Depression characterizes in the subject a feeling of distrust and loss of interest in the environment and surrounding people and a decrease in motor activities. Depression can develop into feelings of self-punishment and, in the extreme, suicide. Depression is a disease and as such must be treated by contacting suitable specialists. Unfortunately, depression is not uncommon. The pain that leads to apathy and excessive sadness, far beyond the passing one, is experienced by more people than we believe and that, above all, we see.
Depression is a monster, it hides behind fake smiles but not perceptible as such and creeps into a body, emptying it, before it notices it. Below you will find phrases and quotes that will clarify what depression is and what it means to be depressed: their incisiveness and rawness have made them famous. Continue to read depression quotes and share it on social media or with friends who need suport.
Depression quotes
If depression were to be represented with an image, it could well be represented with a chasm. Depression is in fact like a black hole into which it sinks. A dark and deep hole that sucks all the energies and positive thoughts. The depressed person is faced with a state of profound psychic depression, characterized by melancholy and lack of confidence in himself and in the future. A person who feels sad and empty ends up falling down and feeling useless. Read down below these depression quotes if you need a motivation to get through tough times.
🔅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
🔅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
🔅I wish people could understand that the brain is the most important organ of our body. Just because you can’t see mental illness like you could see a broken bone, doesn’t mean it’s not as detrimental or devastating to a family or an individual.
Demi Lovato
🔅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
🔅You have to die a few times before you can really live.
Charles Bukowski
🔅Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
🔅Make peace with your broken pieces.
R.h. Sin
🔅Do not be numb. If you wish to heal your wounds; first learn to feel where they are.
A. Daniel
🔅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
🔅Sometimes I just think depression’s one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there’s so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.
Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story
🔅When you’re depressed you don’t control your thoughts, your thoughts control you. I wish people understood that.
Anonymous
🔅My darling, you hold so much sadness in your eyes, I can almost touch the scars of your soul and cry.
Alexandra Vasiliu
🔅My heart hides so many wounds that never bleed.
Alexandra Vasiliu
🔅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
🔅Having anxiety and depression is like being scared and tired at the same time. It’s the fear of failure, but no urge to be productive. It’s wanting friends, but hate socializing. It’s wanting to be alone, but not wanting to be lonely. It’s feeling everything at once then feeling paralyzingly numb.
Anonymous
🔅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
🔅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 life. You wake up in the morning just to go to bed again.
Anonymous
🔅I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy. Because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anybody else to feel like that.
Robin Williams
🔅I withdraw from people and places from time to time, a world that is filled with millions of mouths that talks too much but never have anything to say.
Kaitlin Foster
🔅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
🔅Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When “I’ is replaced by “we,” illness becomes wellness.
Shannon L. Alder
🔅You’re not a bad person for the ways you tried to kill your sadness.
Anonymous
🔅There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral’s Kiss
🔅We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive ones.
Brene Brown
🔅People in therapy are often in therapy to deal with the people in their lives who won’t go to therapy.
Unknown
🔅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
🔅They say “follow your heart” but if your heart is in a millon pieces which piece do you follow?
Unknown
🔅Depression is feeling like you’ve lost something but having no clue when or where you last had it. Then one day you realize what you lost is yourself.
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, The Problem of Pain
🔅Angry is just sad’s bodyguard.
Liza Palmer
🔅When it is darkest, we can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
🔅The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
🔅Depression, for me, has been a couple of different things – but the first time I felt it, I felt helpless, hopeless, and things I had never felt before. I lost myself and my will to live.
Ginger Zee
🔅I am lonely in places I didn’t even know existed inside me.
Nikita Gill
🔅Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.
Paulo Coelho
🔅What we don’t need in the midst of struggle is shame for being human.
Brene Brown
🔅She’s battling things her smile will never tell you about.
Jonny Ox
🔅I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you’re not alone.
Dwayne Johnson
🔅She wasn’t sad anymore, she was numb, and she knew somehow numb was worse.
Atticus
🔅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
🔅She has love in her words, pain in her silence.
Laura Jane
🔅People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong too long.
Johnny Depp
🔅Everyday is a second chance.
