Top 100 Depression Sadness Quotes
#1. If you don't think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.
Kris Carr
#2. 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
#3. The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, and to declare to herself that she was prepared to stand alone in the world.
Anthony Trollope
#4. But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.
Emma Forrest
#5. It wasn't that she was sad - sadness had very little to do with it, really, considering that most of the time, she felt close to nothing at all. Feeling required nerves, connections, sensory input. The only thing she felt was numb. And tired. Yes, she very frequently felt tired.
Nenia Campbell
#6. Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined ... they are individuals in their own right.
Jane Goodall
#7. An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#8. A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,
A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,
Which finds no natural outlet or relief,
In word, or sigh, or tear.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#9. Maybe tranquility is the dirt under my nails. I know it's there but I never feel like digging it out.
Casey Renee Kiser
#10. You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins.
Rachel Klein
#11. Sometimes they open it up like a package in the presence of a person they can talk to,' she said. 'Someone they can trust.' She held out her hands. 'Any person who is carrying a lot of sadness,' she said, 'needs to be able to rest sometimes, and to put it down.
Julia A. Schumacher
#12. But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.
Dennis Lehane
#13. A radio was playing quietly. Nobody was listening. It was there to drown out the silence.
Rachel Abbott
#14. We may seem fine, even when the pain remains right there beneath our surface.
Ashly Lorenzana
#15. He didn't like having to start the fire again, that was the source of this small sadness. You get tired of these endless beginnings.
Denis Johnson
#16. Depression is our way of telling ourselves that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing.
Neel Burton
#17. A woman who had fallen out of love with her life
Jhumpa Lahiri
#18. When your heart is broken, it's easier to follow rules
Betsy Cornwell
#19. My unhappiness precluded all else; unhappiness is a kind of narcissism, in which nothing that does not resonate with your unhappiness can interest you.
Caroline Kettlewell
#20. There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost.
Claire North
#21. In the deepest darkness God tenderly grasps my hand and whispers that darkness is nothing more than a place that He is preparing for the arrival of light.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#22. Desdemona, mourning her parents, was still imprisoned by the past. And so she stood on the mountain, looking down at the emancipated city, and felt cheated by her ability to feel happy by everybody else.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#23. I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
John Keats
#24. He thought perhaps it was a woman's way, to come out of such a storm of emotion and pain as if she were a ship emerging onto calm seas. She had seemed, not at peace, but emptied of sorrow. As if she had run out of that particular emotion and no other one arose to take its place.
Robin Hobb
#25. You can't get out of life alive, so you may as well have a good time.
Les Brown
#26. The monsters were never
under my bed.
Because the monsters
were inside my head.
I fear no monsters,
for no monsters I see.
Because all this time
the monster has been me.
Nikita Gill
#27. It was really hard to stay positive. And that's normally a talent of mine.
Paige Harbison
#28. Even when the sun was shining she couldn't see it. The whole house was closing in on her and she was suffocating.
Crissi Langwell
#29. Ricky just listens. He isn't shocked. He isn't surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the guilt and the sorrow and the rage. And he does not judge me. He just listens.
Emily Andrews
#31. Let it go and learn from the process.
Nash
#32. Sometimes bliss can only be found in the serenity of darkness.
Saim .A. Cheeda
#33. I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?
Ned Vizzini
#34. Never underplay a child's sadness.
Travis, Dr. Richard L. (2013-12-22). Overcoming Depression in Teens and Pre-Teens, p. 67
Dr. Richard Travis
#35. Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.
Phoebe Stone
#36. When everything seems to be going wrong with you, you must remember the airplane takes off against the wind
Sunday Adelaja
#38. What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equal to so many sudden orders of sorrow, any one of which alone would have wrenched us from our fragile orbits around each other.
Paul Harding
#39. It's disappointing to feel sad for no reason. Sadness can be almost pleasantly indulgent when you have a way to justify it.
Allie Brosh
#40. It weren't too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn't feel so, accepting, anymore.
Kathryn Stockett
#41. There's no saving him from his deep hole. There's no saving me from my black slug.
Jasmine Warga
#42. ( ... ) Since I was a kid."
"Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'"
"Right.
Ned Vizzini
#43. Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.
Nicole Krauss
#44. Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand.
Flavia Weedn
#45. It's so difficult to describe depression to someone who's never been there, because it's not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it's that cold absence of feeling - that really hollowed-out feeling.
