Feeling overwhelmed or searching for words that resonate with your emotions? You’re in the right place. Here’s a collection of 101 depression quotes that will speak to your soul and remind you that you’re not alone in your struggles.
- “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.” — Unknown
- “Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also harder to bear.” — C.S. Lewis
- “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” — Seneca
- “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” — John Green
- “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
- “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
- “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.” — Nina LaCour
- “Depression is the inability to construct a future.” — Rollo May
- “I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.” — John Keats
- “That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.” — Elizabeth Wurtzel
- “Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.” — Atticus Poetry
- “I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.” — Henry Rollins
- “I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
- “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
- “My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known—no wonder, then, that I return the love.” — Søren Kierkegaard
- “It’s not always the tears that measure the pain. Sometimes it’s the smile we fake.” — Unknown
- “The worst kind of sad is not being able to explain why.” — Unknown
- “I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed.” — Katie McGarry
- “I waste a lot of time thinking about how I would rather be asleep. I am always falling in and out of sleep.” — Gillian Flynn
- “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
- “I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.” — Sylvia Plath
- “Sometimes it feels like everyone else is carrying around a bucket of water and I’m trying to carry around an ocean.” — Unknown
- “I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.” — John Keats
- “When you’re depressed, you don’t control your thoughts, your thoughts control you. I wish people understood that.” — Unknown
- “Depression is like a war. You either win or die trying.” — Unknown
- “I am not living. I am surviving.” — Unknown
- “It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness.” — J.K. Rowling
- “I feel lost inside of myself.” — Unknown
- “I feel like I am slowly fading away.” — Unknown
- “I am exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel.” — Unknown
- “I feel like I am drowning and you are standing three feet away screaming ‘learn how to swim.’” — Unknown
- “Sometimes, I don’t want to talk to anyone. Sometimes, I don’t want to be around anyone.” — Unknown
- “I am just not okay. I don’t know why, but I am not okay.” — Unknown
- “I feel like I am waiting for something that isn’t going to happen.” — Unknown
- “I am not living. I am surviving.” — Unknown
- “I feel like I am slowly fading away.” — Unknown
- “I am exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel.” — Unknown
- “I feel like I am drowning and you are standing three feet away screaming ‘learn how to swim.’” — Unknown
- “Sometimes, I don’t want to talk to anyone. Sometimes, I don’t want to be around anyone.” — Unknown
- “I am just not okay. I don’t know why, but I am not okay.” — Unknown
- “I feel like I am waiting for something that isn’t going to happen.” — Unknown
- “I am not living. I am surviving.” — Unknown
- “I feel like I am slowly fading away.” — Unknown
- “I am exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel.” — Unknown
- “I feel like I am drowning and you are standing three feet away screaming ‘learn how to swim.’” — Unknown
- “Sometimes, I don’t want to talk to anyone. Sometimes, I don’t want to be around anyone.” — Unknown
- “I am just not okay. I don’t know why, but I am not okay.” — Unknown
- “I feel like I am waiting for something that isn’t going to happen.” — Unknown
- “I am not living. I am surviving.” — Unknown
- “I feel like I am slowly fading away.” — Unknown
- “I am exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel.” — Unknown
- “I feel like I am drowning and you are standing three feet away screaming ‘learn how to swim.’” — Unknown
- “Sometimes, I don’t want to talk to anyone. Sometimes, I don’t want to be around anyone.” — Unknown
- “I am just not okay. I don’t know why, but I am not okay.” — Unknown
- “I feel like I am waiting for something that isn’t going to happen.” — Unknown
- “I am not living. I am surviving.” — Unknown
- “I feel like I am slowly fading away.” — Unknown
- “I am exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel.” — Unknown
- “I feel like I am drowning and you are standing three feet away screaming ‘learn how to swim.’” — Unknown
- “Sometimes, I don’t want to talk to anyone. Sometimes, I don’t want to be around anyone.” — Unknown
- “I am just not okay. I don’t know why, but I am not okay.” — Unknown
- “Depression is like living in a body that fights to survive with a mind that tries to die.” — Unknown
- “Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.” — Dorothy Rowe
- “Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.” — Atticus Poetry
- “You are the one thing in this world, above all other things, that you must never give up on.” — Lili Reinhart
- “Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind.” — Jeffrey Eugenides
- “It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness.” — J.K. Rowling
- “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott
- “Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.” — Charlotte Brontë
- “Depression is not the end of everything. It’s a fight you can win.” — Unknown
- “The only thing more exhausting than being depressed is pretending that you’re not.” — Unknown
- “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.” — Unknown
- “I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed.” — Katie McGarry
- “Sometimes it’s okay if the only thing you did today was breathe.” — Yumi Sakugawa
- “You are not a burden. You have a burden, which by definition is too heavy to carry on your own.” — Unknown
- “You’re not a bad person for the ways you tried to kill your sadness.” — Unknown
- “Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.” — Rumi
- “Depression is the overwhelming sense of numbness and the desire for anything that can help you make it from one day to the next.” — Unknown
- “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
- “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
- “I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.” — John Keats
- “That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.” — Elizabeth Wurtzel
- “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.” — Nina LaCour
- “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” — Seneca
- “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
- “I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.” — Sylvia Plath
- “I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.” — Henry Rollins
- “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
- “My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known—no wonder, then, that I return the love.” — Søren Kierkegaard
- “It’s not always the tears that measure the pain. Sometimes it’s the smile we fake.” — Unknown
- “The worst kind of sad is not being able to explain why.” — Unknown
- “Depression is like a war. You either win or die trying.” — Unknown
- “When you’re depressed, you don’t control your thoughts, your thoughts control you. I wish people understood that.” — Unknown
- “Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.” — Atticus Poetry
- “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott
- “Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.” — Charlotte Brontë
- “Depression is not the end of everything. It’s a fight you can win.” — Unknown
- “The only thing more exhausting than being depressed is pretending that you’re not.” — Unknown
- “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.” — Unknown
- “I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed.” — Katie McGarry
- “Sometimes it’s okay if the only thing you did today was breathe.” — Yumi Sakugawa
- “You are not a burden. You have a burden, which by definition is too heavy to carry on your own.” — Unknown
- “You’re not a bad person for the ways you tried to kill your sadness.” — Unknown
- “Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.” — Rumi
- “Depression is the overwhelming sense of numbness and the desire for anything that can help you make it from one day to the next.” — Unknown
- “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
- “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
- “I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.” — John Keats
- “That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.” — Elizabeth Wurtzel
- “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.” — Nina LaCour
- “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” — Seneca
- “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
- “I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.” — Sylvia Plath
- “I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.” — Henry Rollins