Top 91 Depression Inspirational Sayings
#1. In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible.
B.G. Bowers
#2. Cheerfulness is a choice, just as depression is. If you choose the former, the later will take charge.
R.v.m.
#3. I was so self-critical. I still am; but it's not as bad anymore.
Fiona Apple
#4. I name you today, heart fears. I am small, but you are smaller. You will not stop me. You have a voice, fears, and I must listen, but then I will open my heart. I will love you right to death.
Anna White
#5. I think I'll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that's fine. I have to make my peace with that.
Laura Marling
#6. If you take action while you are mad, you will always make the wrong decision.
Robyn Wheeler
#7. Whatever change you desire for the world, create that change in your own life. You are here for a purpose. Seek it out. Hunt it down. The greatest misery is to be purposeless. The great depression of our age is not economic, but spiritual. Our spiritual poverty is rooted in our purposelessness.
Matthew Kelly
#8. One day, you will stand at the summit of a figurative mountain and look back on your life's journey. And, to your utter amazement, you will see how your experiences with depression, dark and painful as they were, only added to the overall beauty of your life.
Seth Adam Smith
#9. ... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.
Lois Lowry
#11. Sometimes things do not go the way one wanted them to go ... At times like this, one would wish that one had not dreamt so much. Just hang in there ... destination is just a mile away.
Hari Kumar K
#12. A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.
Molly Ringwald
#13. Depression isn't a bad word ... but it can destroy. We must have hope we can save many ... We must keep the faith that we can try to help all!
Timothy Pina
#15. Love is the best treatment for depression. To get better, you have to give it away as much as you can, as fast as you can, and as often as you can.
Debasish Mridha
#16. Depression is a lying bastard.
You'll have better days, I promise you.
Sue Fitzmaurice
#17. Trying to find answers to why and how my life got into such a dismal mess, I sought answers in the scriptures, in religion and philosophy, but it only confused me further. Stories, on the other hand, helped me cope, heal and recover.
Indu Muralidharan
#18. It almost occurred;
It almost got hold of my purity,
Just as it headed for the war within my being,
I fed it a light so bright;
It thought it almost had control of me.
Depression is just a dis-ease,
So; Let your mind be free
Nikki Rowe
#19. The shadow is dark and the woods are cold, but they are not endless. No matter how lost you are now, you are not lost forever. You are findable.
Love just keeps on looking.
Love is forever tries.
Anna White
#20. Sometimes when you experience something wonderful, everything else loses its shine.
M.E. Vaughan
#21. He is in no real danger. He merely suffers from a lethargy, a sickness that is common among the depressed. He has forgotten who he really is, but he will recover, for he used to know me, and all I have to do is cloud the mist that beclouds his vision.
Boethius
#22. When you're in the middle of your depression, pay good attention to it, because, tended carefully, you never know where it might lead you.
Gwyneth Lewis
#25. Just an observation: it is impossible to be both grateful and depressed. Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.
Steve Maraboli
#26. Nothing is permanent in my mysterious world, even my moments of belief - Jenifer
Durgesh Satpathy
#27. Above all grey clouds, there are clear blue skies" David Longworth
David Longworth
#28. The writer's life is frightful. I have experienced deep dispair, mental ill and attempt of suicide.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#29. Live with grace and dignity. It's a middle finger to the darkness
Jamie Tworkowski
#30. Through depression and many other dark low emotions, our Light dims and our immune system declines along with it. White blood cells are the physical Light of our body.
Colors can be used to heal, restore and to uplift us.
Jacqueline Ripstein
#31. One thing is undeniably clear. We have all had bad experiences, we have all had tragedies in our lives which help to shape who we are.
J. Loren Norris
#32. The most amazing thing is that all my sorrows, all of my darkest moments, are becoming my gifts.
Anna White
#33. Writer's block is as a depression in the earth. Like a river that flows into this depression for a time of rest and tranquility, eventually filling to continue its journey from the lower end of its shore line, so too shall your creative juices flow again.
Everett R. Lake
#34. Dealing with depression isn't about trying to run away from the feeling; it's about learning to walk alongside it.
Hannah Hart
#38. The best treatment for stress, anxiety, and depression is to change your perception by knowing that all of this is coming from a fear induced illusion.
Debasish Mridha
#39. She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface
Diane Chamberlain
#40. To all who struggle with depression or suicidal thoughts: you are not alone. we are all on this journey together. I promise you that there is hope. Let us reach out to one another and walk together in the sunlight.
Seth Adam Smith
#41. Get a shot of love to prevent the infection called depression.
Debasish Mridha
#42. There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.
Nick Hornby
#43. Once I had been introduced to depression, I realized if I wanted to help my friend and preserve our friendship, I needed to understand what the illness was all about.
Carlos Wallace
#44. To the deepest, most cellular level of my being, I resent people who believe that depression is the same as weakness, that "sad" people must be coddled like helpless toddlers.
Emery Lord
#45. The difference between depression and happiness is having a purpose.
Clinton McCoy
#47. Fear leads to worry. Worry leads to depression. But faith overcomes fear and worry.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#48. I have a life, goddamit. One life. I've seen too many people give theirs up, to drugs or suicide or even depression ... fuck, even just lazinesss. I've seen lives wasted.
