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87 Depression Quotes
1. “Depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show me their badges. I know these guys very well.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
2. “Behind my smile is a hurting heart, behind my laugh I’m falling apart. Look closely at me and you will see, the girl I am, it isn’t me.”
3. “I think one thing is that anybody who’s had to contend with mental illness – whether it’s depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever – actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they’ve had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.” – Kay Redfield Jamison
4. “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
5. “Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern, just the slow erosion of self, as insidious as cancer. And like cancer, it is essentially a solitary experience; a room in hell with only your name on the door”
6. “I don’t think people understand how stressful it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself”.
7. “But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.” – Bob Geldof
8. “What if I feel this way for the rest of my life?”
9. “Everyone thinks I’ve gotten better. I haven’t. I’ve just gotten better at hiding it.”
10. “Depression isn’t always at 3am. Sometimes it happens at 3pm, while you’re with friends and you’re halfway through a laugh”
11. “I’m fine, I’m just tired”. My depression is setting in but I don’t want to bother you with it.”
12. “Depression is the inability to construct a future.” – Rollo May
13. “And then it all started to fall apart. Again…”
14. “It hurts but it’s ok… I’m used to it”
15. “My head is a very dark place”
16. “Depression is not a sign of weakness. It means you’ve been strong for far too long.”
17. “Depression is like a war. You either win or die trying”.
18. “I’m often silent when I’m screaming inside”
19. “And then suddenly I became sad for no reason at all”
20. “You think you want to die but in reality you just want to be saved”
21. “Part of me wants to die tonight, part of me wants it to be an accident and part of me wants somebody to notice and stop me”
22. “Sometimes when I say “I’m okay”, I want someone to look me in the eyes, and say, “I know you’re not”
23. “Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.” – Matt Lucas
24. “At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.” – Dorothy Hamill
25. “The five stages – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance – are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
26. “Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.” – Rob Delaney
27. “To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins.” – Patti Stanger
28. “Depression isn’t about, ‘Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other’, it’s like having the worst flu all day that you just can’t kick.” – Robbie Williams
29. “I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn’t one I’ll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it’s worth it.” – Elizabeth Wurtzel
30. “I’m happy, I would say that I’m one of the happiest people I know but I’ve certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.” – Richard Marx
31. “Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That’s applicable to any kind of depression.” – Judy Collins
32. “You largely constructed your depression. It wasn’t given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.” – Albert Ellis
33. “The deepest fear we have, ‘the fear beneath all fears,’ is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It’s this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.” – Tullian Tchividjian
34. “I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I’m so depressed, or life is terrible.” – Tony Curtis
35. “I have had issues with depression all my life, and it’s probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often – and this is quite common with comics – a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.” – Jack Dee
36. “I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.” – Ji-Hae Park
37. “Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.” – Mariella Frostrup
38. “Depression is living in a body that fights to survive, with a mind that tries to die.”
39. “I’m tired of trying, sick of crying, I know I’ve been smiling, but inside I’m dying.”
40. “Often the people with the strongest hearts carry the heaviest ones.”
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