50 Depression Quotes To Ease Your Depression
Looking for the best depression quotes? These 50 epic depression quotes will show you what true acceptance is all about.
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Let’s chat about depression quotes.
The following quotes about depression will instantly warm your heart.
These depression quotes will also make you realise what TRUE acceptance of your depression looks like.
Let me share with you the most inspiring, loveliest depression quotes.
So without further ado, here are the 50 depression quotes – embrace these and enjoy!
DEPRESSION QUOTES
1 – My forest is dark, the trees are sad, and all the butterflies have broken wings. Raine Cooper
2 – Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just have to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It’s always there though. Jeffery Eugenides
3 – 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
4 – It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior.
People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love.
Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless. Andrew Solomon
5 – 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
6 -In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus
7- Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When “I’ is replaced by “we,” illness becomes wellness. Shannon L. Alder
8 – You aren’t the things that haunt you. You aren’t the pain you feel. You aren’t defective or broken. You’re human, you’re doing the best you can, and you have so much to offer the world than the demons you’re fighting. Daniell Koepke
9 – Your pain is an opportunity for you to learn about yourself. Gary Zukav
10 – If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve to never ask why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Stephen Fry
DEPRESSION QUOTES
11 – Everything that drowned me taught me how to swim. Jenim Dibie
12 – People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong too long. Johnny Depp
13 – 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
14 – Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed, until it is faced. James Baldwin
15 – 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
16 – She wasn’t sad anymore, she was numb, and she knew somehow numb was worse. Atticus
17- 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
18 – I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you’re not alone. Dwayne Johnson
19 – We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive ones. Brene Brown
20 – Don’t believe every worried thought you have. Worried thoughts are notoriously inaccurate. Renee Jain
DEPRESSION QUOTES
21 – The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway
22 – Depression doesn’t take away your talents—it just makes them harder to find. Lady Gaga
23 – 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
24 – 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
25 – There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. Laurell K. Hamilton
26 – Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller
27- When it is darkest, we can see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson
28 – The wisest people are the ones who have experienced the worse.
29 – Do not be numb. If you wish to heal your wounds; first learn to feel where they are. A. Daniel
30 – Physical scars heal but mental scars reopen after every memory.
DEPRESSION QUOTES
31 – Just because all you see is suffering does not mean that overcoming it is out of the question.
32 – Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. Paulo Coelho
33 – Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human. Janet Fitch
34 – 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.
35 – 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
36 – Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is. Atticus
37- The worst kind of sadness is not being able to explain why.
38 – Make peace with your broken pieces. R.H. Sin
39 – There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t. John Green
40 – 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
DEPRESSION QUOTES
41 – 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. Margaret Atwood
42 – The real reasons for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over. Ernest Hemingway
43 – 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.
44 – 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
45 – 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
46 – 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
47- 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
48 – In the darkest time, I have always believed, the light will shine. Laila Akita
49 – 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.
50 – 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
BONUS: 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
Much love,
Frances Vidakovic
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