Depression quotes can be a great way to help you when you’re feeling down. They can remind you that you’re not alone and that there are people, including celebrities like Billie Eilish and Dwayne Johnson who understand what you’re going through. I lost my mom in early 2022 and it’s been the most difficult thing that I’ve gone through in my life. I personally found some of these quotes to be comforting and hope they do the same for you.
The purpose of quotes about depression is to offer hope and inspiration and to remind you that things will get better. If you’re struggling with depression, reading some of these 37 depression quotes might just make your day a little bit brighter. Stay healthy and take care.
Let the depression quotes begin…
1) “A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you’re in a room full of a million people.” – Lilly Singh
2) “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. I didn’t want to be alive anymore. I think people actually finally understand [depression is] real. People are talking about it and I think this is the only way that it can change.” – Michael Phelps
3) “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.” – Anonymous
4) “Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.” – Pythagoras
Seeing the world in black and white when you used to see it in color…
5) “Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.” – Atticus poetry
6) “Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.” – Swami Sivananda
7) “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
8) “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
9) “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
10) “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 hating to socialize. It’s wanting to be alone but not wanting to be lonely. It’s caring about everything, then caring about nothing. It’s feeling everything at once, then feeling paralyzingly numb.” – Unknown
Depression Quotes by Elizabeth Wurtzel
11) “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
12) “If you feel everything intensely, ultimately, you feel nothing at all.” – Elizabeth Wurtzel
13) “I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you’re not alone.” – Dwayne Johnson
14) “In my opinion, living with manic depression takes a tremendous amount of balls. Not unlike a tour of Afghanistan (though the bombs and bullets, in this case, come from the inside). At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you’re living with this illness and functioning at all, it’s something to be proud of, not ashamed of. They should issue medals along with the steady stream of medication.” – Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
Be strong but don’t be afraid of seeking help if needed…
15) “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
16) “When people don’t know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.” – Marion Cotillard
17) “You’re like a grey sky. You’re beautiful, even though you don’t want to be.” – Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
18) “Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don’t believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it’s good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.” – Andrew Solomon
19) “Depression is melancholy minus its charms.” – Susan Sontag
20) “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, The Problem of Pain
Depression Quotes by J.K. Rowling
21) “Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced…It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.” – J.K. Rowling
22) “It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there because it’s not sadness.” –J.K. Rowling
23) “I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.” – Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins
24) “Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.” – Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
25) “One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.” – Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
26) “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, Imagine Dragons
27) “I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colors and shades I knew existed.” – Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits
28) “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
29) “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” – Laurell K. Hamilton
Depression quotes when you feel hopeless but believe me, you’ll get through it…
30) “Depression is like a heavy blanket. It covers all of me, and it’s hard to get up. But there’s comfort in it too. I know who I am when I’m under it.” – Unknown
31) “People think depression is sadness. That it’s crying and dressing in black, but people are wrong. Depression is the constant feeling of being numb. It’s being numb to emotions, being numb to life. You wake up in the morning just to go back to bed again.” – Unknown
32) “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
33) “You don’t understand depression until you can’t stand your own presence in an empty room.” – Unknown
34) “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, It’s Kind of a Funny Story
If you don’t feel like talking to anybody, just read more quotes about depression. You’re the most important person in the world and mean so much to so many people.
35) “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
36) “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, Cloud Atlas
37) “Depression is your body saying, ‘I don’t want to be this character anymore. 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
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