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139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health

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Well, boys and gals, as of now, we all can be certain of one thing - depression isn’t just feeling blue for a day or two; it’s more like blue is your whole existence. And it isn’t just feeling sad or lonely as it encompasses so many more symptoms, sadly, each of them being more bothersome than the last. You lose all sense of yourself and sense of others, and it’s like living in a cocoon that’s not all fuzzy and warm but cold, uncertain, and treacherous. You cannot trust your emotions anymore, and you cannot trust anyone else, for they, unknowingly, somehow trigger the worst of it. You get all teary and hysterical for the most menial things, and you feel so ashamed afterward. It is like that feeling when you are going down the stairs and miss the last step - it’s falling, it’s unraveling, and it is the tightest knot in your stomach. However, you are not a psycho for feeling all that, and it is not something to be ashamed of, and it is most definitely not how you are supposed to feel. And if you still have that stigmatized version of depression in your head, just think of it like this - your brain chemistry is a tiny bit off right now, and all you need is supplements to help it as a first step. See, not mental at all! And if you need any further proof that you are definitely not alone in this - why not read these depression quotes of famous people from various walks of life?

These deep quotes aren’t here to make you all the more muddled but rather to guide you and to show you that it is all fixable! However, you might dislike the term ‘motivating quotes’ right now; they might just do that without you knowing. On the other hand, if you are not the one battling depression but someone close to you is - these inspiring quotes might help you understand their position as most of the creators behind them had this illness themselves. Either way, these smart quotes could be exactly the thing you are looking for right now.

Without any further talk, why don’t you skip straight to the depression quotes a bit further down to see them for yourself? Once you are there, vote for the best quotes that have either moved you to search for a fix or helped you understand a person who is in this position. After that, share this article with anyone in need! Every bit of help counts when you are battling an illness like this.

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#1

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “All it takes is a beautiful fake smile to hide an injured soul and they will never notice how broken you really are.” — Robin Williams

44points

Shreya Swaminathan 2 years ago

He faked very well

7points

#2

“Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.” — Atticus

32points

Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago

Depression is living in a thick dark fog and knowing you’ll never see the sun!

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#3

“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

32points

Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago

I think Keanu is an old soul with a shimmering aura

3points

#4

“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.“

29points

Georgia Hebert 2 years ago

Yes!

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#5

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “Depression is living in a body that fights to survive, with a mind that tries to die.“ – Danny Baker

29points

Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago

Yep! Yep yep yep yep yep. YEP!

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#6

“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

26points

Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago

Depression is like being dead but you still have to go to a job you hate

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#7

“You’re not a bad person for the ways you tried to kill your sadness.”

25points

Blurryface 2 years ago

Whoever first said this; thank you.

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#8

“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”― Jo Nesbo

23points

Mistralok 2 years ago

Amen. For many years I was Chef de Cuisine, and then the cancer hit and was unable to work professionally. I could still do volunteer work feeding the needy. I put in over 100 hours last summer alone. However, it has come back with a vengeance and I'm too weak to do even that now. I spent my entire life making people happy on the holidays and training others to do so as well. I'm really having a hard time now even summoning the will to live.

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#9

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “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

22points

Random person 2 years ago

Accurate

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#10

“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

20points

Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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#11

“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

20points

Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago

You nailed it, RR!

0points

#12

“A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you’re in a room full of a million people.” — Lilly Singh

19points

Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago

It’s made worse by being in a room full of people—you feel the suffocation so much more intensely by not being able to interact with anyone in any meaningful way.

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#13

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “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

17points

#14

“I need one of those long hugs where you kinda forget whatever else is happening around you for minute.” — Marilyn Monroe

17points

#15

“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

16points

Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago

And not being able to get out.

0points

#16

“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 woke up into a nightmare.” – Ned Vizzini

16points

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#17

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”― Henry Rollins

15points

#18

“If you could read my mind, you wouldn’t be smiling.”― Tamara Ireland Stone

15points

#19

“Anger is energizing. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.“ – Gloria Steinem

15points

#20

“I have depression. But I prefer to say, ‘I battle’ depression instead of ‘I suffer’ with it. Because depression hits, but I hit back. Battle on.”

14points

janan3s 1 year ago

Actually, that is not a helpful manner to deal with depression. The more you resist, the harder it gets. I have learned to accept that it is what it is today. That is not the same as thinking it's alright. Just as a broken leg is not alright but you have to accept it's broken today. With depression there will come a moment you see a sparkle of light. Notice that. Embrace it Be happy with it. And from there you can work on your recovery. That is not easy. It is very hard and it takes a lot of time to learn. But it works.

