Below you’ll find my favourite quotes about depression and overcoming depression, but really, you don’t need to be suffering from severe depression to appreciate them. We all feel depressed from time to time so could all use the wisdom of these quotes about overcoming depression naturally. I hope these quotes are a help for depression. Remember to seek out online depression support if you need it!
Quotes About Depression and Overcoming Depression Quotes by Famous People
“If others were aware of how hard I had to work to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem all that wonderful at all.” Michelangelo
“Knowing others is intelligence; but to know yourself is true wisdom. Mastering other people is strength; but to master yourself is true power.” Lao-tzu
“The power of will is the art of swapping one habit for another.” Michael Garofalo
“The tornado creates its power from a calm centre. So too does a person.” Norman Vincent Peale
Begin by doing this which is necessary; then do that which is possible; suddenly you will be doing the impossible. St. Francis of Assisi
“Why are you staying inside prison while the door is wide open? Pass outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live within the silence.” Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Take the beginning step in faith. You do not need to see the whole staircase, just take that first step.” Martin Luther King
Quotes About Depression and Overcoming Depression Quotes by Famous People
“Most of the truly important accomplishments in the world were accomplished by people who have continued to try when there seemed no hope at all.” Dale Carnegie
The Most Depressing Sad Quotes About Love — These Will Make You Feel Very Depressed!
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran
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Being in love is a lot like suffering from bipolar depression. One minute you’re on a high and buying flowers, the next your showing severe depression symptoms and needing medication for a broken heart.
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
― Nicholas Sparks
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
When the salesman said I needed life insurance for heart attacks in case of the worst, I thought he just wanted money. Turns out he was a psychic who knew my heart would soon break.
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
Paulo Coelho
“Its a trap”
Admiral Ackbar on Love
I’ve enrolled in an online art school. I figured, if I’m going to be feeling this much anguish and pain, I might as well turn it into beautiful art.
Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same
All At Once by the Fray
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
― C.S. Lewis
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. Lynda Barry Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. Elie Wiesel They do not love that do not show their love. William Shakespearesad quotes about love Embed this image:
Falling in love is awfully simple, but falling out of love is simply awful.
“Disappointment has a name, it’s heartbreak”
― John Mayer
To think that there are divorce lawyers, marriage counsellors and solicitors who actually profit off of this agony of separation is enough to make me vomit.
If it were supposed to feel good they wouldn’t call it a crush.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau sad quotes about love
If you’re gonna trample on my heart, please can you kill me instead of just leaving me here dying slowly?
“You’re an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry”
― Taylor Swift
Sad Quotes About Love from Famous People — WARNING: Will Make You Feel Very Depressed!
I’ve cried, and you’d think I’d be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
Conor Oberst
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Jackie Kennedy
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
Lord Chesterfield
I don’t need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt… doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
The word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung
Sad Quotes About Death
Sting
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
My father’s death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.
Brooke Shields
Sad Quotes About Death
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Thomas Fuller
William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
Clarence Darrow
Sad Quotes About Death
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
Jerome K. Jerome
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
William S. Burroughs
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Susie Bright
Sad Quotes About Death
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
I do believe that if you haven’t learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
Nana Mouskouri
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
David Gerrold
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
Euripides
Sad Quotes About Death
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
Gustave Flaubert
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain
Sad Quotes About Death
I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Here are the best sad depressing quotes with images from around the net. As always, feel free to share these sad depressing quotes and images by copying and pasting the code provided.
– living in overpopulated areas and taking in too much information (which could, for instance, include being on the inter net too much) are common causes of depression
– According to the World Health Organization, by 2020, depression will be most common form of illness
– Over 150 million people every year becomes disabled due to depression.
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Fact 6 – Researchers of the New-York University established that depression destroys nerve cells in the front part of the cerebral cortex, which is responsible for optimism.
– The American Psychiatrical Association comprised this list of the most depression-prone professions:
Baby-sitters, nannies, nurses and the unemployed (12.7%),
People working in public catering: waiters, cooks and barmen (10.3%),
Doctors, nurse and social workers (9.6%).
You’ll need a tissue ready to read these sad emotional quotes as they’ll leave you feeling depressed; severely depressed! Our special look at the best emotional quotes turns a little darker now as we look at the best sad emotional quotes ever.
Sad Emotional Quotes
John Greenleaf Whittier
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’
How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.
It’s sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it’s real funny.
Seth Green
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
Warren Spahn
Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
Joan D. Vinge
Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.
Kenny Rogers
I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn’t really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it.
Corbin Bleu
Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.
Here are the best ever very sad quotes on life and death. I hope you enjoy these very sad quotes on life and death.
