30 Famous and Deep Depressing Quotes on Being Alone
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We hope these highly empowering and overcoming sad and deep depressing quotes by famous authors will give you the mental strength to brush past the disappointment and lead a peaceful life.
Life is uncertain, and many unfavorable events could easily make us susceptible to depression and loneliness.
Let’s take an oath to ourselves out of self-love that nothing (no event or person) will overpower us so severely that we get heartbroken and lose the will to live at all.
Life is fleeting, nothing is ever permanent in life, so it is essential not to have serious expectations and high hopes.
The misplaced priorities and wrong value judgment cause a deep depressing attitude within oneself.
Remember this deeply, the more the expectation from the world for psychological fulfillment, the more chances of moving towards depression.
Be mentally tough;; never allow anything or anybody to shatter and dismantle you inside after a certain level.
Be unbreakable because that is our nature, we only have to realize our mental tenacity sooner or later, and the need to feel depressed will vanish from our lives.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
– W. M. Lewis
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
– Donald Rumsfeld
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out, also keeps out the joy.
– Jim Rohn
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
Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It’s a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It’s the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.
– Ben Shapiro
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
It’s a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor, never knowing when the light will go on.
– Neil Lennon
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 from humanity. The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it.
– Jonathan Franzen
To perceive is to suffer.
– Aristotle
Wanting to be happy is not the worst thing in the world, but wanting it badly enough to make us depressed is.
– John Washington
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 is a crushing moment when you realize that your life has either been a series of huge mistakes, or worse; it hasn’t.
– Temperance
We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death.
– Gautama Buddha
The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.
– William Somerset Maugham
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others-it only changes yours.
– Shannon Alder
Living with hope is like rubbing up against a cheese grater. It keeps taking slices off you until there’s so little left you just crumble.
– Catherine Austen
She can paint a pretty picture but this story has a twist. The paintbrush is a razor and the canvas is her wrist.
– Amy Efaw
You have moved my world when you came, but you made it shake when you left.
– Ishael Ryun
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fire.
– Francois de la Rochefoucauld
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
– Boethius
