120 Depression Quotes That Help You Win Over It

Depression seems such a horrible concept until we ourselves fall prey to it. The failing of relationships and stress from work escalates the problem. Any kind of mental trauma and the person’s entire life seems to go into an abyss of despair. Believe it or not Depression becomes a huge problem when we have to deal with it alone. Whether you yourself are facing the problem or a close friend or family member it is better to deal with it before it aggravates.

That is why we decided to do something about the dreaded Depression word. Here are some inspirational depression quotes that would boost your morale. There is no need to assume that the world is coming to an end. Every problem has a solution and feeling sad about it is only going to escalate it.

Are you depressed? Are you sad? Do you want to loose that sinking feeling in your heart? Read these depression quotes that would help you overcome all that and more.

Uplifting Depression Quotes

1. “Depression exist without you knowing it, even denying it. It is not an illusion. You don’t even know you’re in it. It takes a while before you realize it.”

2. “Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.” – John Green

3. “Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.” – Siri Hustvedt

4. “She was drowning, but nobody saw her struggle.”

5. “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.

6. “Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they were.”

7. “At heart, I have always been a coper, I’ve mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I’ve ever stored up my deep depressive episodes for the weeks off when there was time to have an abbreviated version of a complete breakdown.”

8. “Are you okay?” always the same question. “I’m fine.” always the same lie.

Overcoming Depression Quotes

9. “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

10. “I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment, and sorrow, just to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair; I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, to experience grace.” – Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

11. “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

12. “When all these people surround you, 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 alone.” – Fiona Apple

13. “I’ll never forget how depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”― Henry Rollins

14. “Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.” – Pythagoras

15. “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

16. “The worst kind of pain is when you’re smiling just to stop the tears for falling.”

17. “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

18. “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

19. “The only thing more exhausting than being depressed is pretending that you’re not.”

20. “If you desire to heal, let yourself fall ill, let yourself fall ill.” – Jalaluddin Rumi

21. Depression isn’t always dark rooms and crying endlessly. Sometimes its getting up, going to work and smiling and laughing all day and then coming home to sit quietly doing little to nothing until its time to go to bed.

Sadness And Depression Quotes

22. “Depression isn’t just a bit sad. It’s feeling nothing. It does not want to be alive anymore.”

23. “People think depression is sadness, crying, or dressing in black. But people are wrong. Depression is a constant feeling of being numb. You wake up in the morning to go back to bed again.”

24. “I am bent, but not broken. I am scared, 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.”

25. “It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there because it’s not sadness.”

26. “Depression has nothing to do with having a bad day or being sad.”

27. “Sometimes I’m sad and tired and miserable for no reason at all.”

28. “Anyone who has been that sad can tell you that there’s nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.”

29. “I can’t describe what I’m feeling. I’m not happy, and I know that. But I’m also not exactly sad either. I’m just caught right in between all these emotions, and I feel so empty.”

30. “I am sad all the time, and the sadness is so heavy that I can’t get away from it.”

31. “Depression makes you isolated. It’s tough to think of other people when you’re wrapped in a prickly blanket of sadness, and all you can think about is your Pain.”

32. “I can’t describe what I’m feeling. I’m not happy, and I know that. But I’m also not exactly sad either. I’m just caught right in between all these emotions, and I feel so empty.”

33. “I didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s 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

34. “I’m so broken that I can feel it. I mean, physically feel it. This is so much more than being sad now. This is affecting my whole body.”

35. “There’s nothing more depressing than having it all and still feeling sad.”

36. “I’m not sure if I’m depressed. I mean, I’m not sad, but I’m not exactly happy either. I can laugh and joke and smile during the day, but sometimes when I’m alone at night, I forget how to feel.”

37. “I’m hurt, and I’m heartbroken, and I’m sad, and I’m depressed, and I have been crying, but I don’t want to let it ruin my life.”

38. “People think depression is sadness. People think depression is crying. People think depression is dressing in black. But people are wrong. Depression is a constant feeling of being numb. Being numb to emotions, being numb to life. You wake up in the morning to go back to bed again.”

39. “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

40. “I’m not sure if I’m depressed. I mean, I’m not sad, but I’m not exactly happy either. I can laugh and joke and smile during the day, but sometimes when I’m alone at night, I forget how to feel.”

41. “Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.” – Dick Cavett

42. “People don’t die from suicide; they die from sadness.”

43. “The worst kind of sad is not able to explain why.”
44. “Real depression is when you stop loving the things you love.”

Short Depression Quotes

45. “My head is a very dark place.”

46. “I am not living. I am surviving.”

47. “It hurts, but it’s ok… I’m used to it.”

48. “My silence is just another word for my pain.”

49. “Depression, suffering, and anger are all part of being human.” – Janet Fitch

50. “To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins.” – Patti Stanger

51. “I feel lost inside of myself.”

52. “Depression and I are old friends, but I do not court his company.”

53. “I’m exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel.”

54. “Depressions may bring people closer to the family but so do funerals.”

55. “To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy.”

56. “Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.” – Philip K. Dick

57. “I feel like I bother people just by being alive.”

58. “I’m exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel.”

59. “I want to be happy, but something inside me screams that I do not deserve it.”

60. Don’t let anyone tell you how to grieve your loss. This journey, while hard, is yours alone.

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Laugh it Loud Depression Quotes

61. “You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be for having cancer or cardiovascular disease or a car accident.”

62. “Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.” – Ronald Reagan

63“Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent.” – Elizabeth Wentzel

64 “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

65. “Depression is not a sign of weakness. It means you’ve been strong for far too long.”

