120 Depression Quotes That Will Relate To Sadness And Anxiety

Looking for quotes about depression? Here is a collection of some famous depression quotes, captions, status messages, (with images and pictures), that will make you realize that you are not alone in this battle and the one who feels this way, everyone does.

Depression is a common mental health condition that affects millions of people worldwide and can be incredibly debilitating and challenging to overcome.

Depression quotes are phrases and sayings meant to comfort and encourage individuals who are experiencing feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and despair.

These quotes aim to provide hope and inspiration to those who are struggling with depression, reminding them that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

However, these quotes are not to make you feel more depressed but to make you realize that pain and hardships are the reality of life and we all need to face them and come out strong. #depressionquotes

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Most depressed people feel isolated and don’t speak and share about their battle with depression, their feeling of anxiety, or the sadness that fills them, and their life. They get crushed under this lonely emotional state.

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It’s important to share your feelings and fears with your loved ones and seek professional consultancy if you think you can’t get on a positive note.

Some popular depression quotes include phrases like “the dark night of the soul,” “this too shall pass,” and “hope is the thing with feathers.”

Don’t forget to check out our collection of feeling-down quotes and sad quotes that you can relate to.

Top 10 Depression Quotes

1. “I’ll be okay just not today, and probably not tomorrow.”― Unknown

   
2. “You will never understand the hell I feel inside my head.”―Unknown 

   

3. “Deep inside where nothing is fine I have lost my mind.”―Unknown           

   

4. “When you’re depressed you don’t control your thoughts, your thoughts control you. I wish people understood that.”―Unknown

   

5. “Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.” ― Atticus, Love Her Wild

   

6. “What people don’t understand is that depression isn’t about the outside; it’s about the inside.”― Jasmine Warga                   

   

7. “Listen closely to the songs I play because the lyrics speak the words I fail to say.” ― Unknown       

   

8. “Depression isn’t just being a bit sad. It’s feeling nothing. It’s not wanting to be alive anymore.” ― J.K. Rowling       

   

9. “They tell me I’m not trying but how would they know.”– Unknown
10. “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” – John Green

Quotes About Depression

1. “We repeat what we don’t repair”— Unknown
2. “I am fading away, and no one is noticing”— Unknown
3. “The only way I stop from breaking is by hiding.” — Unknown
4. “I am laughing and smiling but on the inside, I am dying.” — Unknown
5. “Keeping a lot to myself, because it is hard to find someone who understands”— Unknown
6. “It is that feeling when you are not necessarily sad, but just really empty.”— Unknown
7. “My forest is dark, the trees are sad, and all the butterflies have broken wings.”— Raine Cooper
8. “My thoughts are destroying me. I try not to think, but the silence is a killer too.”— Unknown
9. “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.”— Jeffery Eugenides
10. “I wanted to talk about it. Damn it. I wanted to scream. I wanted to yell. I wanted to shout. But all I could was whisper “I’m fine.”— Unknown

Quotes For Depression

1. “And then it all started to fall apart. Again…”— Unknown
2. “I really want to talk to someone about my thoughts and feelings but I can’t.”— Unknown
3. When people don’t know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.” – Marion Cotillard
4. “There are times when explanations, no matter how reasonable, just don’t seem to help.” ― Fred Rogers
5. “Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.” ― Dorothy Rowe
6. “It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there because it’s not sadness.”― J.K Rowling
7. “Depression, panic attacks, and anxiety are not signs of being weak. They are signs that a person has been strong for too long.” — Unknown
8. “Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.” ― Jasmine Warga
9. “Feelings seem vague, everything seems dreary. You feel like doing nothing, and somehow that feeling is the only thing you seem to understand.”— Unknown
10. “Depression isn’t a war you win. It’s a battle you fight every day. You never stop, and never get to rest. It’s one bloody fray after another.” ― Shaun David Hutchinson

Depressing Quotes

1. “I feel like such a disappointment.”― Unknown
2. “I am not living. I am surviving.”― Unknown
3. “Saying “I’m tired” when you’re actually sad.”―Unknown
4. “I feel like I bother people just by being alive.”― Unknown
5. “I’m often silent when I’m screaming inside.”―Unknown
6. “It’s not just an average case of “the blues.”―Unknown
7. “What if I feel this way for the rest of my life?”―Unknown
8. “Sometimes, you gotta pretend everything is okay.”―Unknown
9. “And then suddenly I became sad for no reason at all.”― Unknown
10. “I’m exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel.”― Unknown

Sad Quotes On Depression

1. “I’m fine, I’m just tired”―Unknown
2. “Sleep doesn’t help, if it’s your soul that’s tired.”― Unknown
3. “Depression is the inability to construct a future.” ― Rollo May
4. “To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins.” – Patti Stanger
5. “Often the people with the strongest hearts carry the heaviest ones.”―Unknown
6. “My life is just one constant battle between wanting to be alone, but not wanting to be lonely.”―Unknown
7. “You sometimes think you want to disappear, but all you really want is to be found.” ― Kid Cudi
8. “The only thing more exhausting than being depressed is pretending that you’re not.”― Unknown
9. “What is depression like? It’s like drowning, except everyone around you is breathing.”―Unknown
10. “My lips say, ‘Fine, thanks,‘ but my eyes tell a different story, my heart sings a different tune, and my soul just weeps.”―Unknown

Motivational Quotes For Depression

1. “I need the pain to know I still exist.” — Unknown
2. “Everything that drowned me taught me how to swim.” — Jenim Dibie
3. “In the darkest time, I have always believed, the light will shine.” — Laila Akita
4. “In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer”— Albert Camus
5. “I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you’re not alone.” — Dwayne Johnson
6. “You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” – Dan Millman
7. “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
8. “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.” — Anonymous
9. “Just because all you see is suffering does not mean that overcoming it is out of the question.” — Anonymous
10. “I have depression. But I prefer to say, ‘I battle’ depression instead of ‘I suffer’ from it. Because depression hits, but I hit back. Battle on.” — Anonymous

Depression Inspirational Quotes

These quotes offer a source of encouragement and support, reminding individuals that they have the strength and resilience to overcome their struggles.