Anonymous
🔅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
🔅I don’t hate people. I just feel better when they aren’t around.
Charles Bukowski
🔅I am bent, but not broken. I am scarred, 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
🔅It’s such a fine line between feeling everything and nothing at all.
K. Tolnoe
🔅Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.
Atticus, Love Her Wild
🔅No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun.
Chinese Proverb
🔅Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart.
William C. Hannan
🔅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
🔅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
Quotes about depression
Psychic depression, a state characterized by distrust, dejection, loss of interest in the environment and in the main goals of life, decreased motor activities and often impaired organic functions. Depression is quite common in neurotic individuals (generally mild and transient forms); the most serious forms, clearly pathological, can develop dramatically to the point of suicide. But the word “depression” doesn’t just refer to a persistent type of mood; in fact, the term can be used to refer to an economic situation (the worst possible), or simply to indicate a geographical area (surface area lower than another). So if you want to share a quote about depression read down below and choose from our list of quotes about depression the best one to share.
🔹No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun.
Chinese Proverb
🔹Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
🔹You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have the right to be here.
Max Ehrmann
🔹Don’t cling to yesterday. It was beautiful, but it was yesterday.
Osho
🔹I was only able to start changing my life when I realized my depression was not a malfunction. It’s a signal. Your depression is a signal. It’s telling you something.
Johann Hair
🔹Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
Eckhart Tolle
🔹It’s not too late to recover. You are young, you are tough. You are adaptable. You can patch up your wounds, lift up your head and move on.
Haruki Murakami
🔹Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.
Kripalvanandji
🔹I tend to get pretty depressed and I have some issues with anxiety and things like that … For me, it’s more psychological. Exercise is a means of expelling those demons.
Ryan Reynolds
🔹Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John Keats
🔹In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
🔹Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
🔹It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Napoleon Hill
🔹No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Buddha
🔹I was born with a great awareness of my surroundings and other people … Sometimes that awareness is good, and sometimes I wish I wasn’t so sensitive.
Scarlett Johansson
🔹I disliked myself so intensely. It was just a mindset. I didn’t know how to love myself. I didn’t know how to love anybody.
Anne Hathaway
🔹The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Rumi
🔹Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
🔹Do not stumble on something behind you.
Seneca
🔹It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle
🔹Being an actress hasn’t made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.
Amy Adams
🔹When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.
George Harrison
🔹I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Rosa Parks
🔹You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.
Dan Millman
🔹You’re like a grey sky. You’re beautiful, even though you don’t want to be.
Jasmine Warga
🔹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
🔹Asking for help is the first step. You are more precious to this world than you’ll ever know.
Lili Reinhart
🔹A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley
🔹Even lost and alone, I kept moving forward. Even sacred and confused, I kept moving forward. In the end, that’s what you must do: keep moving forward.
Maxime Lagace
🔹Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Dodie Smith
🔹I understand your pain. Trust me, I do. I’ve seen people go from the darkest moments in their lives to living a happy, fulfilling life. You can do it too. I believe in you. You are not a burden. You will NEVER BE a burden.
Sophie Turner
🔹The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end, finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
Victor Hugo
🔹If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you’re a badass with a heart of an angel.
Keanu Reeves
🔹You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
James Allen
🔹When written in Chinese the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy
🔹A child’s mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support. No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm.
Kate Middleton
🔹I won’t let my pain turn my heart into something ugly. I will show you that surviving can be beautiful.
Christy Ann Martine
🔹Depression doesn’t take away your talents—it just makes them harder to find.
Lady Gaga
🔹Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not surrounded by assholes.
Sigmund Freud
🔹I tell myself, ‘You’ve been through so much, you’ve endured so much, time will allow me to heal, and soon this will be just another memory that made me the strong woman, athlete, and mother I am today.
Serena Williams
🔹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
🔹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 lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud.
Goldie Hawn
🔹We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbel
🔹We all have problems. But it’s not what happens to us, it’s the choices we make after.
Elizabeth Smart
🔹Somewhere there is a past you overflowing with so much pride looking at how far you’ve come.
Unknown
🔹It is okay to have depression, it is okay to have anxiety and it is okay to have an adjustment disorder. We need to improve the conversation. We all have mental health in the same way we all have physical health.
