150 Feeling Depressed Quotes and Sayings about Love and Life
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We hope these highly uplifting and life-affirming depressed quotes and sayings will give better clarity, hope, and faith to start a new life devoid of sadness and loneliness.
Depression is a mood disorder and a state of mind that feels extremely sad, lifeless, empty, and lonely from the inside.
Depressed individuals generally look at everything with apathy, and the hope for betterment and positivity is found nowhere in their life.
What causes depression?
Depression results from deep inner frustration of unfulfilled desires of the mind.
Depression happens because of a lack of understanding of how our minds work. Remember clearly, it’s not the body that gets depressed, but our psyche.
Feeling sad, anxiety struck, and depressed shows a lack of clarity on the mind’s innate workings.
We need to understand who is hurt, how it is connected with the mind’s dual nature of expectations and disappointments, the root of our desires and, the subsequent frustrations when it gets unfulfilled.
How to overcome depression?
Seeing clearly that it is the fundamental lack of understanding of the ‘mind’ has caused me to feel depressed in the first place.
We want to emphasize powerful depressing quotes that highlight a crucial point; Jo Nesbo says, ‘ Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.
Don’t nourish the past suffering, guilt, and hurts. The past and future solely exist in our minds. There are no realities to it.
Life is fresh and throbbing in front of you. Pause. Look and observe; where is depression in the newness that is waiting to happen to you?
That’s the only way to go beyond depression. Give some self-love and have faith.
Know this deeply; however severely you have been hurt, bruised, or disappointed, you will be alright, and you will always be okay despite life’s uncertainties.
You are stronger than you think you are. No bad events can dismantle the inner integrity.
Bring that quality into living, and depressing thoughts will lose their hold slowly as inner clarity increases.
Life is precious. You and I are unique. Let’s live life with all its colors beautifully in-depth and in clarity.
Some of the highly recommended wisdom literature books to gain crystal clear mental clarity and beat depression from its roots :
Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
– James Hillman
Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.
– Michael Schenker
Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.
– Siobhan Fahey
If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
– Martha Graham
People with depression have something very valuable to teach us, how to live when it doesn’t ever feel good.
– Kay Warren
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
– Laurell K. Hamilton
It’s like being in a glass elevator in the middle of a crowded mall; you see everything and would love to join in, but the door won’t open so you can’t.
– Lisa Moore Sherman
It’s not always the tears that measure the pain. Sometimes it’s the smile we fake.
– Unknown
Depression is like being in a totally round room and looking for a corner to sit in.
– Laura Sloate
In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come — not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. And this results in a striking experience — one which I have called, borrowing military terminology, the situation of the walking wounded.
– William Styron
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony, and music inside me.
– Vincent Van Gogh
There were still the periods of darkness, the spasms of panic; but now he knew they were not real, and because he knew this, he overcame them.
– V.S. Naipaul
Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one’s taking.
– Douglas Coupland
Depression is unfocused self-pity.
– Bill Wilson
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
– Dr. Rollo May
A lot of people don’t realize that depression is an illness. I don’t wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
– Jonathan Davis
That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.
– Elizabeth Wurtzel
Depression occurs when one looks back with no pride, and looks forward with no hope.
– Robert Frost
Depression is melancholy minus its charms, the animation, the fits.
– Susan Sontag
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
– Jim Rohn
You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.
– Dalai Lama
It’s a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor never knowing when the light will go on.
– Neil Lennon
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.
– unknown
I’m tired of trying, sick of crying, I know I’ve been smiling, but inside I’m dying.
– Unknown
Having depression is like seeing a rainbow in grayscale.
– Hazel Strickland
Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.
– Dorothy Rowe
You handle depression in much the same way you handle a tiger.
– R. W. Shepherd
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
Depression is living in a body that fights to survive, with a mind that tries to die.
– Unknown
If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking.
– Elizabeth Wurtzel
There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.
– Dante
Having depression is being in an abusive relationship with yourself.
– Emily Dotterer
If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.
– Dr. Rollo May
Sometimes it’s easier to pretend that you don’t care, than to admit it’s killing you.
– Unknown
Do not be depressed. Do not let your weakness make you impatient. Instead, let the serenity of your spirit shine through your face. Let the joy of your mind burst forth.
– Peter Damian
Being depressed is like being grounded except it’s your brain ruining your life instead of your mom.
– Unknown
If depression is creeping up and must be faced, learn something about the nature of the beast: You may escape without a mauling.
– Dr. R. W. Shepherd
A new study found that people who are depressed have a greater risk of stroke. Well that should cheer them up.
