Depression Quotes

Depression can feel like a weight that never lifts, a relentless cloud that dims every light. At times, even the simplest tasks seem impossible. Many have walked this path and expressed their feelings in words that echo the depth of their struggle. These quotes can provide comfort and remind us that we are not alone in our experiences.

In this article, we have gathered some of the most poignant depression quotes. These words may not cure the pain, but they can offer a sliver of understanding and connection. Let them be a small light in the darkness, a reminder that even in our hardest moments, we are never truly alone.

Inspirational Quotes for Depression Healing

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

“You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.” – Sophia Bush

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Stars can’t shine without darkness.” – D.H. Sidebottom

“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” – Nido Qubein

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.” – Charles Bukowski

“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, but about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” – John Green

“To anyone in despair, you are not alone, and this pain will pass.” – Kristen Butler

“Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.” – Alice Morse Earle

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Khalil Gibran

“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm is all about.” – Haruki Murakami

“Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.” – Matt Lucas

“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?” – Rumi

“Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.” – Mariska Hargitay

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller

“There is no need to be perfect to inspire others. Let others get inspired by how you deal with your imperfections.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Sometimes, you have to face your greatest fears to find yourself.” – Anonymous

“Pain is real, but so is hope.” – Anonymous

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” – John Green, Looking for Alaska

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

“Inhale the future, exhale the past.” – Anonymous

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey

“When you feel like giving up, just remember why you held on for so long.” – Anonymous

“Depression is not the end of your story. It is the beginning of a new chapter.” – Anonymous

Uplifting Depression Quotes for Self-Care

“The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light.” – S. Ajna

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” – John Green

“In the middle of winter, I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside—remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.” – Charles Bukowski

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher

“When you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

“You are allowed to scream, you are allowed to cry, but do not give up.” – Unknown

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Stars can’t shine without darkness.” – D.H. Sidebottom

“We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.” – Mariska Hargitay

“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” – Nido Qubein

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Jung

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

“You are more than the mistakes you’ve made.” – Unknown

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Sometimes, the most productive thing you can do is relax.” – Mark Black

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James

“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Out of difficulties grow miracles.” – Jean de La Bruyère

“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.” – Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever. The storm is just passing over.” – Iyanla Vanzant

“You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.” – Julian Seifter

“Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take the step.” – Naeem Callaway

Quotes on Depression from Famous Individuals

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can’t get away from it.” – Nina LaCour

“I didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.” – Ned Vizzini

“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also harder to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.'” – C.S. Lewis

“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise.” – David Foster Wallace

“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.” – John Keats

“That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end.” – Elizabeth Wurtzel

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” – Richard Bach

“You say you’re ‘depressed’ – all I see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective – it just means you’re human.” – David Mitchell

“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.” – Charlotte Brontë

“The sun is gone, but I have a light.” – Kurt Cobain

“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” – Kahlil Gibran

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” – John Green

“I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.” – Elizabeth Wurtzel

“You never know how deep it goes until you can’t go back.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

“She was drowning, but nobody saw her struggle.” – Unknown

“I feel so disconnected from the world, and I feel like it’s the world disconnecting from me.” – Unknown

“Even in the darkest clouds, there is hope for sunlight.” – Original

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

“I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colors and shades I knew existed.” – Katie McGarry

“We cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever. We must stand up and move on to the next action.” – Haruki Murakami

“We are all just one small adjustment away from making our lives work.” – Original

“Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.” – Mason Cooley

“It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness.” – J.K. Rowling

“You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective – it just means you’re human.” – David Mitchell

“Depression is living in a body that fights to survive with a mind that tries to die.” – Unknown

“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus

“This life is not about feeling comfortable or avoiding the pain. It’s about becoming stronger, more refined, more open, and more loving.” – Unknown

“You’re like a grey sky. You’re beautiful, even though you don’t want to be.” – Jasmine Warga

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” – Rumi

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

Quotes about Understanding Depression

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” – John Green

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.” – Charles Bukowski

“The sun stopped shining for me that’s all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can’t get away from it. Not ever.” – Nina LaCour, *Hold Still*

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

“Depression is the inability to construct a future.” – Rollo May

“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.” – John Keats

“People who have never dealt with depression think it’s just being sad or being in a bad mood. That’s not what depression is for me; it’s falling into a state of grayness and numbness.” – Dan Reynolds

“There is no person in this whole world who is a mistake, no matter how different that person may seem.” – Fred Rogers

