Before dig into deep of these depressing quotes to know your mental health perfectly article, you should know what depression is like. So at first let me explain depression very shortly.
Every living being has certain emotions that make us cry, happy, angry, etc. All the emotions that we feel are connected with our situations and mental condition. Depression is one of the emotions of all of these emotions. People usually mistake to identify depression with sadness and loneliness. Basically, sadness is a natural habit of mind and sometimes being sadness is not so harmful to health. But depression is deeper than sadness.
When someone feels sadness, loneliness, worries or angriness continuously for a long time, then it can be said as a depressing mental state. It can create problems in our daily life activities. That’s why everybody should know about it.
Sometimes you can’t express your feelings when you are in depression. For that reason, people can treat you wrongly. They might not understand your situation. But if you know about depression before it controls you, then you can easily overcome that period.
Depressing quotes are not medicine but you can easily understand what the depression is like by reading these depressing sayings. Here, I have included 115+ selected hard-line depressing quotes to help you to know it.
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Depressing quotes to know what is depression
1.“Depression is not the same as sadness.” — Unknown
2. “Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.” — Unknown
3. “Depression is being colour-blind and constantly told how colourful the world is.” — Unknown
4. “What is depression like? It’s like drowning, except everyone around you is breathing.” — Unknown
5. “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
6. “Depression exist without you knowing it, even denying it. It is not an illusion. You don’t even know you’re in it. It takes a while before you realize it.” — Unknown
7. “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
8. “Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.” — Unknown
9. “People think depression is sadness. People think depression is crying. People think depression is dressing in black. But people are wrong. Depression is the constant feeling of being numb. Being numb to emotions, being numb to life. You wake up in the morning just to go to bed again.” — Unknown
10. “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.” — Unknown
11. “Depression is about anger, it is about anxiety, it is about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is the illness of those who do not know where they fit, who lose faith in the myths they have so painstakingly created for themselves. […] It is a plague – especially if you add in its various forms of expression, like alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, drug addiction, compulsive behavior of one kind or another. They’re all the same things: attempts to avoid disappearance, or nothingness, or chaos.” — Tim Lott, Scent Of Dried Roses
Most common depressing quotes about how it feels
12. “Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.” — Unknown
13. “Sometimes, you gotta pretend everything is okay” — Unknown
14. “You smile, but you wanna cry. You talk, but you wanna be quiet. You pretend like you’re happy but you aren’t.” — Unknown
15. “No amount of sleep in the world could cure the tiredness I feel” — Unknown
16. “I wanted to talk about it. Damn it. I wanted to scream. I wanted to yell. I wanted to shout about it. But all I could was whisper “I’m fine.” — Unknown
17. “I miss me, the old me, the happy me, the bright me, the smiling me, the laughing me, the gone me.” — Unknown
18. “My lips say, ‘Fine, thanks,‘ but my eyes tell a different story, my heart sings a different tune, and my soul just weeps.” — Unknown
19. “Everytime people ask me if I’m okay, it’s just a reminder that I’m not” — Unknown
20. “I am not using my depression as an excuse. Trust me, I’d give anything to function “normally” on a day to day basis.” — Unknown
21. “Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.” — Edward St. Aubyn, The Patrick Melrose Novels
22. “It feels like everyone else is moving on with their lives while I am stuck here, in this hole that I can’t climb out of.” — Unknown
23. “When you suffer from depression, ‘I’m tired means a permanent state of exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix. Sleep just isn’t sleep anymore—it’s escape.” — Unknown
24. They ask, “How are you doing?” But what they mean is, “Are you over it yet?” — Unknown
25. “I feel so disconnected from the world, and I feel like no one even notices me or cares about me anymore.” — Unknown
26. “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
Depressing quotes about death
27. “Death seems more inviting than life” — Unknown
28. “Depression is like a war. You either win or you die trying. — Unknown
29. “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, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
30. “Death row is a state of mind.” — Doris Ann Foster
31. “Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.” — Donald Rumsfeld
32. “I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?” — Laurie Halse Anderson
33. “The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” — W. M. Lewis
34. “Everything’s plastic, we’re all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.” — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
35. “Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.” — Unknown
36. “Life sucks, and then you die” — Unknown
37. “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, Cat’s Eye
Depressing quotes to refresh yourself again
38. “Hold on to this hope: You can get better from depression.” — Unknown
39. “If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.” — Hippocrates
40. “Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.” — Anne Sexton
41. “No matter how bad things are right now. No matter how stuck you feel. No matter how many days you’ve spent crying and wishing things were different. No matter how hopeless and depressed you feel. I promise you that you won’t feel this way forever. Keep going.” — Unknown
42. “Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.” — Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
43. “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
Depressing quotes to overcome depression
44. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” — Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation
45. “Dear Past, stop tapping me on the shoulders, I don’t wanna look back.” — Unknown
46. “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
47. “Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.” — Jo Nesbo
48. “Instead of wiping your tears, wipe away the people who create them” — Unknown
49. “Be happy — if you’re not even happy, what’s so good about surviving?”
