1 Everyone thinks I’ve gotten better. I haven’t. I’ve just gotten better at hiding it. -Unknown
Sometimes you just feel comfortable with yourself only because the world shows you it’s so done with you whining about your troubling thoughts
2 Depression isn’t always at 3am. Sometimes it happens at 3pm, while you’re with friends and you’re halfway through a laugh. -Unknown
Depression isn’t a common trait, but when it takes up on someone, it doesn’t strike with time, it takes away all the happiness in you.
3 I’m fine, I’m just tired”. My depression is setting in but I don’t want to bother you with it. -Unknown
Sometimes you just feel like being with yourself. You don’t wanna share your feelings with others as you think they might not get you.
4 Depression is the inability to construct a future. – Rollo May
Depression seeps in like a weed inside you when it happens to you. It’s difficult to get out of it because it doesn’t let you see into the future.
5 Depression is not a sign of weakness. It means you’ve been strong for far too long. -Unknown
Depression doesn’t make you weak, but shows that you’ve grown more and more, grown comfortable with your own self, which most of the people can’t do.
6 Depression is like a war, you either win or die trying. -Unknown
You wage a war within yourself only when you become depressed. You keep on trying and trying to get out of it, and if you don’t, your life just ends with it.
7 I’m often silent when I’m screaming inside. -Unknown
Sometimes people can’t hear the deepest sads of you because you don’t let them out. You prefer to keep them inside and let them eat you up.
8 And then suddenly I became sad for no reason at all. -Unknown
Depression doesn’t keep you busy all the times, but hits you from time to time like it’s trying to maintain a balance that you don’t get too happy.
9 You think you want to die but in reality you just want to be saved. -Unknown
You feel like giving up at every moment, but because you want to get out of it so badly and start living it all again happily
10 Part of me wants to die tonight, part of me wants it to be an accident and part of me wants somebody to notice and stop me. -Unknown
You want to be rescued from your own depths because you yourself aren’t strong enough to do that and some help would really suffice.
11 Sometimes when I say “I’m okay”, I want someone to look me in the eyes, and say, I know you’re not. -Unknown
It doesn’t always happen, but then there are really few people who really get how you’re feeling and who want to keep on looking out for you.
12 I don’t think people understand how stressful it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself. -Unknown
It’s not something that people will understand, because I myself have failed at figuring out what all is going on in that mind of mine.
13 But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc. -Bob Geldof
Depression is not only about being sad, but also about learning things in a different way and gaining experience with oneself.
14 What if I feel this way for the rest of my life? -Unknown
Don’t let depression grow on you. It sucks the life out of you gradually, leaving you there hanging just like that.
15 Depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show me their badges. I know these guys very well. -Unknown
When depression comes, along with it comes loneliness because you don’t want to be anyone for long, you don’t like sharing and prefer being on your own.
16 I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you’re not alone. — Dwayne Johnson
When one suffers through depression they think that they are alone and have no one else. Instead we should know that there are many out there willing to support us.
17 A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you’re in a room full of a million people. — Lilly Singh
Depression makes us empty from inside. That is why even in a room full of people brimming with energy we feel down and devastated.
18 Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is. -Atticus
Colorblind people when told how they cannot enjoy the beautiful colors of life shatters them. That is why when depressed people are told that the world is a happy place and they should be happy, they rarely feel like it’s helping them.l
19 Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent. – Elizabeth Wentzel
Physical ailments are so much easier to solve, one can create medicine with knowledge and find a cure but when mental ailments are concerned not much can be done with only knowledge.
20 Depression, suffering, and anger are all part of being human. – Janet Fitch
We as humans will inevitably feel anger, happiness, and depression. It is our ability to pull ourselves out of these dark situations that tell us how much we have grown.
21 Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad. ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Depressed people often come out as cold but in reality, it isn’t that they are doing it intentionally. Every one of us has some dark past that has traumatized us and hence one should not be judged too quickly.
22 There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral’s Kiss
Physical wounds are much easier to heal and are visible to the naked eye. One can care for a physical wound in a small area but when mental wounds are concerned one simply cannot apply medicine to heal them although they cut far deeper.
23 Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others. ― Jasmine Warga
All of us have sorrow inside us. Some are just better at not letting their dark side take over while others aren’t.
24 I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me. – Elizabeth Wurtzel
Letting go of depression is never an easy task, even more, when the depressed blames himself which in turn brings down their confidence.
25 I am in that temper that if I were underwater I would scarcely kick to come to the top. -John Keats
Life just seems to pass by and the will to live on dwindles as one undergoes depression, so much so that if one were to drown underwater they would hardly attempt to come back to the surface because living becomes an ordeal for the depressed.
26 We hide to try our feelings, but we forget that our eyes speak. – Unknown
Our physical body speaks through our mouth but our soul speaks through our eyes and one cannot hide their feelings because their eyes give them away.