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” – Seneca

“Having anxiety and depression is like being scared and tired at the same time. It’s the fear of failure, but no urge to be productive. It’s wanting friends, but hating socializing. It’s wanting to be alone, but not wanting to be lonely. It’s feeling everything at once then feeling paralyzingly numb.” – Unknown

“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise.” – David Foster Wallace

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

“Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don’t stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself sink.” – Jasmine Warga

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there’s nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.” – Jasmine Warga

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.” – Atticus Poetry

“I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed.” – Katie McGarry

“When people don’t know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.” – Marion Cotillard

“The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.” – Pete Wentz

“Depression is like a war. You either win or die trying.” – Unknown

“You’re not a bad person for the ways you tried to kill your sadness.” – Unknown

“Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show me their badges. I know these guys very well.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

“Sometimes, when people are in a dark place, they need someone to be with them. Not to fix them, but to love them and sit with them in the darkness.” – Unknown

“And something inside me just…broke…That’s the only way I could describe it.” – Ranata Suzuki

“I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.” – Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

“When you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

“You are the one thing in this world, above all other things, that you must never give up on.” – L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.” – Albert Camus

“This too shall pass.” – Persian Proverb

“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” – William Faulkner

“Stars can’t shine without darkness.” – D.H. Sidebottom

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.” – Alice Morse Earle

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you’re going through a breakup and you miss your ex, keep going. A heart that breaks heals stronger.” – Shawn Mendes

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

“Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” – Leonard Cohen

“Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.” – Mariska Hargitay

“To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.” – William Faulkner

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” – Hubert H. Humphrey

“When it is darkest, we can see the stars.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You are never stronger than when you land flat on your back and realize you can still look up.” – Vance Havner

“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Out of difficulties grow miracles.” – Jean de La Bruyère

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss

“Behind every dark cloud is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.” – An original quote

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

“Mood swings are like the waves; they rise and fall with the tide of your soul.” – An original quote

“Just remember, you are not alone. By facing your fears, you can conquer them.” – Henry B. Eyring

“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

“Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to; it’s not for them.” – An original quote

Motivational Quotes for Depression Recovery

“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” – Nido Qubein

“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

“Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” – Leonard Cohen

“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” – Mary Oliver, *Wild Geese*

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo, *Les Misérables*

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou

“Stars can’t shine without darkness.” – Unknown

“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

“Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.” – Mariska Hargitay

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.” – Linda Poindexter

“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” – Dr. Henry Link

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” – J.K. Rowling, *Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban*

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison

“You are stronger than you know. More capable than you ever dreamed. And you are loved more than you could possibly imagine.” – Unknown

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde

“No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever. The storm is just passing over.” – Iyanla Vanzant

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” – John Green

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher

“Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but actually, you’ve been planted.” – Christine Caine

“Out of difficulties grow miracles.” – Jean de La Bruyère

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

“Your struggle is part of your story.” – Unknown

“Our scars are a testimony to the world. They are a part of our story and remind us that we conquered, that we survived.” – Unknown

Depression Quotes from Literature and Poetry

“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.” — John Keats, Letters

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.” — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, and Mourners to and fro kept treading — treading — till it seemed that Sense was breaking through.” — Emily Dickinson

“I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.” — Sylvia Plath, Elm

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, tears from the depth of some divine despair rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, in looking on the happy Autumn-fields, and thinking of the days that are no more.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson

“I am so tired of this melancholia. I am tired of feeling like I’m losing my mind.” — Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.” — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.” — Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.” — Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

“But what if I can’t help but wonder what we’ll become?” — Anonymous

“Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It’s just too much for them.” — Phoebe Stone, The Boy on Cinnamon Street

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” — Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan

“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” — John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.” — Bob Dylan

“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.” — Jane Austen, Sensibility

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.” — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller

“My soul is among lions: I lie among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.” — Psalm 57:4

“To miss someone is to love them. They are inseparable.” — Lillian Hellman

“Sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness.” — Galway Kinnell, St. Francis and the Sow

“I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and forever when I move.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” — Jordan Belfort

“This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.” — T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men

“After all, tomorrow is another day.” — Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason.” — Edgar Allan Poe

“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.” — Marilyn Monroe

“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and recovered hope.” — George Eliot, Adam Bede

“The great thing about a life of sin is that it’s never too late to change.” — W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

