Broken Depression Quotes

#1. Occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#2. It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn't want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.

Sarah Dessen

#3. I've known elephants with broken hearts, others with depression.

Mark Shand

#4. I'm broken, but I have to learn how to live. I feel stuck together with scotch tape, like after any breath everything could come apart. If it does, if it all comes undone, I think I'll fall down and never rise again.

Anna White

#5. A powerful flight of the imagination ... an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

Roger Zelazny

#6. I asked myself only when he needed my help, "How will the broken heal the wounded?

Sanhita Baruah

#7. You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

Alfred Adler

#8. Though life shall come to an end one day, don't end life whilst living. So many people end their lives whilst they live before their lives come to a real end! There is always another tomorrow to do something different!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#9. Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.

Mallory Ortberg

#10. I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.

Marian Keyes

#11. She had been desperate to feel something, anything. She needed a window, because she had broken her heart throwing it at locked doors.

Amy Zhang

#12. For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

Osamu Dazai

#13. If you listen closely, silence can be deafening.

Truth Devour

#14. If people feel lost and alone and helpless and broken and hopeless today, what will it be like if the world really begins to come apart at the hinges?

Brandon Andress

#15. If I can bring Him nothing but my tears, He will put them with His own tears in His own bottle for He once wept; if I can bring Christ nothing but my groans and sighs, He will accept these as an acceptable sacrifice, for He once was broken in heart, and sighed heavily in spirit.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#16. Breathe in, breathe out. Over and over again.
Just to prove a broken heart can't really kill you.

Kelley York

#17. Those who try to "break on through to the other side" not only cannot predict what they may find there, but are themselves too often broken in the process.

Charles Shaar Murray

#18. Sometimes," says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway. Then, maybe, people would stop minimising my illness because they can actually see what's wrong with me. They seem to need physical evidence.

Sally Brampton

#19. In the '20s they were telling us we'd all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.

Jay Chiat

#20. Everything was a broken line for me in those days. I was slipped into the empty spaces between words.

Betsy Cornwell

#21. Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race.

Richard Baxter

#22. No one can hurt me now 'cause i have stopped permitting them.

Pavankumar Nagaraj

#23. Judy's friend that she has known the longest has just broken up with her boyfriend and is depressed. Judy likes her more now that she is depressed and feels unmotivated in life. Judy feels unmotivated in life.

Ellen Kennedy

#24. Yes, I'm broken. And yes, he's broken. But the more we talk about it, the more we share our sadness, the more I start to believe that there could be a chance to fix us, a chance that we could save each other.

Jasmine Warga

#25. Rather than assuming weakness or defectiveness, we should acknowledge that getting through depression requires considerable strength. Rather than assuming permanent debility, we should recognize that some depressions are followed by thriving.

Jonathan Rottenberg

#26. Allow others to talk about themselves instead of being obsessed about telling them or bragging about yourself and your possessions and achievements. Show a genuine interest in others and allow them to tell their story so you can share the conversation.

Archibald Marwizi

#27. Don't you dare give up on me.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#28. Sometimes people think if someone has depression, that person must be a broken Mormon. We believe that righteousness is happiness, but what happens when people are righteous and they're not happy?

Hank Smith

#29. When your heart is broken, it's easier to follow rules

Betsy Cornwell

#30. Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard 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

#31. Having to admit that you are depressed makes one feel less than. Broken. Yes, that's what it is. Broken.

Gillian Marchenko

#32. Recently I was reading somewhere or other an Italian curio-dealer who attempted to sell a 17th century crucifix to J.P. Morgan. Inside it was concealed a stiletto. What a perfect symbol of the Christian religion.

George Orwell

#33. Physically, mentally, emotionally
it seems like every part of me is broken in one way or another.

Patrick Carman