27 You look happy, but you don’t feel happy, that’s what depression does to you. – Unknown
When depressed, one can seem all happy and balanced while in reality they are in shambles.
28 When you suffer from depression ‘I’m tired’ means a permanent state of exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix. – Unknown
When one is depressed, being tired doesn’t mean physical stress but mental exhaustion and it is something neither sleeping or resting can cure.
29 I wanted to write down exactly what I felt but somehow the paper stayed empty and I could not have described it any better. – Unknown
Expressing your problems and negative emotions is a stressful task. An empty paper is a far better representation of how a depressed person feels than any words.
30 No one realizes how strong someone with depression has to be just to do daily stuff like shower, brush hair or get out of bed.- Unknown
Depression makes daily tasks an ordeal, it is like overcoming a thousand hurdles just to do a simple task. The amount of mental strength a depressed person applies just to complete basic tasks is staggering.
31 Today my forest is dark, the trees are sad and all the butterflies have broken wings. – Unknown
One’s soul can be described as an evergreen forest but when that soul becomes tired and depressed, the forest loses its liveliness and light. The trees tilt down and butterflies don’t have wings to fly around and be happy.
32 What people never understand is that depression isn’t about the outside, it’s about the inside. – Unknown
Depression is not about the physical appearance or any physical situation, it is the inside of a human that gets affected.
33 When you’re depressed you don’t control your thoughts, your thoughts control you, I wish people would understand this. – Unknown
Being depressed often means one does not have any control over how they feel. You can be happy and giddy for a moment and all sad and burnt down just moments later.
34 Sleep just doesn’t sleep anymore, it’s an escape. – Unknown
Although sleep never cures depression or mental weakness, sleeping does provide respite and an escape while allowing the brain to rest.
35 I miss me, the old me, the happy me, the bright me, the smiling me, the laughing me, the gone me. – Unknown
A depressed man is a man who misses himself the most than anyone else, they are the ones who want to go back to being happy rather than being down and devastated.
36 She was drowning, but nobody saw her struggle. – Unknown
Depression is an everlasting feeling of drowning into despair. It is like being pulled down into the depths of sorrow and when someone suffers in silence, others are unable to understand their agony.
36 Quotes On Depression To Understand Yourself Better
1. Everyone thinks I’ve gotten better. I haven’t. I’ve just gotten better at hiding it. -Unknown
2. Depression isn’t always at 3am. Sometimes it happens at 3pm, while you’re with friends and you’re halfway through a laugh. -Unknown
3. I’m fine, I’m just tired”. My depression is setting in but I don’t want to bother you with it. -Unknown
4. Depression is the inability to construct a future. -Rollo May
5. Depression is not a sign of weakness. It means you’ve been strong for far too long. -Unknown
6. Depression is like a war, you either win or die trying. -Unknown
7. I’m often silent when I’m screaming inside. -Unknown
8. And then suddenly I became sad for no reason at all. -Unknown
9. You think you want to die but in reality you just want to be saved. -Unknown
10. Part of me wants to die tonight, part of me wants it to be an accident and part of me wants somebody to notice and stop me. -Unknown
11. Sometimes when I say “I’m okay”, I want someone to look me in the eyes, and say, I know you’re not. -Unknown
12. I don’t think people understand how stressful it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself. -Unknown
13. But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc. -Bob Geldof
14. What if I feel this way for the rest of my life? -Unknown
15. Depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show me their badges. I know these guys very well. -Unknown
16. I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you’re not alone. — Dwayne Johnson
17. A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you’re in a room full of a million people. — Lilly Singh
18. Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is. -Atticus
19. Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent. – Elizabeth Wentzel
20. Depression, suffering, and anger are all part of being human. – Janet Fitch
21. Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad. ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
22. There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral’s Kiss
23. Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others. ― Jasmine Warga
24. I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me. – Elizabeth Wurtzel
25. I am in that temper that if I were underwater I would scarcely kick to come to the top. -John Keats
26. We hide to try our feelings, but we forget that our eyes speak. – Unknown
27. You look happy, but you don’t feel happy, that’s what depression does to you. – Unknown
28. When you suffer from depression ‘I’m tired’ means a permanent state of exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix. – Unknown
29. I wanted to write down exactly what I felt but somehow the paper stayed empty and I could not have described it any better. – Unknown
30. No one realizes how strong someone with depression has to be just to do daily stuff like shower, brush hair or get out of bed.- Unknown
31. Today my forest is dark, the trees are sad and all the butterflies have broken wings. – Unknown
32. What people never understand is that depression isn’t about the outside, it’s about the inside. – Unknown
33. When you’re depressed you don’t control your thoughts, your thoughts control you, I wish people would understand this. – Unknown
34. Sleep just doesn’t sleep anymore, it’s an escape. – Unknown
35. I miss me, the old me, the happy me, the bright me, the smiling me, the laughing me, the gone me. – Unknown
36. She was drowning, but nobody saw her struggle. – Unknown
