Depression is not only sadness, but sadness is a part of living with depression. These saddest depression quotes express the emotion eloquently. Depression quotes about life illustrate what it feels like to wake up with depression every day. They talk about the isolation, loneliness, and fatigue (among other daily symptoms) that people with depression experience almost daily.
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Depression Quotes
1. “I hate this feeling. Like I’m here, but I’m not. Like someone cares. But they don’t. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here.”
2. “It’s not always the tears that measure the pain. Sometimes it’s the smile we fake.”
3. “You sometimes think you want to disappear, but all you really want is to be found.
4. “Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there’s nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.”
5. “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.”
6. “Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.”
7. “It’s not the feeling of completeness I need, but the feeling of not being empty.”
8. “I’m the type of girl who smiles to make everyone’s day. Even though I’m dying on the inside.”
9. “I wish I could go back to a time when I could smile and it didn’t take everything in me to do it.”
10. “Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.”
11. “Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.”
12. “The worst kind of pain is when you’re smiling just to stop the tears from falling.”
13. “I wish I could go back to a time when I could smile and it didn’t take everything in me to do it.”
14. “I want to tell you how to help me. Could you tell me what I need? I wish I could.”
15. “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.”
16. “My life is just one constant battle between wanting to be alone, but not wanting to be lonely.”
17. “She hurts and she cries. But you can’t see the depression in her eyes. Because she just smiles…”
18. “Depression makes you isolated. It’s very hard to think of other people when you’re wrapped in a prickly blanket of sadness and all you can think about is your own pain.”
19. “I define depression as a comparison of your current reality to a fantasy about how you wish your life would be.”
20. “I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear.
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21. “Depression has nothing to do with having a bad day or being sad.”
22. “You smile, but you wanna cry. You talk, but you wanna be quiet. You pretend like you’re happy but you aren’t.”
23. “Sometimes you just need someone to tell you you’re not as terrible as you think you are.”
24. “Depression isn’t just being a bit sad. It’s feeling nothing. It’s not wanting to be alive anymore.”
25. “People think depression is sadness. People think depression is crying. People think depression is dressing in black. But people are wrong. 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 back to bed again.”
26. “Sometimes just the thought of facing the day feels like broken glass in my soul.”
27. “You hate when people see you cry because you want to be that strong girl. At the same time, though, you hate how nobody notices how torn apart and broken you are.”
28. “Please try not to judge how someone is dealing with a pain you have never experienced.”
29. “I’m not sure if I’m depressed. I mean, I’m not sad, but I’m not exactly happy either. I can laugh and joke and smile during the day, but sometimes when I’m alone at night I forget how to feel.
30. “It all starts with not wanting to get out of bed, that’s how you know you’re getting bad again.”
31. “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.”
32. “You’re not a bad person for the ways you tried to kill your sadness.”
33. “I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about If you loved me you would.”
34. “Sometimes I wonder if I will ever be happy with myself. I worry that if I can’t be happy with myself, then nobody will ever be happy with me.”
35. “I want to be happy but something inside me screams that I do not deserve it.”
36. “Sometimes, what a person needs is not a brilliant mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens.”
37. What is depression like? It’s like drowning. Except you can see everyone around you breathing.”
38. “Depression is the overwhelming sense of numbness and the desire for anything that can help you make it from one day to the next.”
39. “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
40. “Depression is feeling like you’re lost something but having no clue when or where yo
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41. “Saying “I’m tired” when you’re actually sad.”
42. “The only thing more exhausting than being depressed is pretending that you’re not.”
43. “She says she’s fine but she’s going insane. She says she feels good but she’s in a lot of pain. She says it’s nothing but it’s really a lot. she says she’s okay. but really she’s not.”
44. “Because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”
45. “When you are happy, you enjoy the music. but when you are sad, you understand the lyrics.”
46. “I feel so disconnected from the world, and I feel like no one even notices me or cares about me anymore.”
47. “So you try to think of someone else you’re mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.”
48. “It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
49. “So you try to think of someone else you’re mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.”
50. “My body and heart weren’t made for this. I’m tired of being tired and I’m tired of being sad.”
Quotes On Depression And Life
51. “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.”
52. “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
53. “Depression is a flaw in chemistry, not character.”
54. “They ask. “How are you doing?” But what they mean is “Are you over it yet?” My lips say, “Fine, thanks”, but my eyes tell a different story, my heart sings a different tune, and my soul just weeps.”
55. “When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.”
56. “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.”
57. “It’s hard to answer the question “What’s wrong?” when nothing’s right.”
58. “It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there because it’s not sadness.”
59. “Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.”
60. “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 at that moment. I don’t exist.”
