Depression Quotes
Depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness, lack of interest and interferes with your daily life. Anyone who has suffered from depression will tell you that one of the hardest aspects is feeling isolated.
Depression is a common mental health problem that is why we have compiled an array of depression quotes and sayings to help you see the light even in the darkest of times in your life.
70 Depression Quotes To Uplift You
“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
“Depression lies. It tells you you’ve always felt this way, and you always will. But you haven’t, and you won’t. “ – Halley Cornell
“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
“Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.” – Matt Lucas
“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.” – Pythagoras
“The scientific evidence is clear that exercise significantly reduces depression and anxiety.” – Johann Hari
“I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.” – Christopher Hitchens
“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
“No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever. The storm is just passing over.” – Iyanla Vanzant
“If you are depressed and anxious, the main thing I want to tell you is: your pain makes sense. It has meaning. You aren’t a machine with broken parts. You are a human being with unmet needs. Don’t let anyone tell you you’re crazy or broken. You deserve love and practical support. “ – Johann Hari
“I struggled with anxiety and depression and questioned whether or not I wanted to be alive anymore. It was when I hit this low that I decided to reach out and ask for the help of a licensed therapist. This decision ultimately helped save my life. You don’t have to wait for things. “ – Michael Phelps
“I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.” – Ji-Hae Park
“Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.” – Rob Delaney
“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
“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
“Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.” – Irving Kirsch
“With depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you’re not alone.” – Dwayne
“Don’t trust your thought when you are depressed. It is highly unlikely that it is true. Whatever you are depressed about won’t last forever.” – Haemin Sunim
“I was only able to start changing my life when I realized my depression was not a malfunction. It’s a signal. Your depression is a signal. It’s telling you something.” – Johann Hari
“It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling—that really hollowed-out feeling.” – J.K. Rowling
“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
“Depression is, in part, grief for your own life not turning out how it should; grief for your own needs not being met.” – Johann Hari
“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
“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.” ― Dodie Smith
“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
“Depression is rage spread thin.” – George Santayana
“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
“You largely constructed your depression. It wasn’t given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.” – Albert Ellis
“Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.” – Miriam Toews
“Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.” – Janet Fitch
“Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.” – Mariella Frostrup
“That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.” – Ernest Hemingway
“Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.” – Joyce Meyer
“Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; Depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.” – Andrew Solomon
“At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.” – Dorothy Hamill
“Anger is energizing. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.” – Gloria Steinem
“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
“Depression and anxiety are a symptom of too much consumption and too little creation. You were put on this earth to create.” – Bill Masur
“Depression is a kind of constricted consciousness.” – Bill Richards
“Depression is living in a body that fights to survive, with a mind that tries to die.” – Danny Baker
“I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.” – Elizabeth Wurtzel
“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
“Depression is frustrating. It’s knowing there’s so much to be grateful for and happy about and to enjoy, but you just can’t get there.” – Allie Griffin
“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
“All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.” ― Tom Robbins
“Depressed means you need deep rest from the character you’ve been playing in the world.” – Jim Carrey
“Almost everyone is overconfident except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.” – Joseph T. Hallinan
“I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.” – Amy Winehouse
“Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.” – Atticus
“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
“Depression is being sad and not remembering why.” – Atticus
“Depression is a medical condition. We need to create a world where people are as comfortable seeking care for their minds as they are for their bodies.” – Adam Grant
“Depression doesn’t take away your talents—it just makes them harder to find.” – Lady Gaga
“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
“To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins.” – Patt Stanger
“A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you’re in a room full of a million people.” – Lily Singh
“The opposite of play is not work – the opposite of play is depression.” – Stuart Brown
“Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.” – Jane McGonigal
“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
“Depression and I are old friends but I do not court his company.” – Laura K. Rhodes
“My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.” – Patty Duke
“Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.” – Susan Polis Schutz
“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton
― Laurell K. Hamilton
“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
“Depression and anxiety can’t fit in your head if you’re cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.” – Austin Butler
“Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.” – Jeanette Winterson
“It’s brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.” – Nick Hornby
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by as*sholes.” – William Gibson
“Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.” – Dorothy Rowe
“I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life. I just want these kids to know that this modern thing, where everyone is feeling shallow and less connected…that’s not human.” – Lady Gaga