Depression Quotes

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

"I felt a funeral, in my brain, / And mourners to and fro / Kept treading - treading - till it seemed / That Sense was breaking through."

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

"It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling—that really hollowed-out feeling."

"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."

"My mind is like a bad neighborhood, I try not to go there alone."

"Depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying."

"Depression is the inability to construct a future."

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

"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'."

"I need one of those long hugs where you kinda forget whatever else is happening around you for a minute."

"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."

"I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week."

"Living with anxiety, turning up, and doing stuff with anxiety takes a strength most people will never know."

"Depression lies. It tells you you’ve always felt this way, and you always will. But you haven’t, and you won’t."

"There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold—with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer."

"At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals, in the procession of the seasons."