Depression is the most common mental health problem. Depression is a serious illness and everyone needs to have some understanding of it whether you’re suffering from depression, or have a friend or loved one suffering from it, or whether you’re just hearing of it. The secret to handling this illness lies in the early diagnosis of it. When you can identify its symptoms in time, and seek out the treatment you can easily beat it. Depression quotes are an eye opener, these depression quotes are deep and informative, they will teach you the meaning of depression better.
35 Depression Quotes
- “A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.” Charlotte Brontë
- “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 heavyweight 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
- “Become aware of yourself. Everything will come to you, Chinmay when you are in that most wonderful place on earth, the center of your being. If you learn just one thing from this book, let it be that once you are aware of yourself, depression cannot hold you back any more than a tiger can be trapped in a spider’s web.” Indu Muralidharan
- “Depression is focusing on yourself; on your troubles and what is not right. You can’t be depressed if you are focusing on others. It’s impossible.” Elizabeth Bourgeret
- “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colors and shades I knew existed.” Katie McGarry
- “If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.” Lao Tzu
- “I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me. ” Elizabeth Wurtzel
- “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
- “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
- “It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.” K. Chesterton
- “No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.” Ursula K. LeBrontë
- “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
- “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.” S. Lewis
- “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
- “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
- “The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one’s sympathy the gloom of somebody else.” Arnold Bennett
- “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
- “There are times when explanations, no matter how reasonable, just don’t seem to help.” Fred Rogers
- “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” Laurell K. Hamilton
- “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
- “There is no person in this whole world who is a mistake, no matter how different that person may seem.” Fred Rogers
- “There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,–when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.” Kate Chopin
- “Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.” Steve Maraboli
- “What they don’t tell you about depression is that sometimes it feels a lot less like sadness and a lot more like the emotional equivalent of watching paint dry.” Alexis
- “When people don’t know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.” Marion Cotillard
- “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
- “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
- “Whether an illness affects your heart, your arm, or your brain, it’s still an illness, and there shouldn’t be any distinction. We would never tell someone with a broken leg that they should stop wallowing and get it together. We don’t consider taking medication for an ear infection something to be ashamed of. We shouldn’t treat mental health conditions any differently. Instead, we should make it clear that getting help isn’t a sign of weakness – it’s a sign of strength – and we should ensure that people can get the treatment they need.” Michelle Obama
- “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
- “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
- “You’re like a grey sky. You’re beautiful, even though you don’t want to be.” Jasmine Warga