1. “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ― Rumi
2. “I cannot be helped until I can accept myself.” — Anonymous
3. “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” ― Christopher Reeve
4. “My cuts are just evidence of the hell I go through.” — Anonymous
5. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius
6. “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” ― Richard Bach
7. “Give yourself another day, another chance. You will find your courage eventually. Don’t give up on yourself just yet.”— Unknown
8. “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
9. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” ― Helen Keller
10. “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
11. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” ― Kahlil Gibran

Depression Quotes That Hit Hard

1. “At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.” – Dorothy Hamill
2. “I want to be happy but something inside me screams that I do not deserve it.”― Unknown
3. “It’s not always the tears that measure the pain. Sometimes it’s the smile we fake.”― Unknown
4. “Nothing is more depressing than despite the fact of having it all but still feeling empty.” – Unknown
5. “Sometimes you feel sad without any reason. And you can’t help it. And you can’t deal with it.” – Unknown
6. “The worst feeling in life is not being lonely; it’s being forgotten by the one person you could never forget.” ― Unknown
7. “It’s a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor never knowing when the light will go on.” — Neil Lennon
8. “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.” ― Unknown
9. “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
10. “The feeling when someone asks you if you’re okay and just want to cry every little thing in your life because everything you but everything you say is just: I’m fine.”― Unknown

Short Depression Quotes and Sayings

Depression quotes come from a variety of sources, including well-known authors, poets, and philosophers, as well as everyday people who have experienced depression and have found comfort and solace in these words.

1. “You may look happy to others. You may laugh at jokes, dance with others, sing along to songs, but inside, you still feel sad. Internally, you still feel lifeless.” ― Unknown

   

2. “I don’t think people realize how much strength it takes to pull your own self out of a dark place mentally. So if you’ve done that today or any day I’m proud of you.”―Unknown

   

3. I’m slowly giving up.

   

4. I hide all my scars with an “I’m fine”.

   

5. “My head is a very dark place.”

   

6. “They call it depression, I call it war.”

   

7. “I feel lost inside of myself.”

   

8. “It hurts but it’s ok… I’m used to it.”

   

9. “My silence is just another word for my pain.”

   

10. “Depression is feeling dead but not being able to die.”

    

11. “Depression is like war. You either win or you die trying. There’s no in between.” ― Kota

    

12. “I’m exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel.”― Unknown

    

13. “The worst kind of sad is not being able to explain why.” ― Unknown

    

14. “If you could read my mind, You’d  be in TEARS.”― Unknown

    

15. “She was drowning, but nobody saw her struggle.”― Unknown

    

16. “Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.” ― Steven Wright          

    

17. “Have you ever been so sad that it physically hurts inside.”

    

18. “Depression is living in a body that fights to survive, with a mind that tries to die.”

    

19. “I’m tired of trying, sick of crying, I know I’ve been smiling, but inside I’m dying.”

    

Depression Dark Quotes

1. “Depressions may bring people closer to family but so do funerals.”― Unknown
2. “They ask, “How are you doing?” But what they mean is, “Are you over it yet?”― Unknown
3. “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” ― J.K. Rowling
4. “Everyone thinks I’ve gotten better. I haven’t. I’ve just gotten better at hiding it.”― Unknown
5. “The worst kind of pain is when you’re smiling just to stop the tears from falling.” ― Hiro Mashima
6. I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”― Henry Rollins
7. “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.”
8. “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” ― Laurell K. Hamilton
9. “The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can’t get away from it. Not ever.” ― Nina LaCour
10. “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
11. “Depression is a 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

Famous Quotes About Being Depressed

1. “I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colors and shades I knew existed.” ― Katie McGarry
2. “During your battle with depression, it is important to remember that someday, sometime you will feel better. Someday you would feel awake and alive instead of wanting to feel awake and alive.”
3. “Depression engulfs all your thoughts. The world seems like a dark place, with no hope, no light. Other things which seemed interesting once now seem dull and hopeless.”
4. “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 W. Longfellow
5. “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
6. “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
7. “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.” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel
8. “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
9. “A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you’re in a room full of a million people.” — Lilly Singh
10. “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

Sad Depression Quotes About Life and Love

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1. “That feeling when you’re not necessarily sad, but you just feel really empty.”

   

2. “Sometimes when I say “I’m okay”, I want someone to look me in the eyes, and say, “I know you’re not.”

   

3. “Depression isn’t always at 3 am. Sometimes it happens at 3 pm, while you’re with friends and you’re halfway through a laugh.”— Unknown

   

4. “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.”— 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. “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
7. “Having anxiety and depression is like being scared and tired at the same time. It’s the fear of failure, but no urge to be productive. It’s wanting friends, but hate socializing. It’s wanting to be alone, but not wanting to be lonely. It’s feeling everything at once then feeling paralyzingly numb.” – Anonymous

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