Very Sad Quotes on Life and Death and Love
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Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable. Wizard of Oz
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.F. Scott Fitzgerald
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. Hannah Arendt sad quotes on life
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.F. Scott Fitzgerald sad quotes on life
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. Hannah Arendt
We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.-R.W. Dale
Oh, sweet sorrow, the time you borrow, will you be here when I wake up tomorrow? -Katherine Wolf
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) sad quotes on life
We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.-R.W. Dale
Oh, sweet sorrow, the time you borrow, will you be here when I wake up tomorrow? -Katherine Wolf
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948)
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome -Jimi Hendrix
Trending Sad Depressing Quotes
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Herman Hesse
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. Charles M. Schulz sad quotes on life
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Kahlil Gibran
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. -Winston Churchill sad quotes on life
Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.
The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. -Louis E. Boone
The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you. Anonymous
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. W. M. Lewis sad quotes on life
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.Javan
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’ John Greenleaf Whittier
“Your world is nothing more than all the tiny things you’ve left behind” – from Gran Torino – Clint Eastwood,Jamie Cullum, Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens
Real loss only occurs when you lose something that you love more than yourself. anonymous
The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy. -Jim Rohn sad quotes on life
Don’t you want to join us?” I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. No, I don’t,” I said. Franz Kafka
Hating people is like burning down your house to kill a rat -Henry Fosdick
How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness. -Jim Rohn
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children. Jimmy Carter
Here’s my pick of the most depressing quotes about life. Symptoms of severe depression will most likely result from reading these quotes. So, you’ve been warned.
Most Depressing quotes about life
“I feel so empty Yet I feel so much pain”
“Inside my skin, there is this space, It twists and turns, it bleeds and aches…”
My life has basically been one bout of severe depression after the next, only broken up here and there by periods of heavy treatment for depression, so you ask me if life is good? Honestly, go F**K yourself, life is awful.
*You can never fully understand what someone is going through, unless it has happened to you. (that is soooooo true)
There is a girl in my mirror and shes crying all night. I dont think there is anything I can do, to make her feel alright. — Most depressing quotes about life
There’s nothing I want more to take than the only thing that they won’t let me take… my life.
“Scars are stories, history written on the body,”
If I killed myself and reincarnation occurred, would my next life still suck just as much? That’s the question you gotta ask yourself.
When will people understand that words can cut as sharply as any blade, and that those cuts leave scars upon our souls?
One day, I’ll get out of bed and realize life isn’t so bad…Until that day comes, I’m staying in bed!
“There is no equivalent to the comfort of physical pain, and no remedy to its addiction.”
*We can only be happy if we first accept ourselves and our lives, and then realize that it’s ok to let the happiness come. Happiness can only come if we let it.
*It will NEVER seem as bad tomorrow. –Most depressing quotes about life
It aint me whos messed up its the rest of the world
Depressing quotes about life
Don’t base your decisions on the advice of people who don’t have to deal with the results.
“Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.”
“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”
Depressing quotes about life
No one can hurt you as much as yourself.
On the outside I looked like a smart, happy and talented teenager. On the inside I was wilted and dying.
“Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time you’ve got.”
I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle…I just wish he didn’t trust me so much!
Depressing quotes about life
It’s amazing how people tell you that they’ll always be there for you when you need them, but when you do need them most they are no where to be found. Then when they need someone you’re always there.
when you finally realize you don’t matter to someone you start to think if you matter to anyone —- Most depressing quotes about life
“I know what it’s like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can’t. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside”
“I may have been weak enough to make the cut, but I was strong enough to survive that day…”
Depressing quotes about life
“Always put yourself in others’ shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.”
“Perhaps if I had not so tightly clutched the rose, it’s thorns would not have pierced my flesh so deeply.”
Suicide is not a remedy.
The question is, whether suicide is the way out or the way in.
The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort; with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.
Depressing quotes about life
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
Depressing quotes about life
There’s supposed to be a light at the end of the tunnel, so where the hell is the end?
Don’t LOOK for the light at the end of the tunnel, go down there and light the goddamn flame yourself!!
What doesn’t kill me only makes me wish I was dead.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words are what will kill me.
Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside, it’ll tear you apart. – Most depressing quotes about life
“For the first heaven seemed insane, because heaven was to blame, for taking you away”
“I wake up and think dreams are real. I sleep so I don’t have to feel”
Depressing quotes about life
“I’m learning how to smile again, and it’s not that easy to do”
Cry as i may, these tears won’t wash you away
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. ~
And I don’t want the world to see me, cause I don’t think that they’d understand. When everything’s made to be b r o k e n, I just want you to know who I am
~It’s Hard to Look in the mirror these days when everyone has everything you’d rather be
know u have something to live for u try to kill what u have on the inside even If ur breaking down u know u can hide It with a smile
~Its funny, the things I want to tell u, I always manage to say so softly that u can never hear me
*Ever wonder how your life would be right now if even one small thing from your past changed?* -Most depressing quotes about life
Depressing quotes about life
Scars are souvenirs u never loose, the past is never far
“Always concentrate on how far you have come, rather than how far you have left to go. The difference in how easy it seems will amaze you.”