0points

#21

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “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

14points

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#22

“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.”

13points

Shelley King 2 years ago

Accurate.

1point

#23

“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

13points

dee dee 2 years ago

Ah, Stephen Fry. A human more human than most. We are lucky to have him.

2points

#24

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “Depression isn’t a war you win. It’s a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It’s one bloody fray after another.” ― Shaun David Hutchinson

13points

Shelley King 2 years ago

This is the most accurate description of the 35 I've read so far. 'never get to rest' 'one bloody fray after another'

0points

#25

“Because that’s the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don’t want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lungs. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It’s mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time.” — Stephanie Perkins

13points

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#26

“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

12points

#27

“When people don’t know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.” – Marion Cotillard

12points

Ellie Reigns 1 year ago

😕

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#28

“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.”

12points

#29

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “Depression is melancholy minus its charms.” ― Susan Sontag

12points

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#30

“Depression is your body saying, ‘I don’t want to be this character anymore. I don’t want to hold up this avatar that you’ve created in the world. It’s too much for me. You should think of the word ‘depressed’ as ‘deep rest.’ Your body needs to be depressed. It needs deep rest from the character that you’ve been trying to play.” — Jim Carrey

12points

#31

“It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling—that really hollowed-out feeling.” — J.K. Rowling

12points

Georgia Hebert 2 years ago

Feelings? People actually have them?

1point

#32

“Depression isn’t about, ‘Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other’, it’s like having the worst flu all day that you just can’t kick.“ – Robbie Williams

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#33

“It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.” ― Stephen Fry

11points

#34

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “When you’re depressed you don’t control your thoughts, your thoughts control you. I wish people understood that.”

11points

Shelley King 2 years ago

Exactly.

1point

#35

“I’ve got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts — you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn’t do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.” ― D.D. Barant

11points

#36

“Rain makes me feel less alone. All rain is, is a cloud- falling apart, and pouring its shattered pieces down on top of you. It makes me feel good to know I’m not the only thing that falls apart . It makes me feel better to know other things in nature can shatter.”― Lone Alaskan Gypsy

11points

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#37

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.”― Miriam Toews

11points

#38

“Almost everyone is overconfident—except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.” ― Joseph T. Hallinan

11points

#39

“If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.” — Lao Tzu

11points

Shelley King 2 years ago

This is the most accurate description I've ever read on depression. I have chronic depression. Had chronic depression. I finally saw a psychiatrist at 59yrs old, because I'd had enough, my job was done and I deserved to be able to die if I wanted to. But my kids didn't deserve to have me leave them. So I told my GP I needed to see a psych or I was leaving for good. After a year, I know now that depression never was me, it definitely wasn't my personality, it was a broken brain. I take vitamin c for my immune system, and I take Venlafaxine for sertonin and norepinephrine. The depression is now to the left of me. I can see it, it just sits over there but it's got nothing to do with me. It never did. Chronic depression felt like a parasite that was glued to the workings in my mind. I now believe depression is another form of mental illness like any other mental illness i.e. bi-polar, adhd, etc. It needs to be relabelled, as depressed and depression are two vastly different things.

0points

#40

“Depression and anxiety are a symptom of too much consumption and too little creation. You were put on this earth to create.“ – Bill Masur

11points

#41

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.“ – Jonathan Safran Foer

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#42

“You don’t understand depression until you can’t stand your own presence in an empty room.“

11points

#43

“So you try to think of someone else you’re mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.” ― Ellen Hopkins

11points

#44

“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

10points

#45

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “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

10points

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#46

“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

10points

#47

“Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent.” – Elizabeth Wintzel

10points

#48

“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

10points

#49

“I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I’d lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be.” ― Marian Keyes

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#50

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “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

10points

#51

“Whenever I have a good few months and I think I’ve gotten over the worst on my depression, it silently returns. This isn’t a battle I asked to fight. I’m tired of knowing it’s always coming back.”

10points

#52

“The worst type of crying wasn’t the kind everyone could see–the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.” ― Katie McGarry

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#53

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.” ― Andrew Solomon

10points

dee dee 2 years ago

Andrew Solomon, another great human being. I remember listening to his TED talks and crying crying so hard cause in his words he explained me and what I was and am going through. Noonday demon is a pretty good book at simply explaining what depression is and how it affects the person. You just stop being you and you turn into a husk. Andrew Solomon has so much empathy and kindness. I will always remember his voice like a hug and his words like a warm blanket.

