Depression Quotes

...Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling...People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

--Judith Guest

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

--Steven Wright

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

--Dodie Smith

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

--Dorothy Rowe

Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.

--Tom Bosley

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it, will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

--Abraham Lincoln

Depression quotes with messages of understanding and hope about depression.

Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts.

--Penelope Sweet

If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.

--Judy Collins

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

--Patty Duke

If depression is creeping up and must be faced, learn something about the nature of the beast: You may escape without a mauling.

-- Dr. R. W. Shepherd

No, life ain't always beautiful
Tears will fall sometimes
Life ain't always beautiful
But it's a beautiful ride

--Life Ain't Always Beautiful, sung by Gary Allan

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

--Susan Sontag

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

--Jonathan Davis

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

--Jeanette Winterson

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.

--David D. Burns

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

--Rollo May

Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.

--Siobhan Fahey

--From 'These Days', by Jackson Browne

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.

--Elizabeth Wurtzel

If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.

--Siobhan Fahey

I hope these depression quotes helped you. ~Adam

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