Depression Quotes and Messages

Some people suffer in silence, pain in the hearts but smiles on their faces.

Therapy gives you another perspective when you are so lost in your own spiral, it helps.

Feeling your feelings will not lead to depression.

The scientific evidence is clear that exercise significantly reduces depression and anxiety.

What people never understand is that depression isn’t about the outside; it’s about the inside.

Make peace with your past so it won’t destroy your present.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Do not become bitter or hostile. Be hopeful, be optimistic.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Depressed means you need deep rest from the character you’ve been playing in the world.

Depression isn’t a war you win. It’s a battle you fight every day.

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.

With depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you’re not alone.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms – the animation, the fits.

Real change will come about not as a result of prayer, but of using intelligence and taking action.

Living in the past will make you feel depressed.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Keep searching for the colors when everything turns gray.

It ain’t our choice to be sad, But it’s our duty to not let depression bite into us

Some people are silently struggling with burdens that would break our backs.

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

There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.

I don’t feel very much like Pooh today.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

There’s nothing weak about struggling with mental illness.

Depression is a kind of constricted consciousness.”

I got a monster within . . . my own self!

I mustn’t run away.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

The shadows are as important as the light.

The difference between hope and despair is the ability to believe in tomorrow.

Frustrations come because we impose our illusions on reality.

Never give up. Have hope. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it.

To heal a wound you must stop scratching it.

Do not stumble on something behind you.

Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.

All of our miseries are nothing but attachment.

The only journey is the journey within.

Don’t let your struggle become your identity.

The act of releasing your shame is – in itself – healing.

Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.

When you don’t know what you need, you want everything.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Love your future more than your past.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Real change requires a desire to change.

You have to take responsibility for your own happiness.

You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past.

Today’s hot pain is tomorrow’s cold wisdom.

A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms.

A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you’re in a room full of a million people.

The only thing more exhausting than being depressed is pretending that you’re not.

Recovery is not a competition.