Depressed Quotes

“I have never really believed in a smiling face. They might just be hiding their pain. I mean look at me, I smile all the time.”
― Esosa Kolawole, Fib and the Axe of Fury

“That’s the trouble with serious illness, and depression, you can’t imagine being well – like on a cold day you can’t imagine warmth – you live in the everlasting dread-filled moment.”
― Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

“Nothing made me happy.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“When your heart cries because it wants to be free,
But your mind feels as though it is stuck in concrete.

This is the reality of those who suffer depression and mental health issues.”
― Gillian Duce

“Pretending to be passionate when we are truly depressed doesn’t help. Numbing our feelings only makes things worse. Depression taught me to experience all of my feelings and not push them aside.”
― Yong Kang Chan, The Emotional Gift: Memoir of a Highly Sensitive Person Who Overcame Depression

“Count Your Blessings And Not Your Depressings”
― John M Sheehan

“Things I need: The Californian sunshine. A more convincing smile.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“Blocking our feelings and pretending they aren’t there doesn’t mean they don’t exist.”
― Yong Kang Chan, The Emotional Gift: Memoir of a Highly Sensitive Person Who Overcame Depression

“I am just a past with no present.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“Depression often transforms the will to live into the will to leave (the world).”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“She was all too sunk in the inevitable, and the abysmal.”
― Henry James, The Wings of the Dove

“The heat finally left space for breathing and crisp air. The trees undressed and coloured the streets and I found myself changing with the season. I so badly wanted to be that force of nature, that fire no one can touch, but I was tired. Tired, tired, tired, of being me and if I had one inch of energy to be something beautiful, I would have, but all I could care about was to make it home before it got dark.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“Oh Irina, there's so much life for us."

"Is there? I feel I have no life. There's nothing in front of me but a black wall.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“You don’t have to look at me like that.”
He frowned, scrunching his nose as if she had said something particularly unpleasant. “Like what?”
“Like I’m made of glass, and you’re deciding where to put me that’ll damage me the least.”
― Kayla Krantz, Rise at Twilight

“You are sad."

"I am always sad.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“He felt sad, sad.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“And from that day on
everything under the sun and moon
made me sad—”
― Jane Kenyon

“I have never really believed in a smiling face. They might just be hiding a pain. I mean look at me, I smile all the time.”
― Esosa Kolawole, Fib and the Axe of Fury

“Telling a person who is depressed to have positive thoughts is the same as telling a sick person not to be sick. It doesn’t work.”
― Yong Kang Chan, The Emotional Gift: Memoir of a Highly Sensitive Person Who Overcame Depression

“Depression is usually the result of focusing on a negative thought or situation way more often and for way longer than usual.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“मुझे शर्मसार कर के समेटा गया है
मेरा वज़ूद पूरी तरह कुरेदा गया है
(विनीत)

MUJHE SHARMSAR KAR KE SAMETA GAYA HAI
MERA WAZOOD POORI TARAH KUREDA GAYA HAI

I HAVE BEEN EMBARRASSED INTO SUBMISSION
MY EXISTENCE HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY SCRUTINIZED”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“A wounded person must examine the poverty of his or her untidy emotions in order to ascertain the archeological roots of their festering misery.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Your world needs you right now; don't take your life. You matter, you are enough, and you are more.”
― Olawale Daniel

“Someone can take away my job, but they can only take away my courage if I let them.”
― Yong Kang Chan, The Emotional Gift: Memoir of a Highly Sensitive Person Who Overcame Depression

“Every depression medication that I tried would eventually make me more fatigued and depressed!”
― Steven Magee

“So tonight i come upon a picture of us,
And you don't understand how much i even missed you.
I could have even called,
But obviously i didn't.”
― The Fallen Demon

“You are . . . depressed? Bored?"

"Are there other feelings?”
― Andrew Martin, Early Work

“Depressed? Welcome to my world.”
― Steven Magee

“In fact, studies show that the people with the most accurate self-perceptions tend to be moderately depressed, suffer from low self-esteem, or both. An overly positive self-evaluation, on the other hand, is considered normal and healthy.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior

“I don't cry. I refuse to get depressed or overwhelmed. Feelings like these are for people who don't have such elaborate to-do lists.”
― Janine Urbaniak Reid, The Opposite of Certainty: Fear, Faith, and Life in Between