Prince Harry
🔹Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time.
Eckhart Tolle
🔹The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Sophocles
🔹What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Ziglar
🔹Promise me you will always remember. You are braver than you believe and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Winnie the Pooh
🔹We are always trying to build a bridge between ‘what is’ and ‘what should be’. And in that, there is contradiction and conflict.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
🔹We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.
Dr. Henry Link
🔹After every Olympics, I think I fell into a major state of depression, and after 2012 that was probably the hardest fall for me. I didn’t want to be in the sport anymore…a year and a half, two years after that…
Micheal Phelps
Heartbroken depression quotes
🔸From the second we are born we start dying. So this isn’t life, this is death.
🔸I used to care so much. I used to fight for this. I tried my hardest to hold on & keep you but you didn’t want this as much as I did. I didn’t lose you. Let’s be honest, you lost me.
🔸Losing you isn’t what hurt, it was knowing that losing me didn’t hurt you.
🔸Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.
🔸You are every image, yet I am homesick for you.
🔸True friends never hurt each other or cause each other to have pain, no matter what.
🔸The saddest part of life is saying goodbye to someone you wish to spend your life with.
🔸Love cannot pain, desire can.
🔸One-sided love. High expectations. Endless heartbreak.
🔸Where do broken hearts go?
🔸One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65 you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die. However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find—is they are not always with whom we spend our lives.
🔸I miss the time when I actually meant something to you.
🔸Behind my smile is a broken heart, behind my laugh I’m falling apart. Behind my eyes are tears at night, behind my body is a soul trying to fight.
🔸She apologized. Not because she was wrong. But she knew he was hurt deep inside.
🔸So here’s the thing with broken hearts. No matter how you try, the pieces never fit the way they did before.
🔸I know I’m not a hot girl. I will probably never turn u on, or take you to breathe away or impress your friends with the way I look. But I can make you laugh and make u feel wanted. And sometimes I can be cute but I just really wish that could be enough. Just once.
🔸You broke my heart. But I still love you with all the little pieces.
🔸You only miss the sun when it starts to snow, only know you love her when you let her go.
🔸Sometimes, the girl who is always there for everyone else, needs someone to be there for her.
🔸How scary it is to look at the one you love and realize that there are only two possible outcomes: forever or not.
🔸I’m the person who falls too fast, hurts too deep and, in the end, ends up alone far too often.
🔸I need a hug. No, actually, I need your hug.
🔸I wish there were a magical switch in my life that I could press to erase all the memories I have with you.
🔸We discover love we invent heartbreak.
🔸One day you’re going to wake up and notice that you should’ve tried. I was worth the fight.
🔸Somebody asked me if I knew you. A million memories flashed through my mind but I just smiled and said I used to.
🔸Dear tummy, I’m so sorry about the butterflies. It’s not my fault. It’s his.
🔸That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.
🔸This is the beginning of loving yourself. Welcome home.
🔸You put all this effort into one person you try so damn hard for them love you as much as you love them but the sick reality is they won’t ever love you. You won’t get the happy ending you’ll keep trying and just get hurt no matter how hard because you’ll always be the second choice.
🔸See that guy? Yeah, I like him but I’m pretty sure he likes her.
🔸Before I met you, I never knew what it was like to be able to look at someone and smile for no reason.
🔸Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart.
🔸Don’t expect too much, in the end, you will be disappointed.
Sad quotes about depression
There are moments in life when we find ourselves in situations that are difficult to manage … periods in which we see everything black and we cannot see a way out of this bad moment. Sad and depressed phrases are the only things we can write! Read down below and choose the best sad quotes about depression.
🔻You begin to forget what it means to live. You forget things, you forget that you used to feel all right, you forget what it means to feel alright. Because you feel like shit all the time, and you can’t remember what it was like before. People take the feeling of ‘full’ for granted.
Marya Hornbacher
🔻There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
Laurell K. Hamilton
🔻If we live our lives on the superficial level, life becomes depressing. But when we connect with each other from the heart, then that makes life beautiful and authentic.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
🔻Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can’t make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don’t get back on track somehow, I’m dead, that’s the sense I get. There isn’t a single strong emotion inside me.
