Uplifting Depression Quotes and Sayings
Depression gives you a feeling that a dark shadow has slowly but steadily crept over your entire life, influencing each area in a negative way. Though you may feel as if you are facing your struggle entirely alone, there are many other individuals confronted with similar problems. Depression is an extremely trying and difficult experience in life but you can get through it, and there is hope for your future.
Find below, inspiring quotes and sayings that you can share with your friend, wife, husband, girlfriend, or loved one that is feeling depressed.
Uplifting Quotes For Depression and Anxiety
If you don’t think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days. – Kris Carr
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
Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.-Clive Barker
“The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.” —Tenzin Gyatso
“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
Depression is that pair of filthy glasses. It is a clouded version of reality. You can see just enough to crudely navigate through your day, yet not enough to see the world as it really is. -C.M. Fraser
“At the end of the day, tell yourself gently: ‘I love you. You did the best you could today, and even if you didn’t accomplish all you had planned, I love you anyway.”
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. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.”-Julia Cameron
“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.” —Grenville Kleiser
“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.” – Pythagoras
The next time something goes “wrong,” remind yourself that focusing on something that you’re grateful for is a perfectly painless and side-effects free way to feel better immediately. MK Mueller
Going through anxiety or depression or any other psychological condition doesn’t make you unlovable – it makes you human. Seth J. Gillihan
Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles. – Rob Delaney
No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever. The storm is just passing over. Iyanla Vanzant
“My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present.”-Steve Goodier
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” —Richard Bach
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” ― John Keats
When you lose everything, you get depressed if you don’t step back and start appreciating what you do have. -Paul and Tracey McManus
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn’t given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it. – Albert Ellis
Inspirational Quotes For Depression Sufferers
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
Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That’s applicable to any kind of depression. – Judy Collins
“A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl.”-Stephan Hoeller
“A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.” —Joyce Meyer
“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 —Goldie Hawn
When you are feeling depressed or down, focus on many of the little things that we all take for granted. The ability to walk, to see, to hear, and even to talk are all things we take for granted. -Phillip Crone
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. Haruki Murakami
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them we will understand why they were there. Paulo Coelho
“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
Meditation is the only answer to all the questions of man. It may be frustration, it may be depression, it may be sadness, it may be meaninglessness, it may be anguish: The problems may be many but the answer is one. Meditation is the answer. -Osho
Mindfulness is not about what arises. It is about how we are when something arises — how much presence, balance, compassion are we bringing forth in relation to that anxiety or rage or whatever is causing us pain. -Sharon Salzberg
Gratitude breeds optimism, enthusiasm, resilience, happiness, and overall satisfaction which can decrease anxiety and depression. -Beth Bunchman
The key to you being able to recover from depression is to set yourself a few simple goals that you can slowly build upon. Also it is important that you take things one day at a time and whenever you achieve a particular goal you have set yourself then reward yourself for doing so. -Heather Rose
“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
Encouraging Quotes For The Depressed
The deepest fear we have, ‘the fear beneath all fears,’ is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It’s this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life. – Tullian Tchividjian
I’m happy, I would say that I’m one of the happiest people I know but I’ve certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about. – Richard Marx
You are strong. You are beautiful. You are resilient. You are loved. You are capable. You are not weak. You are not defected. You are not weird. You are not a lost cause. You are not different.
“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.”-Martin Luther King
“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
“Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.” ― Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
Surround yourself with loving, caring, happy people and get rid of the negative people that drag you down.-Heather Rose
“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
We cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever. We must stand up and move on to the next action. Haruki Murakami
You need to know that part of being strong and tough is having the courage to ask for help when you need it. You must not silently suffer. You are all in this together. And, if I may speak personally, we are all in this together because asking for help was one of the best decisions that I have ever made. You will be continually amazed how life changes for the better. -Prince Harry
“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
“The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It’s never outside.” – Eckhart Tolle
Un-wellness (anxiety, depression) is not a signal that you are permanently broken. It is a temporary veiling of your natural wellbeing. -John Crawford
“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, not just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.” — Carl Sandburg
“When you’re depressed, the whole body is depressed, and it translates to the cellular level. The first objective is to get your energy up, and you can do it through play. It’s one of the most powerful ways of breaking up hopelessness and bringing energy into the situation.” O. Carl Simonton