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
50. “I will be stronger than my sadness.” — Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
51. “You will feel better than this, maybe not yet, but you will. You just keep living until you are alive again.” — Unknown
Depressing quotes about love
52. “If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn’t spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.” — Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
53. “It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you’ll never stop loving them.” — Sam Smith
54. “I don’t hate you for loving you. I just hate my heart for choosing someone like you.” — Jim Kerry
55. “You think being dead inside is bad until someone brings you back to life and stabs you in the chest without the intention of killing you.” — Denice Envall
56. “The first time I saw her, everything in my head went quiet.” — Neil Hilborn
57. “I miss you in waves and tonight I’m drowning. You left me fending for my life and it feels like you’re the only one who can bring me back to the shore alive.” — Denice Envall
58. “I want someone to be afraid of losing me. No one has and I don’t think no one ever will.” — Unknown
59. “I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.” — Jennifer Elisabeth
Depression quotes about relationship breakup
60. “You have no idea how worthless you made me feel.” — Unknown
61. “Deep inside where nothing’s fine, I’ve lost my mind.” — Unknown
62. “Rain makes me feel less alone. All rain is, is a cloud- falling apart, and pouring its shattered pieces down on top of you. It makes me feel good to know I’m not the only thing that falls apart . It makes me feel better to know other things in nature can shatter.” — Lone Alaskan Gypsy
63. “I’m falling apart right in front of your eyes but you don’t even see me.” — Unknown
64. “There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.” — Unknown
65. “Stop asking me to trust you while I’m still coughing up water from the last time you let me drown.” — Unknown
Depression quotes about feeling broken
66. “I’m broken” — Unknown
67. “…the heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
68. “And something inside me just…broke…That’s the only way I could describe it.” — Unknown
69. “Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It’s just too much for them.” — Phoebe Stone, The Boy on Cinnamon Street
70. “Every thought is a battle. Every breath is a war, and I don’t think I’m winning anymore.” — Unknown
71. “Today my forest is dark. The trees are sad and all the butterflies have broken wings.” — Unknown
72. “For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people’s faces.” — Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
73. “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” — Unknown
74. “And something inside me just…broke…That’s the only way I could describe it.” — Unknown
Depressing quotes about life’s truth
75. “Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
76. “Someone once said that death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live. I could tell you who said it, but who the hell really cares.” —Haley James Scott, One tree hill
77. “We hide to try our feelings, but we forget that out eyes speak.” — Unknown
78. “I wanted to write down exactly what I felt but somehow the paper stayed empty and I could not have described it any better.” — Unknown
79. “At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.” — Unknown
80. “We hide to try our feelings, but we forget that out eyes speak.” — Unknown
81. “Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.” — Janet Fitch
82. “The worst kind of pain is when you’re smiling just to stop the tears for falling.” — Unknown
Depressing quotes about reality
83. “The only thing standing between me and total happiness is reality” — Unknown
84. “It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness.” — Unknown
85. “Crying is how your heart peaks, when your lips can’t explain the pain you feel.” — Unknown
86. “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
87. “When you’re depressed you don’t control your thoughts, your thoughts control you. I wish people would understand this.” — Unknown
88. “Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to suffer so much. Don’t talk about how nothing feels real, how everything is coated with gelatin and shining like oil in the sun. I don’t want to hear about the tiger in the corner or the Angel of Death or the phone calls from John the Baptist.” — Susanna Kaysen
89. “What people never understand is that depression isn’t about the outside; it’s about the inside.” — Unknown
90. “Being alone with your feelings is the worst because you have nowhere to run.” — Unknown
91. “My silence is just another word for my pain.” — Unknown
92. “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
Depressing quotes about sadness
93. “Today my forest is dark. The trees are sad and all the butterflies have broken wings.” — Unknown
94. “I’m not even a person anymore. I’m just stress and sadness.” — Unknown
95. “Please try not to judge how someone is dealing with a pain you have never experienced.” — Unknown
96. “Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there’s nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.” — Unknown
97. “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” — Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral’s Kiss
98. “My body and heart weren’t made for this. I’m tired of being tired and I’m tired of being sad.” — Unknown
99. “I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can’t get away from it.” — Unknown
100. “Sometimes I get so sad. So sad that I completely shut down. I stare blankly at the wall and it doesn’t matter what you say to me. Because in that moment. I don’t exist.” — Unknown
Depressing quotes by famous persons
101. “Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
102. “The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I’ll never be as good as a wall.” — Mitch Hedberg
103. “I can’t think of anything when I’m depressed. I just want to be alone.” — James Smith
104. “My motto: ‘No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.” — Roger Ebert
105. “I’m just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.” — Malcolm Gladwell
106. “Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.” — Pythagoras
107. “Breakups just hit you harder when you’re younger. When I was a teenager, it felt like the most depressing thing in the world if a boy I was infatuated with didn’t like me back.” — Ellie Goulding
108. “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
109. “Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent ” — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
110. “It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There’s no personality involved.” — Olivia Wilde
111. “That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.” — Ernest Hemingway
112. “When people don’t know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.” — Marion Cotillard
113. “Wanting to be happy is not the worst thing in the world, but wanting it badly enough to make us depressed is. — John Washington
114. “My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realized that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing. — Kangana Ranaut
115. “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
116. “I’m actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it’s a depressing word. I don’t want to hope – I want to know. Like I don’t hope there’s a God, I know there’s a God. — Kelly Clarkson
117. “I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed.” — Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits
Final thoughts
Life is full of ups and downs. We never know what is coming next. The uncertainty is the nature of life. Everyone in this world has to face bad times as well as good moments. So don’t think that this is happening only to you.
If you are in depression, then read these depressing quotes again to understand it properly. You can read good books, watch movies, try to find out the meaning in the wise quotes, motivational quotes, etc. Spending quality time with friends and family makes you more comfortable and strong. So let go of everything, do your own job. That is the way to live a normal life.
I hope, all of these depressing quotes have helped you. Did you find any quotes that match your thoughts? Let me know. Comment below and share with your friends if you think it will help them.