I'll be damned if I'm going to waste mine.
Christopher Golden
#50. Work and learn in evil days, in insulted days, in days of debt and depression and calamity. Fight best in the shade of the cloud of arrows.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#51. When others cannot find something to hold onto ... we can reach out and be their anchor in that moment.
Aaron Woodall
#52. Caught in your youniverse again? Try reaching out to the one besides you!
Stefan Emunds
#54. Great music is a great remedy for depression, but you have to drink it in with your heart and mind.
Debasish Mridha
#56. When someone is suffering from anxieties, depression, and stress, the only treatment is to change awareness and consciousness.
Debasish Mridha
#57. Depression is like being under house arrest, only there is no house.
Lisa Eley
#58. Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fear
is an orphaned part of us
seeking joy,
some disowned shadow
wanting to return
to the light
and home
of ourselves.
Jacob Nordby
#59. Yellow is a very favorable vibration for mental or intellectual activity, as it promotes a clear state of mind. Yellow heightens your awareness and alleviates depression, sadness, or any kind of despondency. Yellow vibration foods are: pineapples, bananas, grapefruit, lemons and corn.
Tae Yun Kim
#61. It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.
Isocrates
#63. I'm not sure what happened to me over the last few days. I lost myself, I think. I sank down into a hole for a while. They're tricky things, holes. You don't know you're in one until you get out.
Kevin Brooks
#64. Anxiety and depression, and the physical symptoms they cause, are merely distractions and smokescreens to "protect" you from dangers, which are usually, imaginary.
Charles F. Glassman
#65. God wants to take the fears that you and I are holding onto with both hands. He throws them aside, effortless, and then takes our empty hands in His and fills them with his love. He is not a hard driver. He wants to provide.
Anna White
#66. Indigo has a purifying, stabilizing, cleansing effect when fear, repression, and obsessions have disturbed your mental body. Indigo food vibrations are: blackberries, blue plums, blueberries, purple brocoli, beetroot, and purple grapes.
Tae Yun Kim
#68. There are only two profound ways to reach enlightenment: Laugh by yourself, or get tickled.
Saurabh Sharma
#70. Nestled in the valley of darkness, in the deepest depths of depression, are the priceless gems of; creativity, intuition and sensitivity. The trick is learning how to navigate the dark, so these precious gems can be unearthed and their beauty beheld.
Jaeda DeWalt
#71. 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
#72. Telling the whole truth and nothing but is the ultimate taking care of yourself. I can't tell you how many clients of mine, once they clean up their lie list and resolve the big ones, cure themselves of their own depression.
Lauren Handel Zander
#73. In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge of self.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#74. Some folks got a light around them that shine for other peoples. I think that maybe some of them was in tunnels, and in that tunnel, maybe the only light they had was inside of them. And then, even long after they escaped that tunnel... They still be shining for everybody else.
Sapphire.
#75. Depression feels a bit like that, it creeps in on you and settles, until you think it'll never lift, but in time it always does. That's why it's so tragic if people don't reach out to anyone when they feel low, because if they do, the mist will usually lift in the end.
Sita Brahmachari
#76. Reckless predictions of the second coming of Christ create an artificial excitement among believers followed by a corresponding depression. In addition, it hardens skeptics in their unbelief and provides new fodder for cynics to mock the Christian faith.
Doug Batchelor
#77. Synchronize each breath with the present moment and become intertwined with happiness. Breathing in, we are grateful for the opportunities that are given to us; breathing out, we let go of the depression and anxiety that hold us back.
Forrest Curran
#78. You do it how you can do it,
so long as it's getting done,
you're okay.
Emma Forrest
#79. For those living in a dark cave ... sometimes all it takes is for someone to throw us a lifeline.
Martin R. Lemieux
#80. In this week I see such a picture of life, hard and joyful pressed up together and sleeping in the same bed. They come knit together. The lines of pain run through the joy and remind us to go all in, because life is short. The joy edges the pain and gives us a reason to rise.
Anna White
#81. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world
making the most of one's best.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#83. It's amazing the things that the heart and mind can endure. No one ever told me that growing up, so I often spent my childhood thinking something was wrong with me.
Yassin Hall
#84. But a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.
Jane Austen
#85. Magically, hopelessness gives rise to profound hope.
Stefan Emunds
#86. It's easy to feel depressed by focusing on problems. Count your blessings while others are adding up their worries and you will be much happier. Attitude is EVERYTHING!
Karen Gibbs
#87. Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
Victor Hugo
#88. Most people who think they're happy are really just stupid.
Tom Kitt
#89. Negativity is a debilitating disease. It is a slow and painful way to experience life. It attacks the immune system, creates anxiety, and can lead to loneliness and depression. Finding your inner harmony is the quickest way to alleviate the methodical destruction of this dark energy
Gary Hopkins
#90. Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.
Marian Keyes
#91. Don't underestimate your tears. They have the power to strengthen your commitment to your life's purpose and to direct you towards your goal. So, when you cry because of the people who mock or taunt you, be positive and make promises with yourself that you will prove them wrong.
Saad Salman
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