Humorous Depression Quotes for Lighter Moments

“I told my therapist about my depression; they told me to cheer up. I guess that’s why they make the big bucks.” – Anonymous

“You would think that a broken heart is the most painful thing, until you need to get out of bed on a Monday morning.” – Charles Bukowski

“If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, my depression still finds a way to tell me it’s my fault.” – Unknown

“Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it.” – George Carlin

“I’m not saying I’m Batman, but have you ever seen me and Batman in the same room? Oh wait, that’s my depression talking.” – Original

“I didn’t fall out of bed this morning; the ground punched me in the face.” – Anonymous

“They say laughter is the best medicine. Unfortunately, my insurance doesn’t cover stand-up comedy.” – Original

“I accidentally spilled coffee on my calendar. Now I see a latte of the same depressing events.” – Original

“I tried to organize a hide-and-seek tournament for depressed people, but good luck finding them.” – Unknown

“If only depression burned calories, I’d be a supermodel by now.” – Anonymous

“I’ve got 99 problems and 86 of them are completely made up scenarios in my head that I’m stressing about for absolutely no logical reason.” – Unknown

“Exercise? I thought you said extra fries.” – Unknown

“I told my depression I was sick of it; it asked if it should call in another sad feeling to cover.” – Original

“I don’t go the extra mile, because it’s never crowded and my depression prefers company.” – Unknown

“Depression is like a ninja – stealthy, sneaky, and always ready to roundhouse kick your emotions.” – Original

“I baked a cake for every time I felt sad; now my kitchen is a bakery.” – Original

“Depression is like trying to keep an ice cream cone from melting in the Sahara desert.” – Unknown

“I tried to drown my sorrows, but my depression learned how to swim.” – Anonymous

“I have a condition that makes me eat when I can’t find a reason to smile. It’s called boredom-induced depression snacking.” – Original

“The only thing I’ve managed to lose weight on is my bank account due to therapy bills.” – Original

“I would make a joke about depression, but I’d cry halfway through it.” – Unknown

“I tried jogging once. It was the worst two minutes of my life.” – Anonymous

“Adulting is mostly just Googling symptoms and reading about how they relate to your depression.” – Original

“Is it bad to name your depression? Mine goes by Debbie Downer.” – Unknown

“If my brain had a background music, it would be a sad trombone.” – Original

“If there were an award for Procrastination, I’d probably be depressed because I didn’t submit my entry on time.” – Original

“I wish my wallet had a depression because I wouldn’t mind seeing some money disappear.” – Unknown

“My room is clean enough to be healthy, but messy enough to be depressed.” – Original

“They say selfies are a cry for attention. Well, depression is the selfie expert.” – Original

“I’m so good at sleeping, I can do it with my eyes closed and still feel exhausted when I wake up.” – Unknown

“You can’t spell ‘sluggish’ without ‘ugh,’ and that’s basically my mood.” – Original

Empowering Depression Quotes to Ignite Hope

“Out of the darkness comes the light. Even the longest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“You are not a burden. You have a light inside of you that the world needs to see. Shine bright, even in the darkest moments.” – Unknown

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller

“Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.” – Jacques Prévert

“Sometimes, when you’re in a dark place, you think you’ve been buried, but actually you’ve been planted.” – Christine Caine

“The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about.” – Unknown

“Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.” – Alice Morse Earle

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” – Nido Qubein

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me, there lay an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus

“Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.” – Bill Clinton

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo

“Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.” – Mariska Hargitay

“You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” – Dan Millman

“Depression is not the end of your story; it is the beginning of your strength.” – Anonymous

“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker

“You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective – it just means you’re human.” – David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever.” – Iyanla Vanzant

“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.” – Chuang Tzu

“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“This too shall pass.” – Persian Proverb

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” – John Green

“Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to; it’s not for them.” – Joubert Botha

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

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher

“You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.” – Andrew Murphy

“It’s okay to struggle. It’s okay to ask for help. It’s okay to be human.” – Unknown

“Stars can’t shine without darkness.” – D.H. Sidebottom

Wrapping-up

These quotes about depression offer comfort and understanding for those who need it most. They remind us that we are not alone in our struggles and that many have walked this path before. Sometimes, a few wise words can make a big difference, shedding light on dark moments and providing a sense of connection.

Whether you’re looking for empathy or seeking to support someone else, these quotes can serve as a gentle reminder that hope exists, even if it sometimes feels far away. Keep these words close, and let them help you through tough times.