Quotes and Sayings about Depression

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, surrounded by a-sholes.

(often misattributed to William Gibson or Sigmund Freud)

If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.

Nikki Sixx

When you feel sad, it's okay. It's not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there's those days when you feel like Superman. It's just the balance of the world.

Mac Miller

Superman Beginning

This skull between my ears, that is a bad neighbourhood. I should not be in there alone.

Chester Bennington

I do have a tendency to walk on the dark side sometimes. I have suffered from depression, I know how that feels, I have an innate inclination that way. Writing does help with that.

Joanne K. Rowling - September 2012

Writing

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

Kevin Gates

Music

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

Dick Cavett

Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

Adam Ant

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

Adam Ant

I'm always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed.

Terry Bradshaw

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

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

John Steinbeck

Grief & Condolence Illness & Sickness

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

John Steinbeck

Rain

Doctors kept stressing that mental disease was the same as physical disease. Telling someone who was clinically depressed, for example, to shake it off and get out of the house was tantamount to telling a man with two broken legs to sprint across the room. That was all well and good in theory, but in practice, the stigma continued. Maybe, to be more charitable, it was because you could hide a mental disease.

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

Nick Hornby in High Fidelity

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer.

Ricky Gervais

Cancer

The things lurking around inside the mind can be just as dangerous as tangible threats.

Colleen Hoover in Verity

The other thing about depression is it kind of collapses time. Suddenly, you find your whole days blending together to create one endless and suffocating loop. So you find yourself trying to remember the things that made you happy. But slowly, your brain begins to erase every memory that ever brought you joy. And eventually, all you can think about is how life has always been this way. And will only continue to be this way.

Rue Bennett in Euphoria

The absolute worst part of depression is that even though you know you're depressed, You're unable to stop yourself from getting worse.

Rue Bennett in Euphoria

You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for.

Wentworth Miller

If you're out there and need help, please seek it! Be proud of your valiant day-to-day struggle. There is no shame in needing support.

Jared Padalecki

I think we have to monitor our minds the way we need to monitor our bodies.

Natalie Dormer

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Thoughts

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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

Charles Bukowski

Solitude & Loneliness

You mean well, but leave me be
Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free

Elsa in Frozen -

Solitude & Loneliness Introvertierte Sprüche

If we are all alone, then that's also somthing we have together.

Cecelia Ahern in P.S. I Love You

Solitude & Loneliness

Because nothing sucks more than feeling all alone, no matter how many people are around.

J.D. in Scrubs - Season 2 Episode 18

Solitude & Loneliness

If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Life Friendship Solitude & Loneliness

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

Life Optimism Dancing Rain Positive Quotes

Nothing's gonna save our lifes, so... we're breathing borrowed air.

Will Newman in Five Feet Apart

Positive Quotes

I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it.

Johnny Depp

Moments Positive Quotes

You see things; and you say 'Why?"
But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw

Dreaming Optimism Positive Quotes

You have to work your hardest and stay positive. Then you've got a shot at the silver lining.

Pat in Silver Linings

Positive Quotes

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

Adam Ant

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

John Steinbeck

Advice

It wasn't the violence that scared her. It was the fact that she knew no matter what he did, she'd still love him.

Rue Bennett in Euphoria - Season 1 Episode 5

I'm just saying, love is a million things.

Maddy Perez in Euphoria

See, if the bullets don't work, right, why the punching? I just never understood that.

Superman in Supergirl - Season 2 Episode 2

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

Nikki Sixx

Addiction

I'm from a city that you hear and think a bunch of steel
So a hundred mills wouldn't make me sign a f*cking deal

Mac Miller - The Star Room, Album: Watching Movies With The Sound Off

In the beginning of a jorney, no one knows what to expect. They might have a vague idea the road ahead could be rough. That's what makes new beginnings so exciting. You don't know what will happen until it's over.

Sam Gardner in Atypical - Season 4

Beginning

You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.

Chester Bennington

Ambition

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne K. Rowling

Hogwarts

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems

I don't really like talking. I like to execute. I'm not a talking person. I'm an action person.

Kevin Gates

Taking action Talking

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Jonathan Safran Foer in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Music Sad Quotes

I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.

Dick Cavett

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

Terry Bradshaw

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

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