1point

#54

“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, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

10points

#55

“Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It’s always there, though.” ― Jeffrey Eugenides

10points

#56

“In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.” ― Judy Garland

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#57

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.” ― Suzanne Collins

10points

#58

“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

10points

#59

“I was 25 years old. I had my own TV show. I was happy with my work, but I couldn’t figure out what it was; it doesn’t always make sense is my point. It’s not just people who can’t find a job, or can’t fit in in society that struggle with depression sometimes.” — Jared Padalecki

10points

#60

“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.” — John Keats

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#61

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “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

10points

Shelley King 2 years ago

It's obvious when you read alice in wonderland that c.s.lewis had depression. He describes it to the T.

0points

#62

“Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.” ― Jasmine Warga

10points

#63

“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

9points

Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago

Medications can definitely help!

1point

#64

“I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.” ― Sylvia Plath

9points

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#65

“Some friends don’t understand this. They don’t understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you’re wonderful just the way you are. They don’t understand that I can’t remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about If you loved me you would.”― Elizabeth Wurtzel

9points

#66

“No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one’s dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable”― Kay Redfield Jamison

9points

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#67

“Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don’t stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself sink. Because you’ll never know true happiness until someone or something pulls you back out of that river–and you’ll never believe it until you realize it was you, yourself who saved you.” ― Alysha Speer

9points

Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago

What saves me is Sertraline

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#68

“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…I didn’t want to be alive anymore. I think people actually finally understand it’s real. People are talking about it and I think this is the only way that it can change.” — Michael Phelps

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#69

“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 M. Schulz

9points

#70

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.“ – Joyce Meyer

9points

Shelley King 2 years ago

Tha'ts deep sadness. Not depression.

0points

#71

“But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness.”― Robert Uttaro

9points

#72

“Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.” – Janet Fitch

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#73

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” ― Laurell K. Hamilton

8points

#74

“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

8points

#75

“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel

8points

#76

“When you’re lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you’ve just wandered off the path, that you’ll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it’s time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don’t even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert

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#77

“The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud — the obstacles of life and its suffering. … The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. … Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one. ” ― Goldie Hawn

8points

#78

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth

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#79

“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

8points

#80

“Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.” ― Dorothy M. Neddermeyer

8points

#81

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.” ― Sylvia Plath

8points

#82

“Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes. Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You’re doing just fine.” ― Charlotte Eriksson

8points

Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago

Too simplistic

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#83

“But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He’s going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it.”― Elizabeth Gilbert

8points

#84

“I didn’t know why I was feeling anxious or what was wrong with me, when I would go into public and feeling like I could vomit. I didn’t know why I wanted to sit on a couch while I was supposedly becoming something that everyone was so excited for me.” — Goldie Hawn

8points

#85

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “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

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#86

“Depression doesn’t take away your talents—it just makes them harder to find.” — Lady Gaga

8points

#87

“What I would tell kids going through anxiety, which I have and can relate to, is that you’re so normal. Everyone experiences a version of anxiety or worry in their lives, and maybe we go through it in a different or more intense way for longer periods of time, but there’s nothing wrong with you. To be a sensitive person that cares a lot, that takes things in in a deep way is actually part of what makes you amazing… I wouldn’t trade it for the world, even when there are really hard times. Don’t ever feel like you’re a weirdo for it because we’re all weirdos.” — Emma Stone

8points

#88

“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

8points

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#89

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “What they don’t tell you about depression is that sometimes it feels a lot less like sadness and a lot more like the emotional equivalent of watching paint dry.”

8points

#90

“I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me. ” — Elizabeth Wurtzel

8points

#91

“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

8points

#92

“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

8points

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#93

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear.” ― Sharon E. Rainey

8points

#94

“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

8points

#95

“Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.“ – Siri Hustvedt

8points

#96

“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.” ― Dodie Smith

8points

#97

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed.” ― Katie McGarry

8points

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#98

“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.” – Glenn Close

8points

#99

“Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.” — Pastor Rick Warren

8points

#100

“The difference between hope and despair is the ability to believe in tomorrow.” – Jerry Grillo

8points

#101

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.” ― Edward Abbey

8points

#102

“It’s hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity.”― Donna Lynn Hope

8points

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#103

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” — William James

8points

#104

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you’re not alone.” — Dwayne Johnson

