Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.
– Atticus
Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
– Charlotte Brontë
The sun stopped shining for me that’s all. The whole story is: I am sad.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes just getting up in the morning is the most heroic thing you can do.
– Anonymous
There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.
– John Green
You’re like a grey sky. You’re beautiful, even though you don’t want to be.
– Jasmine Warga
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
– Elizabeth Wurtzel
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also harder to bear.
– C.S. Lewis
Depression lies. It tells you you’ve always felt this way, and you always will. But you haven’t, and you won’t.
– Halley Cornell
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
– John Keats
You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.
– Julian Seifter
It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness.
– J.K. Rowling
I need one of those long hugs where you kinda forget whatever else is happening around you for a minute.
– Anonymous
When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself.
– Unknown
Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
– Jack Kornfield
I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
– Henry Rollins
Depression, suffering, and anger are all part of being human.
– Janet Fitch
A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you’re in a room full of a million people.
– Lilly Singh
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
– Charlotte Brontë
I was born with a curse. It is called depression.
– Anonymous
When people don’t know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.
– Marion Cotillard
It’s not the feeling of completeness I need, but the feeling of not being empty.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
Sometimes when I say ‘I’m okay,’ I need someone to look me in the eyes, hug me tight, and say, ‘I know you’re not.’
– Anonymous
When you suffer from depression, “I’m tired” means a permanent state of exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix.
– Anonymous
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.
– Anonymous
No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever.
– Iyanla Vanzant
Sometimes, I just need someone to tell me I’m not as worthless as I think I am.
– Anonymous
Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind.
– Jeffrey Eugenides
I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
Depression is not the end, but it can feel like it.
– Anonymous
Depression is feeling like you’ve lost something but having no clue when or where you last had it.
– Anonymous
Depression is the overwhelming sense of numbness and the desire for anything that can help you make it from one day to the next.
– Anonymous
I wanted to write down exactly what I felt but somehow the paper stayed empty and I could not have described it any better.
– Anonymous
I’m not better, you know. Not really. I’m still sad. I still cry. But I’m still here.
– Anonymous
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
I have depression. But I prefer to say, ‘I battle’ depression instead of ‘I suffer’ with it.
– Anonymous
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
– Rollo May
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
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
It’s not always the tears that measure the pain. Sometimes it’s the smile we fake.
– Anonymous
Depression is a battle between a body that fights with all its might to survive and a mind that wants to die.
– Anonymous
My depression is not your sadness.
– Anonymous
One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery.
– Anonymous
In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
– Albert Camus
I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings would disappear.
– Anonymous
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent.
– Elizabeth Wintzel
Sometimes, the only way out of the darkness is to remember that we once saw the light.
– Anonymous
I’m not afraid of the storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
– Louisa May Alcott
You’re not a bad person for the ways you tried to kill your sadness.
– Anonymous
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
– Carl Jung
Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.
– Matt Lucas
Give yourself another day, another chance. You will find your courage eventually. Don’t give up on yourself just yet.
– Anonymous
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
– Dodie Smith
You’re not alone. You’re seen. I’m with you. You’re not alone.
– Anonymous
Tears are words that need to be written.
– Paulo Coelho
What people never understand is that depression isn’t about the outside; it’s about the inside.
– Anonymous
Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.
– Dorothy Rowe
It’s okay to not be okay all the time.
– Anonymous
When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself.
– Anonymous
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
Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.
– Joyce Meyer
It’s okay to feel broken. It’s okay to cry. It’s okay to ask for help. It’s okay to not be okay.
– Anonymous
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
– Seneca
No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.
– Anonymous
Don’t believe everything you think.
– Anonymous
You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.
– Dan Millman
It’s not always easy, but it’s always worth it to fight through the darkness.
– Anonymous
Depression is being in a war with no possibility of winning.
– Anonymous
When you’re depressed, you don’t control your thoughts; your thoughts control you.
– Anonymous
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
– Winston Churchill
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
Depression is melancholy minus its charms.
– Susan Sontag
Recovery is hard. Regret is harder.
– Brittany Burgunder
Depression is like drowning, except you can see everyone else around you breathing.
– Anonymous
Healing is not linear.
– Anonymous
If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to others, then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself.
– Nikita Gill
Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.
– Mariska Hargitay
Once you choose hope, anything is possible.
– Christopher Reeve
Depression is like a war – you either win or die trying.
– Anonymous
Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.
– Stephen Fry
The only thing more exhausting than being depressed is pretending that you’re not.
– Anonymous
I’m exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel.
– Anonymous
Depression feels like being stuck in a dark tunnel with no light at the end.
– Anonymous
Depression doesn’t take away your talents, it just makes them harder to find.
– Anonymous
I feel lost inside myself.
– Anonymous
Depression is not a sign of weakness. It means you’ve been strong for too long.
– Anonymous
I am drowning in a sea of despair.
– Anonymous
Depression is feeling like you’re lost at sea, constantly battling the waves.
– Anonymous
Sometimes, it’s okay if the only thing you did today was breathe.
– Yumi Sakugawa
When you’re depressed, life seems to move in slow motion.
– Anonymous
Depression is like carrying a weight that never leaves your side.
– Anonymous
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
– Dante Alighieri
Depression is not something that you can just snap out of.
– Anonymous
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
When you’re in a dark place, you sometimes tend to think you’ve been buried, perhaps you’ve been planted. Bloom.
– Anonymous
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
The hardest part of depression is pretending you don’t have it.
– Anonymous
Depression is a prison, but you have the key to get out.
– Anonymous
It’s not that I want to die, I just want to be free from this pain.