66. “Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.”

67. “Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.” – Miriam Toews

68. “I want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too.” – Laurie Halse Anderson

69. “It’s not always the tears that measure the Pain. Sometimes it’s the smile we fake.”

70. “It all starts with not wanting to get out of bed, that’s how you know you’re getting bad again.”

71. “Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.” – Dodie Smith

72. “Sometimes when I say “I’m okay,” I want someone to look me in the eyes, and say, “I know you’re not.”

Motivational Depression Quotes

74. “No one realizes how strong someone with depression has to be just to do daily stuff like shower, brush hair, or get out of bed.”

73. “As a person who suffers from depression, there are days when the enormity of it, feels like it defines you. But remember you are so much more than an illness. Don’t give up on yourself. Be kind be well.” – Bob Morley

75. “She hurts, and she cries. But you can’t see the depression in her eyes. Because she smiles…”

76. “I’m the type of girl who smiles to make everyone’s day. Even though I’m dying on the inside.”

77. “I need one of those long hugs where you kinda forget whatever else is happening around you for a minute.”

78. “It’s brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.” – Nick Hornby
79. “When depression takes over, and I can’t push through it, I have to close my door and shut the world out. It’s the only way I know how to survive.”

80. “When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch, it does not mean she is rejecting you. Rather she is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which she believes is the essence of her being and which she believes can injure you.”

81 “But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience, etc.” – Bob Geldof

82. “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

83. “The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my silence.”

84. “No matter how bad things are right now. No matter how stuck you feel. No matter how many days you’ve spent crying and wishing, things were different. No matter how hopeless and depressed you feel. I promise you that you won’t feel this way forever. Keep going.”

85. WHY CAN’T YOU SEE THAT I’M LYING. I AM NOT OKAY, I HAVE NEVER BEEN OKAY.

Life With Depression Quotes

86. “I define depression as a comparison of your current reality to a fantasy about how you wish your life would be.”

87. “Depression cannot be explained, it’s impossible, even if two people with depression come together to talk about it. No one knows how to explain it properly but, if you get it you’ll know what it is straight away, it changes your whole perspective on life & in a way in the long run depression can sometimes be a good thing.”

88. “And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving until I didn’t have to anymore.” – Anne Lamott

89. “Depression isn’t about, ‘Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other,’ it’s like having the worst flu all day that you can’t kick.” – Robbie Williams

90. “Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all, you don’t know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going?

91. “I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I’m so depressed, or life is terrible.” – Tony Curtis

92. “That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.” – Elizabeth Wurtzel

93. “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

94. “I have had issues with depression all my life, and it’s probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often – and this is quite common with comics – a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.” – Jack Dee

95. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” – Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation

96. “If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking.” – Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

97. “It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitably lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. This act has been encouraged for centuries and is accepted even now as an important reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your mind.” – Emilie Autumn

98. “My life is just one constant battle between wanting to be alone, but not wanting to be lonely.”

99. “A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life’s gas-pipe with a lighted candle.” – P.G. Wodehouse

100. “Depressed people often stick pins into their life rafts.”

Love And Depression Quotes

101. “No amount of sleep can cure the depression I feel for you are no longer near.”

102.“True love is knowing that you have given your all for the person and all you can do is think of the great memories spent while forgetting the hard times and forgiving him for breaking your heart.”

103. “Some people will leave you at one point or another, but that is definitely not the end of your story. This is just the end of their part in your life story.”

104. “Nothing is even more depressing than the fact that you almost have it all, yet you still feel so empty deep within you.”

105. “Sometimes, no matter how you tried your best to forget your past, there are instances where the past will keep on coming back and will always give you something that will remind you about the pain that goes with it.”

106. “We consider rain as problems in life. And sometimes, these problems just keep on coming back to us.”

107. “What you are seeing now is not what it always is. It is just like Pain. It might not seem visible, however, deep inside, it is just so much to take.”

108. “The one thing that’s worse than being hated is to be ignored by someone you love.”

109. 1“Sometimes, in the midst of heartbreak, you just choose to keep the pain with you because you do not want people to judge you or humiliate you for what you are going through.”

110. “I am willing to wait for you until the day I can forget you or until the day you realize that you want me back into your life.”

111. “The only thing that stands between happiness and me is reality.”

112. “Pretending that you are okay after someone broke your heart is also one way of showing people that you are strong enough despite the things that tears you apart.”

113. “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

114. “Everything is a battle and every breath is war. Without you, I don’t think I will ever win in all these.”

115. “Some of the most painful scars are the ones that cannot be seen.”

116. “I am so broken that I can feel it. I mean it and I can physically feel it. This is so much more than feeling sad at this point in my life. I’m afraid that it’s already affecting my whole body and this is all because you left me.”

117. “There is nothing more depressing than seeing the one you love happy with someone else and you are no longer part of his life.”

118. “At some point in your life, you will realize that some people could stay in your heart but never in your life”

119. “There are instances when the only thing that can make you very happy happens only in your dreams and will not actually happen in reality.”

120. “Missing someone is your heart’s way of reminding you that you still love the person who is the reason of your suffering and depression.”

Summing Up

Being depressed can hamper your overall existence. Hopefully after reading the above quotes your mood is uplifted and the smile is back. Remember these negative thoughts can conquer you only if you let them do so. Struggling with depression might stop you from living a satisfied life. Chuck the negativity today and take a deep breath. One day all this will be over and your life would be normal. Trust us…..