Banana Yoshimoto
🔻I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
Ursula K. Le Guin
🔻If I can’t feel, if I can’t move, if I can’t think, and I can’t care. Then what conceivable point is there in living?
Kay Redfield Jamison
🔻Because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street cafe in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.
Sylvia Plath
🔻I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colors and shades I knew existed.
Katie McGarry
🔻Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside– remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
Charles Bukowski
🔻Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King Jr
🔻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
🔻Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.
Anne Sexton
🔻Moving on isn’t about not loving someone anymore and forgetting them. It’s about having the strength to say I still love you, but you’re not worth this pain.
Ritu Ghatourey
🔻The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.
Pete Wentz
🔻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
🔻There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.
John Green
🔻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
🔻You will never understand the hell I feel inside my head.
Priyanshu Singh
🔻Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
Corrie ten Boom
🔻And sometimes when you’re on, you’re really fucking on. And your friends, they sing along, and they love you. But the lows are so extreme that the good seems fucking cheap. And it teases you for weeks in its absence.
Rilo Kiley
🔻If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.
Rumi
🔻In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known—no wonder, then, that I return the love.
Soren Kierkegaard
🔻Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacher
🔻If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
Fred Rogers
🔻I am not a broken heart. I am not collarbones. Or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything, at any time. And I am not your fault.
Charlotte Eriksson
🔻Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.
Alan Cohen
🔻I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless, and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.
Robin Williams
🔻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
🔻The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
🔻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
🔻I don’t want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn. And nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong. Something so huge I can’t even see it. Something that’s drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid. Without worth. I might as well be dead.
Margaret Atwood
🔻Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart.
William C. Hannan
🔻I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
John Keats
🔻The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
🔻Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
🔻One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
Aristotle
🔻No matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger– something better, pushing right back.
Albert Camus
🔻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
🔻I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
Henry Rollins
🔻Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
Jacques Prevert
🔻When people don’t know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.
Marion Cotillard
🔻I felt exhausted, and worried, and friendless and hopeless and everything-else-less.
Philip Pullman
🔻Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general. And the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression’s actual essence. Which is an overwhelming estrangement for humanity.
Jonathan Franzen
🔻The thing about depression is that, if you’re not the one who’s actually suffering from it, there’s very little you can do to be proactive. If someone in your family is depressed, all you can really do is send them to a shrink, get them their meds, be gentle, and wait.
Sarah Silverman
🔻Don’t be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That’s only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.
Olga Korbut
🔻Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Christopher Morely
🔻Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.
Jodi Picoult
🔻Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
Postpartum depression quotes
😔I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.
Oprah
😔To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.
Sylvia Fraser
😔Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.
Linda Wooten
😔It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop.
Confucius
😔Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keep friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
Grenville Kleiser
😔It is okay to have depression, it is okay to have anxiety, and it is okay to have an adjustment disorder. We need to improve the conversation. We all have mental health in the same way we all have physical health.
Prince Harry
😔To all mothers in every circumstance, including those who struggle, I say, ‘Be peaceful. Believe in God and yourself. You are doing better than you think you are.’
Jeffrey R. Holland
😔Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’
Mary Anne Radmacher
😔The place of true healing is a fierce place. It’s a giant place. It’s a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light. And you have to work really, really, really hard to get there, but you can do it.
Cheryl Strayed
😔Do I wish I had never endured postpartum depression? Absolutely. But to deny the experience is to deny who I am.
Bryce Dallas Howard
😔It was like this weird alien overtook my body and every appropriate response was answered with the antithesis of what you would assume … Postpartum depression takes certain truths and turns them into the worst version of the truth.
Brooke Shields
😔Bad moments don’t make bad mamas.
Lysa Terkeurst
😔Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
😔Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
😔That is the biggest lie of depression. There is nothing good in leaving anybody behind.
Marie Osmond
😔A big part of being a well-adjusted person is accepting that you can’t be good at everything.
Kelly Williams Brown
😔Birth is the epicenter of women’s power.
Ani DiFranco
😔We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.
Laura Stavoe Harm
😔There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.