7points

#105

“Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.” ― Brené Brown

7points

#106

“She was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute she would be in tears like a porcelain angel, about to teeter, fall and break. She never cried because she was afraid that something ‘would’ happen; she would cry because she feared something that could render the world more beautiful, ‘would not’ happen.” ― Roman Payne

7points

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#107

“I felt plagued with a negative attitude and a sense that I was permanently in the shade. I’m normally such a bubbly, positive person, and all of a sudden I stopped feeling like myself. Anyone can be affected, despite their level of success or their place on the food chain. In fact, there is a good chance you know someone who is struggling with it since nearly 20% of American adults face some form of mental illness in their lifetime. So why aren’t we talking about it?” — Kristen Bell

7points

#108

“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

7points

#109

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions when all sorts of grief and sort of lies and misconceptions and everything are coming to you from every angle.” — Prince Harry

7points

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#110

“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

7points

#111

“It’s my mission to share this with the world and to let them know that there is life on the other side of those dark times that seem so hopeless and helpless. I want to show the world that there is life — surprising, wonderful and unexpected life after diagnosis.” — Demi Lovato

7points

#112

“You are the one thing in this world, above all other things, that you must never give up on. When I was in middle school, I was struggling with severe anxiety and depression and the help and support I received from my family and a therapist saved my life. Asking for help is the first step. You are more precious to this world than you’ll ever know.” — Lili Reinhart

7points

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#113

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “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

7points

#114

“Being an actress hasn’t made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.” — Amy Adams

7points

#115

“When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.” – Ariel Gore

7points

#116

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

7points

dee dee 2 years ago

Keeping myself busy while I tried to ignore what i felt nearly unmade me, literally. Now when i try to keep myself busy i take it as a sign i am spiraling down. It's so easy to keep busy, and keep so busy you forget to eat for days. So easy to keep so busy you don't sleep.

0points

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#117

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.“ – Pythagoras

7points

#118

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” ― Amit Ray

7points

#119

“A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life’s gas-pipe with a lighted candle.” ― P.G. Wodehouse

7points

#120

“If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill, let yourself fall ill.” ― Jalaluddin Rumi

7points

#121

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health "I wondered why I couldn’t go the whole way doing what I should anymore. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn’t go the whole way doing what I shouldn’t, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired." ― Sylvia Plath

7points

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#122

“You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have the right to be here.” — Max Ehrmann

7points

#123

“If we start being honest about our pain, our anger, and our shortcomings instead of pretending they don’t exist, then maybe we’ll leave the world a better place than we found it.” – Russell Wilson

7points

#124

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “Promise me you’ll always remember — you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — Christopher Robin

7points

#125

“People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, and their families feel a sense of shame about it, which doesn’t help. One needs support and understanding. I am now working on an initiative to create awareness about anxiety and depression and help people.” — Deepika Padukone

6points

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#126

“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

6points

#127

“I’m very available to depression. I can slip in and out of it quite easily. It started when my granddad died, when I was about 10, and while I never had a suicidal thought, I have been in therapy, lots.” — Adele

6points

#128

“I went through a time where I was really depressed. Like, I locked myself in my room and my dad had to break my door down. It was a lot to do with, like, I had really bad skin, and I felt really bullied because of that. But I never was depressed because of the way someone else made me feel, I just was depressed.” — Miley Cyrus

6points

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#129

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “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

6points

#130

“I’m not grateful for depression, but it honestly made me work harder and gave me the drive that I have to succeed and to make it work.” – Lili Reinhart

6points

#131

“It doesn’t get better,” I said. “The pain. The wounds scab over and you don’t always feel like a knife is slashing through you. But when you least expect it, the pain flashes to remind you you’ll never be the same.” ― Katie McGarry

6points

#132

“Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.” – Janet Fitch

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#133

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one’s own skilled action.”― Robert M. Sapolsky

6points

#134

“When your past shows up to haunt you, make sure it comes after supper so it doesn’t ruin your whole day.”― Jay Wickre

6points

#135

“Everyday is a second chance.”

5points

#136

“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.” ― John Keats

5points

#137

139 Depression Quotes That Shed The Light On Mental Health “I moved out of L.A., went into a severe depression, started seeing a therapist and had to go on antidepressants for the first time in my life. It was scary and lonely. I can’t believe I came back from that point.” — Ellen DeGeneres

4points

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#138

“It’s brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.” ― Nick Hornby

4points

#139

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

3points

Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago

That’s complete doo-doo! Tom has clearly never spent a moment in the eternal soul-smog that is depression!

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