Depressing quotes about life
“Spiteful words hurt your feelings, but silence breaks your heart.”
~Tears are words the heart cannot say!~
*One smile can hide a thousand tears!*
Depressing quotes about life
*The most beautiful smile is one that struggles through the tears!*
“When you feel like nothing is there but pain and hurt and great despair, that is when we know we need to not give up, whatever it is we’re going through.”
“I want you to know, everyone’s got to face down the demons, maybe today. We can put the past away.”
*I wish you could comfort me and tell me everything’s OK but the truth is if you knew my pain, you wouldn’t know what to say. -Most depressing quotes about life
“I feel sometimes that nobody has held me down and forced me to cry or made me hug them, or got to the inside of me. It’s like I say ‘Oh, I’m fine,’ and I walk away. Nobody’s ever said ‘No, you’re not.’”
“If you don’t understand my silence, you won’t understand my words.”
“You spend all your time waiting for that second chance… for a break that will make it okay. There’s always some reason to feel not good enough, and it’s hard at the end of the day. I need some distraction…”
Depressing quotes about life
“Everyone wants to feel normal, but I don’t think anyone ever does.”
“I know what its like to want to die; how it hurts to smile; how you try to fit in but you can’t; how you hurt yourself on the outside; to try to kill the thing that’s in the inside.”
“I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.”
“People are always telling me to smile, like smiling is going to just take away all the hurt and all the pain…we’ll I’ve tried that. I’ve tried hiding my sorrows, and covering the sadness in smiles…and what I’ve learned is that when it hurts this much inside, your heart always has a way of showing it, no matter how many masks you wear.”
Depressing quotes about life
“Sometimes it’s better to be alone; no one can hurt you when you’re by yourself.” –Most depressing quotes about life
“How can you understand me when I don’t understand myself?”
“I wish I could walk up to everybody who went through the same thing as I did. I’d just tell them, it’s not your fault, it’s not your fault.”
“People want to believe you’re okay, so it’s easy to pretend you’re okay.”
“Sometimes its easier to pick up a blade and cut your arm than it is to resist, block out the pain and smile, because fake smiles hurt more than a razor could ever hurt to cut”
Having severe depression yet? No? Okay, here are more depression quotes. . .
Depressing quotes about life
“I need to talk but I don’t know what to say…I need to cry, but I don’t know how to let the tears flow…I want to live, but I don’t know if I have the courage to face another day…”
Don’t ever think that no one can see your true feelings in your eyes. They may not show it, but there is someone who knows.
Everything’s going downhill, I’m tired of being ignored, this thing is over because you’re not the same anymore.
It’s so hard to go on like everythings ok now when inside I still cry for yesterday.
“I love sleep. My life has this tendancy to fall apart when I’m awake”
Depressing quotes about life
“There was no reality to pain when it left one,Though while it held one fast all other realities faded.”
People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding. ~
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ~
Depressing quotes about life
“Hour by hour, these tears I cry, hour by hour the days pass by”
“When I didn’t need anyone, I needed you.”
“You asked me what was wrong, I smiled and said nothing, then you turned around and a tear came down and I whispered to myself…everything is.”
Depressing quotes about life
“I am not depressed everyday, Only on days that end in “y”
“You bleed just to know your alive.”
*Smiling is only a symptom of happiness and can be faked. Do not assume that everybody who smiles is happy.
*Nothing makes it all better again
Depressing quotes about life
‘where does the pain go when it stops hurting? because it never really goes away. it’s always close by. it always come back’ (also true)
“how can you answer someone when they ask “whats wrong?” when nothings right?”
Happiness is a choice that you make.”
Ya Look @ me and say how i am blessed, but noone sees the inside or my unhappiness. You only know a part not even a half, you dont see the tears behind my constant laugh
I don’t strive to be different… I just am
Depressing quotes about life
It aint me whos messed up its the rest of the world
The most difficult thing for me to do is to let people know what is going on with me. I have a habit of trying to have relationships with people all by myself.
You say everything that no one else says.. But I feel everything that you’re afraid to feel
Overcoming depression is as easy as firing a bullet. . . bang, and it’s gone.
“It’s supposed to be hard. If it weren’t hard, everybody would do it. The hard is what makes it great”
“I used to feel too…up until I died inside”
“We think there is always tomorrow, so why expose our feelings today? Why risk being vulnerable? Why take the chance? Because today what we love, what we feel, what is real, is what we have. Tomorrow it may all change”
*Tears from the heart, Tears from the soul, Tears from everywhere, They take control.*
“If you don’t understand my silence you won’t understand my words”
Depressing quotes about life
We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves
Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.
Most Depressing Quotes About Life | Warning: Will Leave You Needing Depression Treatment
