May these Depression quotes give you the inspiration to get better in your life. Did you know about Depression? Do you know how bad this Depression can be?
Depression is a constant feeling of sadness and loss of interest for those who don’t know anything about it, which stops you from doing your normal activities. For your information, Depression can happen to anyone at some point in their life regardless of who they are.
Whether they are an ordinary person, famous person or even the world’s richest man can also be depressed. You may think that it’s a normal emotion just like the others, but then it’s not!
If there are people around you who feel depressed, never abandon them. Talk to them, cheer them up and if their condition worsens, bring them to the doctor. And if you are the one who feels depressed, never be alone.
Share your problem with your loved ones, or if you don’t want to, you can go and see a doctor. Thus, to help you in the fight against Depression, here are 60 Quotes related to Depression for you;
Best Depression Quotes
“Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.” – Matt Lucas
“Depression is the inability to construct a future.” – Rollo May
“In my life I’ve gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame it because I just decided to be happy.” – Lilly Singh
“If you don’t think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.” – Kris Carr
“There isn’t anybody out there who doesn’t have a mental health issue, whether it’s depression, anxiety, or how to cope with relationships. Having OCD is not an embarrassment anymore – for me. Just know that there is help and your life could be better if you go out and seek the help.” – Howie Mandel
“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
“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
“You don’t think in depression that you’ve put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you’re seeing truly.”
– Andrew Solomon
“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
“I’ve always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you’re down can actually make you feel less depressed. Also, even though a person may have problems with depression, sometimes you can actually be kind of comfortable in that space because you know how to operate within it.” – Chris Cornell
“Mental health can be just as important as physical health – and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.” – Michael Greger
“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
“We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain – grief, despair, depression, dementia – is less accessible to treatment. It’s connected to who we are – our personality, our character, our soul, if you like.” – Richard Eyre
“A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.” – Janet Fitch
“I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.”
– Dwayne Johnson
“I suffer from anxiety, moments of depression. I’m in my head so much, and I’m thinking so much, I’m playing tug-of-war within my mind.” – Khalid
“Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful.” – Giles Andreae
“Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.” – Joyce Meyer
“Being sad and being depressed are two different things. Also, people going through depression don’t look so, while someone sad will look sad. The most common reaction is, ‘How can you be depressed? You have everything going for you. You are the supposed number one heroine and have a plush home, car, movies… What else do you want?” – Deepika Padukone
“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.” – Grenville Keiser
“When I get anxiety and depression and things like that, I take to eating.” – Jorge Masvidal
“I think if there’s a great depression there might be some hope.”
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.” – Jeanette Winterson
“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
“I’ve been told to ‘man up’ after talking about depression on Twitter. Man up means ‘be strong because that’s what a man is.’ And they don’t just mean physical strength, they mean emotional strength. What, because men get into fights or go to wars to fight? It should be ‘woman up.’” – Limmy
“Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I’ve made that commitment for my life’s sake and for the sake of those who love me.” – Susan Polis Schutz
“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.” – Pythagoras
“I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.” – Christopher Hitchens
“When I am not acting, I am in depression, and then I do depression management.”
– Akshaye Khanna
“A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you’re in a room full of a million people.” – Lilly Singh
“Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what’s going on in the external world. It’s not like something sad happens to you and then you feel sad. Good things happen, but you feel sad anyway.” – Graham Moore
“Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.” – Gloria Steinem
“Depression has been called the world’s number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.” – David D. Burns
“I had bad anxiety and bad depression. That’s like the worst thing you could have. You think too much about the past, you get depression. You think too much about the future, you get anxiety.” – NLE Choppa
“I’m not grateful for depression, but it honestly made me work harder and gave me the drive that I have to succeed and to make it work.”
– Lili Reinhart
“Don’t be scared to look for help. Depression is real… It’s crazy, and all these guys, us athletes, keep thinking we’re superheroes. I like to think I’m a superhero, but superheroes have to fight their demons, too, sometimes.” – Max Holloway
“It’s ‘depression’. You can’t put it into words. You get stuck and time passes by. I’m standing there on the edge of a cliff, can’t go back and can’t go forward. Days go by. I’m still in the same place. Everyone else’s life goes on, but you’re stuck. You try and try and try and I don’t know how, but you came out of it eventually.” – Kell Brook
“I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.” – Leonard Cohen
“People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, and their families feel a sense of shame about it, which doesn’t help. One needs support and understanding. I am now working on an initiative to create awareness about anxiety and depression and help people.” – Deepika Padukone
“The reason so many intelligent and creative people suffer from depression is that when you take the risk of being fully conscious, you open Pandora’s box, and you can’t close it again.” – Michael Redhill
“Depression is something that doesn’t just go away. It’s just… there and you deal with it. It’s like… malaria or something. Maybe it won’t be cured, but you’ve got to take the medication you’re prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.” – Adam Ant
“To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins.”
– Patti Stanger
“In total, I was diagnosed with depression by eight psychotherapists and psychiatrists over a period of thirteen years. Diagnosed wrong. Absolutely wrong. My accurate diagnosis was manic depression, or what we call bipolar disorder today.” – Andy Behrman
“When people don’t know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.” – Marion Cotillard
“I don’t think of depression as contagious. Other depressed people challenge the idea – which can be very persistent and irritating – that there is something odd about you: that you are unique with regard to this wretched state.” – Spike Milligan
“Every time you feel depressed about something, try to identify a corresponding negative thought you had just prior to and during the depression. Because these thoughts have actually created your bad mood, by learning to restructure them, you can change your mood.” – David D. Burns
“I was getting depressed, I was going out, having a few drinks and the worst thing you can do with depression is add alcohol to it.” – Ricky Hatton
“A lot of people don’t realize that depression is an illness. I don’t wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.” – Jonathan Davis
“Depression is rage spread thin.”
– George Santayana
“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
“Mental illness lives all around us every day. I’ve seen it in other family members, I’ve seen it in friends, and I’ve dealt with it myself with my own postpartum depression.” – Rachel Hollis
“All behavioral or mood disorders – including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction – have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.” – Jeffrey Kluger
“They say depression is just anger turned inward. Sometimes I turn it outwards, sometimes I turn it inward, but I know it’s about self-worth.” – Vic Mensa
“Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.” – Dick Cavett
“It does not mean you’re broken to have depression and anxiety. I would encourage you to speak out. Don’t hold it inside. Talk to friends. Talk to parents. If it’s available, go to a therapist.” – Dan Reynolds
The mental health conversation is very important to me. I have friends that struggle with various mental illnesses. I’ve struggled with depression and anxiety. I’m very interested in how we deal with that.” – Matthew Quick
“For many people who face anxieties, depression, trauma or grief that dominate their lives, a vital source of support may be a counsellor or psychotherapist.”
– Luciana Berger
“Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.” – David D. Burns
“For those suffering from depression, I know how dark and endless that tunnel can feel. But if happiness seems impossible to find, please hold on to the possibility of hope, faint though it may be.” – Zelda Williams
