Memorable Depression Quotes

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"You are stronger than you think, braver than you believe, and smarter than you know."
Unknown
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
Louisa May Alcott
"The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."
Charles Dickens
"There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't."
John Green
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."
Walt Whitman
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
Mark Twain
"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go, they merely determine where you start."
Nido Qubein
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"In the middle of winter, I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer."
Albert Camus
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas A. Edison
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
Mahatma Gandhi
"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated."
Maya Angelou
"Out of difficulties grow miracles."
Jean de La Bruyère
"Don't let the darkness swallow you. You are the light that will prevail."
Unknown
"Do not lose heart, for in your faith you will find the strength to overcome."
Unknown
"You have been assigned this mountain to show others it can be moved."
Unknown
"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths."
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'"
Mary Anne Radmacher
"The pain of this life is a low, aching hum, and I cannot shake it. I'm lost in my own darkness."
Lang Leav
"Depression is living in a body that fights to survive with a mind that tries to die."
Unknown
"It's so difficult to describe depression to someone who's never been there because it's not just sadness."
J.K. Rowling
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"Depression is the overwhelming sense of numbness and the desire for something that you can't quite put your finger on."
Unknown
"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."
J.K. Rowling
"Depression is like a heaviness that you can't ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes difficult to do."
Unknown
"Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer."
Dorothy Rowe
"It's so difficult to talk about depression. It's almost impossible to understand, and it's impossible to articulate."
Fiona Apple
"Depression is the inability to construct a future."
Rollo May
"The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy."
Thomas Bulfinch
"Depression is the inability to see any future."
Martha Beck
"The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved."
Mother Teresa
"Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is."
Atticus
"You look happy, but you don’t feel happy. That’s what depression does to you."
Unknown
"Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind."
Jeffrey Eugenides
"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 recognizable disease just to make it simple for me and also for them."
Elizabeth Wurtzel
"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
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"You are not a bad person for the ways you tried to kill your sadness."
Unknown
"It is a sore point with me that I am not a genius. I am merely a talented man."
Salvador Dali
"Depression is feeling like you're lost something but having no clue when or where you last had it. Then one day you realize what you lost is yourself."
Unknown
"Depression is being scared of the future, and having no desire to live in the present."
Unknown
"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also harder to bear."
C.S. Lewis
"I'm not afraid of the real stuff like dying. I'm just scared of the dark stuff in my mind."
Fiona Apple
"You don't have to be positive all the time. It's perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared, or anxious. Having feelings doesn't make you a negative person. It makes you human."
Lori Deschene
"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 only thing more exhausting than being depressed is pretending that you're not."
Unknown
"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship."
Louisa May Alcott
"You say you're 'depressed' – all I see is strength. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It means you're human."
David Mitchell
"I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it feels like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anybody else to feel like that."
Robin Williams
"She didn't know who would leave or stay, so she pushed them all away. It was better that way."
Unknown
"I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good."
Andrew Solomon
"The broken will always be able to love harder than most. Once you've been in the dark, you learn to appreciate everything that shines."
Unknown
"Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it."
Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."
Jordan Belfort
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
Vincent Van Gogh
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Nelson Mandela
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
Winston Churchill
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."
Nido Qubein
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
Henry Ford
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
Marcus Aurelius
"The best way out is always through."
Robert Frost
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
Wayne Gretzky
"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."
Maya Angelou
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Steve Jobs
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
George Eliot
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
Mark Twain
"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."
John Green
"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
"You are stronger than you seem, braver than you believe, and smarter than you think."
A.A. Milne
"You don't have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you."
Dan Millman
"If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken."
Selena Gomez
"Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect, but that you have looked beyond its imperfections."
Bob Marley
"I start to think, and then I sink into the paper like I was ink."
Sylvia Plath
"Wear your tragedies as armor, not shackles."
Anonymous
"No one is perfect - that's why pencils have erasers."
Wolfgang Riebe
"You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it."
Unknown
"Fall down seven times, stand up eight."
Japanese Proverb
"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."
Victor Hugo
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
Khalil Gibran
"You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour."
Zen Proverb
"I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being."
Hafiz
"In the end, all we can do is promise to love each other with everything we've got. Because love is the best thing we do."
Ted Mosby
"You say you're 'depressed', all I see is a brave young lady struggling with life."
Dodie Clark
"The wound is the place where the light enters you."
Rumi
"It's okay not to be okay as long as you are not giving up."
Karen Salmansohn
"Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all, it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly."
Hazrat Ali
"You are not alone in this. I promise."
Unknown
"If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong."
Masaru Emoto
"If you stumble, make it part of the dance."
Unknown
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Courage, dear heart."
C.S. Lewis
"Depression is a flaw in chemistry, not character."
Unknown
"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
"I have depression. But I prefer to say 'I battle' depression instead of 'I suffer' with it. Because suffering implies that I'm allowing it to beat me, when my reality is I'm fighting it every step of the way."
Anonymous
"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
"That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end."
Elizabeth Wurtzel
"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
"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 was dreading waking up."
Ned Vizzini
"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
"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, you are sure to get over it. Depression is like cancer."
Barbara Kingsolver
"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
"Perhaps my problem wasn’t the environment, but me. Maybe I was the problem."
Jasmine Warga
"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 anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone."
Fiona Apple
"Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come. Remember everything you have faced, all the battles you have won, and all the fears you have overcome."
Unknown
"Mental health… is not a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going."
Noam Shpancer
"I’m fine’ is something people say when they aren’t."
Mélina Marchetta
"If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking."
Elizabeth Wurtzel
"What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation."
Glenn Close
"I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colors and shades I knew existed."
Katie Hurley
"A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you’re in a room full of a million people."
Lilly Singh
"There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds."
Laurell K. Hamilton
"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed."
Ernest Hemingway
"You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared and anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a ‘negative person.’ It makes you human."
Jodi Aman
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