Depression Quotes

• I think I'm afraid of being happy because whenever I get too happy something bad always happens.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Thinking, Happens

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• I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else.

  Spencer Tracy

  Tired, Pretending, Fine

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• There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sad, Pain, Hurtful

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• Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.

  J. K. Rowling

  Feeling Down, Feelings, Feeling Sad

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• No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Never judge someone. Especially if you don't know them, because you don't know what they're going through. And for all you know, your words could be the last thing they hear before they decide they have had enough.

  Danny O'Donoghue

  Judging, Decision, Feelings

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• I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tired

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• You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

  Dan Millman

  Inspirational, Recovery, Anxious Thoughts

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• If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. 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

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sympathy

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• Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

  Dorothy Rowe

  Inspirational, Depressing, Psychology

  Dorothy Rowe (2003). “Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison”, p.1, Psychology Press

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• I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.

  Stephen Fry

  May, Mental Illness

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• Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

  Mason Cooley

  Courage, Bipolar, Bed

  "City Aphorisms: First Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1984.

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• As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

  Stephen Fry

  Bipolar, Mind, Dying

  "Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Sight, Fog, Long

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Cancer, Sadness, Depressed Person

  Barbara KingSolver (1988). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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• 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

  Happiness, Feelings, Guilty

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• 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

  Hurt, Mind, Bruises

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• If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Sad, Moving, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from May 29, 2011

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• 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

  Pain, Heart, Broken

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• Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Life, Sleep, Nightmare

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.

  Michael Schenker

  Sight, Loses

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  Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.

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• 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. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lying, Stupid, Self Worth

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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• Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

  John Piper

  Waiting, Darkness, Despair

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