These depression quotes are comforting and heartwarming to motivate sad people to manage their feelings better! These depression quotes are just a reminder that people struggling with sadness or depression are not alone.
Fighting against depression is never easy. And, because of the social taboo attached to depression, many are left with no choice but to struggle in silence. This post captures the motivational depression quotes by people battling depression themselves to make you feel less alone. We hope these powerful depression quotes would motivate you to fight your struggle and win over sad feelings. And, we also hope these depression quotes will inspire people to offer their support to the sufferers rather than making fun of their struggle.
Best Depression Quotes For Sad People To Cope With Their Feelings
1. “I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you’re not alone.” – Dwayne Johnson
2. “And something inside me just… broke…That’s the only way I could describe it.” – Ranata Suzuki
3. “You look happy, but you don’t feel happy. That’s what depression does to you.” – Anonymous
4. “Sad hurts. But it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.” – J.K. Rowling
5. “You’re not a bad person for the ways you tried to kill your sadness.” – Anonymous
6. “I don’t want to do anything. I don’t even want to start this day because then I’ll just be expected to finish it.” – Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
7.“I wanted to write down exactly what I felt but somehow the paper stayed empty & I could not have described it any better.” – WTM
8. “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
9. “People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, and their families feel a sense of shame about it, which doesn’t help. One needs support and understanding. I am now working on an initiative to create awareness about anxiety and depression and help people.” – Deepika Padukone
10. “You try to think of someone you’re mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your head: EVERYONE” – Ellen Hopkins
11. “Whenever I have a few good months, I think I’ve gotten over the worst of my depression. But, then it silently returns. This isn’t a battle I asked to fight. I’m tired of knowing it’s always coming back.” – Anonymous
12. “The worst type of crying wasn’t the kind everyone could see–the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it.” – Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits
13. “It feels like everyone else is moving on with their lives while I am stuck here, in this hole that I can’t climb out of.” – Keary Taylor
14. “Some friends don’t understand this. They don’t understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you’re wonderful just the way you are. They don’t understand that I can’t remember anyone ever saying that to me. 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.”- Prozac Nation
15. “It’s my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.” – All the Bright Places
16. “Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It’s always there though.” – Jeffrey Eugenides
17. “I’ve got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts — you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn’t do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.” – Dying Bites
18. “Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”-
19. “I feel so disconnected from the world, and I feel like no one even notices me or cares about me anymore.” – Jordon Hoke
20. “You’re like a grey sky. You’re beautiful, even though you don’t want to be.” ― My Heart and Other Black Holes
21. “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
22. You will feel better than this. You just keep living until you are alive again. – Call the midwife
23. “Depression is melancholy minus its charms.” – Illness as Metaphor
24. “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, Cloud Atlas
25. “It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there because it’s not sadness.” – J.K. Rowling
26. “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
27. “I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?” – Billie Eilish
28. “I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear.” – Sharon E. Rainey
29. “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
30. “A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you’re in a room full of a million people.” – Lilly Singh
31. “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.’”- C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
32. “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.” — Anonymous
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33. “Depression is being colorblind & constantly told how colorful the world is.” – Atticus
34. “I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”- Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins
35. “I have depression. But I prefer to say, ‘I battle’ depression instead of ‘I suffer’ with it. Because depression hits, but I hit back. Battle on.” – Anonymous
36. “Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.” – Janet Fitch
37. “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, The Bean Trees
38. “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
39. “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
40.“I hide all my scars with an “I’m fine.” – Anonymous
41. “You smile, but you wanna cry. You talk, but you wanna be quiet. You pretend like you’re happy but you aren’t.” – Anonymous
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42.“When people don’t know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.” – Marion Cotillard
43.“I wanted to talk about it. I wanted to scream. I wanted to shout. But all I could was whisper –“I’m fine.” – Anonymous
44. “It all starts with not wanting to get out of bed, that’s how you know you’re getting bad again.” – Anonymous
45. “Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.” ― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
46. “It felt like this was never going to end. The world wasn’t going to stop crashing down until there was nothing left of me but dust.” – Anonymous
47. “Just because you think you’re worthless doesn’t make it true.” – Anonymous
48. “When you’re depressed you don’t control your thoughts, your thoughts control you. I wish people understood that.” – Anonymous
49.“I miss me. The old me. The happy me. The bright me. The smiling me. The laughing me. The gone me.” – Anonymous
50. “Today my forest is dark. The trees are sad and all the butterflies have broken wings.” – Anonymous
51. “I need one of those long hugs where you kinda forget whatever else is happening around you for minute.” – Marilyn Monroe
52. “When you suffer depression – I’m tired – means a permanent state of exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix.”
53. “Nobody ever tells you the emptiness weighs the most.”
We hope these depression quotes will give you the strength and motivation to battle against your sad & lonely feelings. Please don’t shy away from seeking professional help to win this battle against depression. In case you know of someone who is battling a similar struggle, please share these depression quotes to help them cope with their sad feelings better.
