloud—falling apart, and pouring its shattered pieces down on top of you. It makes me feel good to know I’m not the only thing that falls apart. It makes me feel better to know other things in nature can shatter. — Lone Alaskan Gypsy

70. She was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute, she would be in tears like a porcelain angel, about to teeter, fall and break. She never cried because she was afraid that something ‘would’ happen; she would cry because she feared something that could render the world more beautiful, ‘would not’ happen. — Roman Payne, The Wanderess

71. 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

72. 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

73. Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes. Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You’re doing just fine. — Charlotte Eriksson

74. That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful. — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

75. 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

76. The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy. — Pete Wentz

77. 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

78. 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

79. They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss. — Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

80. Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction and life paralysis. — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

81. 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

82. When people don’t know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental. — Marion Cotillard

83. When you’re depressed, you don’t control your thoughts; your thoughts control you. I wish people understood that. — Anonymous

84. 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

85. 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

86. 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

87. You’re not a bad person for the ways you tried to kill your sadness. — Anonymous