45 Depression Quotes On Mental Health To Help You Feel Understood

Depression causes the persistent feeling of sadness and/or loss of interest in activities which were enjoyable before, and causes significant disability in functioning in daily life. Here are some depression quotes and sayings, which will give you an insight into what depression is, and what it is like. Things may be bad right now.

Learning how to deal with depression can be a step towards finding hope and reclaiming joy in your life. You may seem stuck in it. You may have cried for days, wished for it to be different, but just not the way it is. You may feel hopeless now.

You may be holding on to anything which makes you go through the day. But promise, this isn’t how it is going to be forever. Keep going, keep fighting.

Depression is a lot like that: Slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearable. But you won’t even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getting older, about turning eight or turning twelve or turning fifteen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot on the white terrain of human existence.

- Unknown

Certainly there is such a thing as chemical depression, and for that, obviously, there are issues that psychotherapists are much more expert at speaking to, but I think there is a low-grade depression that actually prevails in our society. And most of us feel it.

- Marianne Williamson

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

- Leonard Cohen

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

- Leonard Cohen

I did not throw out my education lightly, but what I was being taught was of no use in explaining what I saw around me. It was the Great Depression.

- Paul Samuelson

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

- Pythagoras

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

- Jesse Jackson

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you're not alone.

- Dwayne Johnson

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

- Gloria Steinem

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

- Ray Bradbury

I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.

- S. Truett Cathy

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

- Ronald Reagan

In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.

- S. Truett Cathy

I've suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

- Lady Gaga

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

- Kevin Gates

Saddest Depression Quotes For You

There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.

- Ben Carson

By 1939, the Depression was back. Unemployment was huge. Roosevelt didn't have any quick fix. Remember, the New Deal, Works Progress Administration, and Civilian Conservation Corps - all that happened years before. Roosevelt was riding a storm.

- Gore Vidal

I don't think of depression as contagious. Other depressed people challenge the idea - which can be very persistent and irritating - that there is something odd about you: that you are unique with regard to this wretched state.

- Spike Milligan

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

- Herbert Hoover

Our lyrics deal with real issues that face all humans: choices in life, depression, self-esteem. And the fans know that we are there for them, and they are there for us.

- RM

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

- Jerry Stiller

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

- Henri Nouwen

Depression isn’t a disease; depression is a normal response to abnormal life experiences.

- Johann Hari

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

- Patty Duke

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

- Atticus

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.

- Carrie Fisher

I'm exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel.

- Anonymous

Depression is a kind of constricted consciousness.

- Bill Richards

I miss the person I used to be.

- Anonymous

Short & Inspiring Depression Quotes For Girls

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

- Warren Buffett

World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name.

- Gore Vidal

During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.

- Betty White

The Nasdaq bubble and crash were followed by the real estate bubble then subprime crash, which led to the unprecedented printing of trillions of dollars in an attempt to prevent a global depression.

- Robert Kiyosaki

Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

- P. J. O'Rourke

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.

- Alain de Botton

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

- Chuck Palahniuk

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

- Ernest Hemingway

Pretending to not be depressed is more exhausting than the actual depression.

- Anonymous

There's nothing more depressing than having it all and still feeling sad.

- Janet Jackson

Having depression is being in an abusive relationship with yourself.

- Emily Dotterer

When you have depression simply existing is a full-time job.

- Anonymous

Depression is being sad and not remembering why.

- Atticus

Depression is not the same as sadness.

- Anonymous

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