112 result(s) for Depression Quotes.
"You are stronger than you think, braver than you believe, and smarter than you know."
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
"The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."
"There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't."
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go, they merely determine where you start."
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"In the middle of winter, I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer."
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated."
"Out of difficulties grow miracles."
"Don't let the darkness swallow you. You are the light that will prevail."
"Do not lose heart, for in your faith you will find the strength to overcome."
"You have been assigned this mountain to show others it can be moved."
"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."
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'"
"The pain of this life is a low, aching hum, and I cannot shake it. I'm lost in my own darkness."
"Depression is living in a body that fights to survive with a mind that tries to die."
"It's so difficult to describe depression to someone who's never been there because it's not just sadness."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer."
"It's so difficult to talk about depression. It's almost impossible to understand, and it's impossible to articulate."
"Depression is the inability to construct a future."
"The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy."
"Depression is the inability to see any future."
"The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved."
"Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is."
"You look happy, but you don’t feel happy. That’s what depression does to you."
"Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind."
"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."
"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."
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"You are not a bad person for the ways you tried to kill your sadness."
"It is a sore point with me that I am not a genius. I am merely a talented man."
"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."
"Depression is being scared of the future, and having no desire to live in the present."
"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also harder to bear."
"I'm not afraid of the real stuff like dying. I'm just scared of the dark stuff in my mind."
"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."
"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."
"The only thing more exhausting than being depressed is pretending that you're not."
"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship."
"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."
"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."
"She didn't know who would leave or stay, so she pushed them all away. It was better that way."
"I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good."
"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."
"Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it."
"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
"The best way out is always through."
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."
"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."
"You are stronger than you seem, braver than you believe, and smarter than you think."
"You don't have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you."
"If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken."
"Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect, but that you have looked beyond its imperfections."
"I start to think, and then I sink into the paper like I was ink."
"Wear your tragedies as armor, not shackles."
"No one is perfect - that's why pencils have erasers."
"You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it."
"Fall down seven times, stand up eight."
"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
"You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour."
"I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being."
"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."
"You say you're 'depressed', all I see is a brave young lady struggling with life."
"The wound is the place where the light enters you."
"It's okay not to be okay as long as you are not giving up."
"Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all, it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly."
"You are not alone in this. I promise."
"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."
"If you stumble, make it part of the dance."
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
"Courage, dear heart."
"Depression is a flaw in chemistry, not character."
"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."
"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."
"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”."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Perhaps my problem wasn’t the environment, but me. Maybe I was the problem."
"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."
"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."
"Mental health… is not a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going."
"I’m fine’ is something people say when they aren’t."
"If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking."
"What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation."
"I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colors and shades I knew existed."
"A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you’re in a room full of a million people."
"There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds."
"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."
"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."
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