John Green
😔Once you choose hope, anything is possible.
Christopher Reeve
😔Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.
Polly Berrien Berends
😔The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Epictetus
😔Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.
Mariska Hargitay
😔Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Albert Schweitzer
😔The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore de Balzac
😔Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Robert H. Schuller
😔Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
Buddha
😔There will be so many times you feel like you’ve failed. But in the eyes, heart, and mind of your child, you are super mom.
Stephanie Precourt
😔Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
😔You are the one thing in this world, above all other things, that you must never give up on … Asking for help is the first step. You are more precious to this world than you’ll ever know.
Lili Reinhart
😔Being a new mother is supposed to be the happiest time of your life, but postpartum depression and anxiety strip that away for a time, but trust that it will not last forever.
Judy Dippel
😔Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.
Ricki Lake
😔Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
Jacques Prevert
😔My brain and my heart are really important to me. I don’t know why I wouldn’t seek help to have those things be as healthy as my teeth. I go to the dentist. So why wouldn’t I go to a shrink?
Kerry Washington
😔I couldn’t sleep. My heart was racing. And I got really depressed. I went to the doctor and found out my hormones had been pummeled.
Courteney Cox
😔It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed.
Doe Zantamata
😔There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Jill Churchill
😔The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Confucius
😔I had severe postpartum depression. When I got to the point of postpartum depression, there was no reason to get out of bed; I was too overwhelmed to get dressed. It was just so dark. I think that’s the only word I can explain.
Marie Osmond
Depression and anxiety quotes
Depression is a way of functioning in which a person is deeply and almost completely focused on their own shortcomings and frustrations. In these difficult times you may need words of wisdom and ecouragement. Also seeing somene going through it you can fell different about your state. Read down below depression and anxiety quotes and you’ll be surprised how much it can help you.
😢A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
Pat Riley
😢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
😢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.
Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
😢Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.
Victor Kiam
😢He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
Michel de Montaigne
😢Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
😢Difficult roads lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.
Zig Ziglar
😢The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better.
Ricky Williams
😢Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
Glenn Turner
😢The fear of being laughed at makes coward of us all.
Mignon McLaughlin
😢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
😢It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game.
Grantland Rice
😢Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
😢The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
Unknown author
😢If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
Frank A. Clark
😢The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.
Unknown
😢I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
😢I’ve certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everybody can relate to that quandary—the temptation to give in, to give up, and then what It takes to keep going.
Malcolm Gets
😢What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
Martha
😢It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Maya Angelou
😢We are all on a life long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven.
Martha Kilpatrick
😢Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
😢I think that one thing that cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.
Derek Bok
😢Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
😢Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.
Ricky Williams
😢Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Les Brown
😢Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
Mike Krzyzewski
😢Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
😢I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.
Frida Kahlo
😢The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Epicetus
😢I was only 9 years old. At that time you don’t realize that you can work super hard and give everything you have and lose. It was the best message for me.
Beyonce Knowles-Carter
😢Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.
Parker Palmer
😢Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosevelt
😢There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
Laurell K. Hamilton
😢When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.
Bernard Meltzer
Depression quotes short
😪Instead of wiping your tears, wipe away the people who create them.
😪Every time people ask me if I’m okay, it’s just a reminder that I’m not.
😪I like to pretend that everything’s alright. Because when everybody else thinks you’re fine, sometimes you forget for a while that you’re not.
😪Just because her eyes don’t tear doesn’t mean her heart doesn’t cry. And just because she comes off strong doesn’t mean there’s nothing wrong.
😪Sometimes all you can do is smile. Move on with your day, hold back the tears and pretend you’re okay.
😪The worst feeling in the world is knowing you did the best you could and it still wasn’t good enough.
😪It’s really sad how one day I seem to have everything going right, then the next day I lose everything so fast.
😪Being alone with your feelings is the worst because you have nowhere to run.
😪They’re here dancing in your mind and all you can do is handle.
😪There are times when explanations, no matter how reasonable, just don’t seem to help.
😪Depression isn’t just being a bit sad. It’s feeling nothin. It’s not wanting to be alive anymore.