– Jay Leno
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
Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.
– Jo Nesbo
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb, I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries.
– Paul Simon
Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.
– Charles Spurgeon
The only thing more exhausting than being depressed is pretending that you’re not.
– Unknown
When you feel worried and depressed, consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes it’s heavy like you’re carrying an elephant. Sometimes it’s dark; you wonder if you’ll ever see light. Sometimes it’s bleak; you wonder if you’ll make it through. And some days there are no words to describe it.
– Tonia Funk Brassell
Having depression is like being trapped in a really bad thunderstorm. You don’t know when it’s going to hit, you never know how long it’s going to last, and when it finally passes, you’re left to survey the damages and pick up the pieces.
– Tiffany Johnson
Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind.
– Jeffrey Eugenides
Depression is frustrating. It’s knowing there’s so much to be grateful for and happy about and to enjoy, but you just can’t get there.
– Allie Griffin
I am now the most miserable man living.
– Abraham Lincoln
Everything passes away — suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will still remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why?
– Mikhail Bulgakov
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
– Andrew Solomon
My depression had grown on me as that vine had conquered the oak; it had been a sucking thing that had wrapped itself around me, ugly and more alive than I. It had a life of its own that bit by bit asphyxiated all of my life out of me. At the worst stage of major depression, I had moods that I knew were not my moods: they belonged to the depression, as surely as the leaves on that tree’s high branches belonged to the vine.
– Andrew Solomon
It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it. What stuff ’tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself.
– William Shakespeare
Instead of medication, I want sunshine & birdsongs — the kind of laughter that begins in my chest & tumbles out & across my frame like waves lapping at the shore of a beach.
– M.J. Fievre
Well, I can usually come out of it when I have the blues, but now I’m so depressed that I have nothing more to lose.
– Bill Granse
Depression is like quicksand, the more you try to escape on your own, the deeper you sink. Use the supports, tools and resources thrown at you from those on the outside.
– Jamie Awtry McClintic
Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts.
– Penelope Sweet
There is nothing more depressing, than having everything, and still feeling sad.
– Janet Jackson
Depression is like drowning. Except you can see everyone else around you breathing.
– Unknown
My unhappiness has become a steady, calm quiet sort of misery. It is always with me and when for a moment something or other stirs me from its immediate ravages (thank God that is still possible) — I wonder at its absence.
– Lorraine Hansberry
I am now so depressed I have not an idea to put to paper — my hand feels like lead — and yet it is an unpleasant numbness it does not take away the pain of existence.
– John Keats
I am so angry with myself because I cannot do what I should like to do, and at such a moment one feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well, utterly helpless.
– Vincent Van Gogh
The gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. But it is not an immediately identifiable pain, like that of a broken limb. It may be more accurate to say that despair, owing to some evil trick played upon the sick brain by the inhabiting psyche, comes to resemble the diabolical discomfort of being imprisoned in a fiercely overheated room. And because no breeze stirs this caldron, because there is no escape from this smothering confinement, it is entirely natural that the victim begins to think ceaselessly of oblivion.
– William Styron
Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.
– May Sarton
Of course, despair is not your friend or your enemy, you mustn’t blame him! He is your persistent creditor, and you? You are the gambler with your soul as the stakes.
– Lin Huiyin
It gives, to think that our immortal being, no more shall need such garments; and yet man, as long as he shall be the child of earth, might almost ‘weep to have’ what he may lose, nor be himself extinguished, but survive, abject, depressed, forlorn, disconsolate.
– William Wordsworth
Oh, though oft depressed and lonely, all my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only such as these have lived and died!
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There was no water in my eyes, but my spirits were depressed. And my heart lay like a sodden, soggy doughnut in my breast.
– Eugene Field
Dispirited became our friend. Depressed his moral pecker.
– William Schwenck Gilbert
A grief that kept her ever brooding yet, and wholly melancholy and depressed, nor yet could she find sleep by night nor rest, by day, for thinking — thinking — thinking still.
– James Whitcomb Riley
I sat depressed; till, later, my Love came; But something in the chamber. Dimmed our flame, an emanation, making our due words fall tame.
– Thomas Hardy
The worst part of depression is that it dulls every positive feeling but intensifies every negative one. Joy is muted; sorrow is amplified.
– Oslo Redgrave
Mom, my depression is a shape shifter. One day it is as small as a firefly in the palm of a bear. The next it’s the bear. On those days I play dead until the bear leaves me alone.
