Depression Quotes and Sayings

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People think depression is sadness. People think depression is crying. People think depression is dressing in black. But people are wrong. Depression is the constant feeling of being numb. Being numb to emotions, being numb to lie. You wake up in the morning just to go back to bed again. Days aren’t really days; they are just annoying obstacles that need to be faced. And how do you face them? Through medication, through drinking, through smoking, through drugs, through cutting. When you’re depressed, you grasp on to anything that can get through the day. That’s what depression is, not sadness or tears, it’s the overwhelming sense of numbness and the desire for anything that can help you make it from one day to the next.

I’m tired of trying, sick of crying, I know I’ve been smiling, but inside I’m dying.

 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

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. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.     

J.K. Rowling

Depression is anger without enthusiasm     

Anon

Jeffrey Eugenides

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.     

Tom Robbins

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

Andrew Solomon

Depression is not only an experience in the mind; it is also an affliction of the body. There is a lack of energy, a painful heaviness; sadness and a grief that permeate to our marrow.

Philip Martin

If depression is creeping up and must be faced, learn something about the nature of the beast: You may escape without a mauling.

Dr. R. W. Shepherd

Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it’s not.    

Tom Bosley

Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.     

Anne Sexton

Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action.

Gloria Anzaldua

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn’t given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.     

Albert Ellis

Depression is only reached the instant your mind rejects the most basic of instincts – the need to survive at all costs.

Demarcole

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.      

Dorothy Rowe

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.      

James Hillman

Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat – it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.

Andrew Solomon

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Rollo May

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.     

Joyce Meyer

Every time you feel depressed about something, try to identify a corresponding negative thought you had just prior to and during the depression. Because these thoughts have actually created your bad mood, by learning to restructure them, you can change your mood.     

David D. Burns

During depression the world disappears … because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?     

KATE MILLETT

My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love.     

Soren Kierkegaard

Depression has been labelled the common cold of psychopathology. This comparison is unfortunate, for it conveys the impression of a frequent but mild complaint. In reality … depression is not only the most frequent mental health problem, but is among the most serious. 

PAUL GILBERT

Depression is a choice.

A.B. CURTISS

Something crucial about depression … The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.     

Jeffrey Eugenides

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

Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.     

Matt Lucas

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one’s taking.

Doug Coupland

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.      

Judith Guest

To some degree depression is a function of unconscious anger. Pay attention to your angry feelings. Don’t feel guilty about them.      

Steve Hovland

This is my depressed stance. When you’re depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you’ll start to feel better. If you’re going to get any joy out of being depressed, you’ve got to stand like this.      

Charles Schulz

When you are depressed, life is too long.

Often the people with the strongest hearts carry the heaviest ones.

How did I go from that little 5 year old, always happy & always laughing, to…this?

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.

 
 Depression is like drowning. Except you can see everyone else around you breathing.
 Depression is darkness filling your heart, surrounding your soul.

Everything takes so much energy.
People around you don’t understand, you’re doing the best you can
Responsibilities overwhelm, expectations you can’t meet weigh heavily,
Sorrow fills you until there is no room for anything else.
Strength to fight, to find joy and love, slowly seeps from your soul.
Endless days without hope loom before you, enveloping you in the darkness.

 

Depression is hard to explain. But I’ll try anyway. You see. It’s like a disease. It tears you a part. The activities you loved doing like video games, sports, watch youtubers, designing things, draw. It doesn’t matter. You can’t find any joy in it anymore. You don’t smile much because there isn’t a reason to you think. It doesn’t matter how good you have it. Depression makes everything worthless and hopeless. It can make you do many things. Some people are cured from the disease, to others it can be lethal. It’s sad isn’t it?

Im hurt, and I’m heartbroken, and I’m sad, and I’m depressed, and ive been crying, but I dont wanna let it ruin my life.

Words unspoken. Let me tell you this: my life hasn’t been easy, no life is. I was bullied when I was younger, told I wasn’t going to succeed in life by teachers, became the thing I hated most, a bully.

I’ve been struggling with depression since I was six. Attempted suicide three times. Twice by cutting my wrist but my sister was there to stop me. The third time I laid on a busy street waiting to get ran over but when it almost happen when I thought my suffering was going to end, my two best friends came in and saved me. Made me promise to never do that again. I was an angry child and took it out on my friends.

I hated coming home because my parents were always arguing. Yelling nonsense, they finally got a divorce. But I felt betrayed, I felt abandoned, I felt lonely. Every relationship I ever had was a failure because I couldn’t commit. I felt that people were just going to end up leaving me as my father did to me. It wasn’t until later on when I had gone back to my faith in God that things got better. Not saying I am happy but I do have my moments. (Thank you for reading).

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

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.
– Elizabeth Gilbert

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. 

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