J.K. Rowling
😪The people experiencing the most pain tend to be the ones who are always trying to make others smile.
😪I keep a lot of shit to myself because, in reality, nobody really gives a f..ck.
😪I get lost inside my mind.
😪You have no idea how worthless you made me feel.
😪Please forgive me if I don’t talk much at times. It’s loud enough in my head.
😪Sometimes when I say, “I’m okay”, I need someone to look me in the eyes, hug me tight and say, “ I know you are not.
😪I’m not even a person anymore. I’m just stress and sadness.
😪There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live.
😪Some of the most painful scars: the ones that hurt the most are the scars that can’t be seen.
😪Sometimes you gotta pretend everything’s okay.
😪When you’re depressed you don’t control your thoughts, your thoughts control you. I wish people understood that.
😪It sucks, doesn’t it? Feeling like you’re not good enough.
😪Some say I’m too sensitive but the truth is I just feel so much. Every word, every action, and every energy goes straight to my heart.
😪There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.
John Green
😪Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.
Dorothy Rowe
😪At some point you have to realize, he can stay in your heart but not in your life.
😪How do you run away from things that are in your head?
😪Loving yourself is the greatest revolution.
😪They tell me I’m not trying but how would they know.
😪You’re scared to tell people how much it hurts, so you keep it all to yourself.
😪The only thing standing between me and total happiness is a reality.
😪Dear Past, stop tapping me on the shoulders, I don’t want to look back.
😪I really want to talk to someone about my thoughts and feelings but I can’t.
😪I’ve been having a lot of bad days lately.
😪No amount of sleep in the world could cure the tiredness I feel.
😪My demons, though quiet, are never quite silenced. Calm as they may be, they wait patiently for a reason to wake, take an overdue breath, and crawl back to my ear.
😪I’ve been sad for years. Don’t tell me it gets better.
😪It’s always worse than it seems.
😪The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
Depression quotes deep
When the daily routine of the day, such as going to work, to school, to the cinema, to the gym, to see friends, etc., causes a sense of discomfort, despondency, sadness, indifference, it is possible that you are experiencing a feeling of depression. It could be a depressive episode in its embryonic stage, not yet very annoying, or a real depressive situation. Read down below depression quotes deep and get inspired by these beautiful quotes.
😥There’s death all around us. Everywhere we look. 1.8 people kill themselves every second. We just don’t pay attention. Until we do.
Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye
😥But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can’t forgive yourself for.
Melina Marchetta, Jellicoe Road
😥I guess that’s what saying good-bye is always like–like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you’re in the air, there’s nothing you can do but let go.
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
😥When people don’t know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.
Marion Cotillard
😥As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.
Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
😥Every time people ask me if I’m okay, it’s just a reminder that I’m not.
😥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
😥It’s getting harder to hide pain.
😥One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly, one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
😥Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
😥There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
😥This is what it felt like to have a broken heart. It felt less like a cracking down the middle and more like she had swallowed it whole and it sat bruised and bleeding in the pit of her stomach.
Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles
😥And something inside me just….. broke…. That’s the only way I could describe it.
Ranata Suzuki
😥It’s always worse than it seems.
😥But I didn’t understand them. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.
Haruki Murakami
😥She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there–like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.
Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
😥Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering, this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
😥I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colors and shades I knew existed.
Katie McGarry
😥I wanted to kill someone, and I wanted to die, and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could because she was never coming back. She had fallen off the face of the earth and she was never coming back.
Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day
😥Some of the most painful scars: the ones that hurt the most are the scars that can’t be seen.
😥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 believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
😥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, Prozac Nation
😥I need a break from the loneliness that is totally consuming me.
😥People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong for too long.
😥Having anxiety and depression is like being scared and tired at the same time. It’s the fear of failure, but no urge to be productive. It’s wanting friends but hate socializing. It’s wanting to be alone, but not wanting to be lonely. It’s feeling everything at once then feeling paralyzingly numb.
😥And then something invisible snapped inside her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.
John Green, Looking for Alaska
😥I need one of those long hugs where you kinda forget whatever else is happening around you for a minute.
Marilyn Monroe
😥You can see many smiles every day, but you can never know whose world is actually upside down.