– Sabrina Benaim
Nothing is really wrong and everything is really wrong.
– Ken Willidau
I suffer from post-everything depression. Particularly after signing off the Internet.
– Ken Willidau
You know you’re depressed when you have daymares.
– Ken Willidau
Do I look depressed? People are yelling ‘jump’ at me, walking through the mall.
– Ken Willidau
What, then, is depression? It is hysteria of the spirit. Soren Kierkegaard
There is something unexplainable in depression. A person with a sorrow or a worry knows why he sorrows or worries. If a depressed person is asked what the reason is, what it is that weighs on him, he will answer: I do not know; I cannot explain it. Therein lies the limitlessness of depression.
– Soren Kierkegaard
Depression is something real that one does not delete with the stroke of the pen.
– Soren Kierkegaard
To destroy an undesirable rate of mental vibration, concentrate on the opposite vibration to the one to be suppressed. What is the source of sadness but feebleness of the mind? What gives it power but the want of reason? Rouse yourself to the combat, and it quits the field before you strike.
– Khemetic Saying
Depression never brings me what I want; My virtue will be warped and marred by it. If there is a remedy when trouble strikes, What reason is there for despondency? And if there is no help for it, What use is there in being sad?
– Shantideva
Despair is a mental state which exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.
– Marquis De Vauvenargues
It is despair, and despair alone, that begets heroic hope, absurd hope, mad hope.
– Miguel de Unamuno
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
– Wilhelm Stekel
Men have been depressed now for many years in their male and resplendent selves, depressed into dejection and almost abjection. Is that not evil?
– D.H. Lawrence
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.
– Thomas Merton
Distress tends to make you feel constricted in your personal identity, but if you are thinking of the distress of the whole of humanity, or even just the sadness of people around you in your everyday life, you begin to realize how puny your concern for yourself is.
– Vilayat Khan
Hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need to found our hope upon.
– Ursula Le Guin
Depression can be a signal to reexamine assumptions and change strategies—a slowing down to reorient. If we are to deal effectively with problems, we have to see them realistically. And we have to define our purpose. The best antidepressants are expression and action—engagement in the struggle. That way depression is not an end, but a meaningful beginning.
– Marilyn Ferguson
I’m holding on, why is everything so heavy? Holding on so much more than I can carry. I keep dragging around what’s bringing me down. If I just let go, I’d be set free.
– Brad Delson
I don’t like my mind right now. Stacking up problems that are so unnecessary. Wish that I could slow things down I wanna let go but there’s comfort in the panic.
– Brad Delson
I saw the world from the stars’ point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.
– Shaun David Hutchinson
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
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.
– Elizabeth Wurtzel
One need not be a chamber to be haunted.
– Emily Dickinson
You are so brave and quiet, I forget you are suffering.
– Ernest Hemingway
I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity.
– Edgar Allan Poe
One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery.
– Demi Lovato
A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
– Ian McEwan
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
– C.S. Lewis
I never had a place to call my own I never had a home. Ain’t nobody callin’ my phone. Where you been? Where you at? What’s on your mind? They say every life precious but nobody care about mine.
– Alessia Caracciolo
There are peaks, there are valleys. But they’re all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level of despair you live in. Where you’re not getting any answers, but you’re living OK. And you can smile at the office. You know? But it’s a low level of despair.
– Jim Carrey
I look inside myself and see my heart is black, I see my red door and must have it painted black maybe then I’ll fade away and not have to face the facts it’s not easy facing up when your whole world is black.
– Keith Richards; Mick Jagger
There’s a black crow sitting across from me. His wiry legs are crossed. He’s dangling my keys, he even fakes a toss. Whatever could it be. That has brought me to this loss?
– Justin Deyarmond Edison Vernon
In my dark times, I’ve still got some problems. I know, driving too fast but just moving to slow. And I’ve got something. I’ve been trying to let go. Pulling me back every time.
– Jason Quenneville
Every night I just want to go out, get out of my head. Every day I don’t want to get up, get out of my bed.
– Paul McCartney
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow. No tomorrow, no tomorrow.
– Roland Orzabal
While I breathe, I hope.
– Latin Proverb
Feeling Angry and Sad Depressed Quotes and Sayings
Never despair but if you do, work on in despair.
– Edmund Burke
Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
It is both a blessing and a curse to feel everything so very deeply.
– David Jones
You say you’re depressed—all I see is resilience.
– David Mitchell
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
– Glenn Close
I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
– Ursula Le Guin
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
– John Keats
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
– Philip K. Dick