J.K. Rowling
#46. Emma is not a person; Emma is a place that you get stuck in; Emma is a pain that you cannot erase.
Justin Vernon
#47. I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The sky was pearly grey. It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which memories crowd upon one, memories of other shores, of other faces.
Joseph Conrad
#48. There I was, casually wishing that I could stop existing in the same way you'd want to leave an empty room or mute an unbearably repetitive noise.
Allie Brosh
#49. But trying to use willpower to overcome the apathetic sort of sadness that accompanies depression is like a person with no arms trying to punch themselves until their hands grow back. A fundamental component of the plan is missing and it isn't going to work.
Allie Brosh
#50. The sight of such aching beauty would infuse his soul with pain.
Tabitha Suzuma
#51. Disquietude that springs from the fundamental nature of being a human being is vaster and more encompassing than depression, which has a cause and therefore a cure.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#52. 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
#53. I hate sadness. Anything is better than sadness. Even feeling nothing.
Rebekah Crane
#54. To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.
Peter Heller
#55. My demeanor isn't that of a woman enraged. To see me slumped, glassy-eyed, holding a sandwich someone has cut for me into four "manageable" pieces, a person might tell you I look much more like a woman subdued.
Koren Zailckas
#56. Rain is a lullaby heard through a thick, isolating blanket of clouds. It is the tinkling harp of water droplets; a moist breath whistling through willow reeds; a pattering beat background to the mourner's melody. Rain is a soft song of compassion for the brokenhearted.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#57. I'm a classic eccentric, living at the extremes of high mania and low mood. There's no middle ground, only madness and sadness.
Fennel Hudson
#58. Her initial elation had given way to something unexpected: a heightened sadness. Even depression.
Mitch Albom
#59. Sadness is a moment
in which the world took something
from you.
Depression is a lifetime
of torment
no matter what is said or done.
A.P. Sweet
#60. It is foolishness to want what never was or will never will be, lament the passage of time, and live in fearfulness of an uncertain future. The moods generated by regret including depression and self-loathing congeal in our sentient consciousness creating the painful landscape of the self.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#61. Not easy to state the change you made.
If I'm alive now, I was dead,
Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.
Sylvia Plath
#62. It was the face of a human being who'd been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but wounds. The face of a person who could probably kill someone without feeling anything whatsoever.
Ryu Murakami
#63. I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer out of him.
Osamu Dazai
#64. I thought depression just meant that you're sad." "Well, in lay terms it does, but the fact is that long-term sadness is now known as clinical depression and it is directly caused by neurohormonal imbalance or the inability of specific receptors in the brain to function correctly.
Craig Hurren
#65. In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony ...
Jane Austen
#66. I wonder, with all the flowers in the garden, how many of them ever think of hanging themselves with the garden hose, if ever they can.
Anthony Liccione
#67. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
Alan Lightman
#68. I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.
Joyce Meyer
#69. You wanted to become a doctor to help people and feel better at the end of your job, I think, watching them, as the nurse takes my hand. But I don't think you do feel better at the end of the day. You look like humans have constantly disappointed you.
Caitlin Moran
#70. It ... whatever 'it' is, has swallowed me and I lie here in the pit of its cold dark stomach being eaten alive by its bile and I ... I don't even know if I want to be saved.
Kellie Elmore
#71. There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, There now, hang on, you'll get over it. Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. Cynthia
Barbara Kingsolver
#72. He cries behind his wall, I think, and no one knows, not even he. And no one will ever know, and in the end he'll always be alone in smiling pain.
George R R Martin
#73. There are edges around the black and every now and then a flash of color streaks out of the gray. But I can never really grasp any of the slivers of memories that emerge.
Katie McGarry
#74. I tear at the air with glass nails
that have learned to scale
mountains of mirrors.
Valentina Cano
#75. It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.
It made me tired just to think of it.
Sylvia Plath
#76. I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here."
"Is there something wrong with that?"
"Absolutely.
Ned Vizzini
#77. Perhaps the greatest neutralizer of sadness rests with two simple words : thank you.
Charles F. Glassman
#78. Unfortunately, the most significant moments of our lives are often unpleasant.
Andrea Cremer
#79. Sometimes,
all you can do
is lie in bed,
and hope
to fall asleep
before
you fall apart.
William C. Hannan
#80. La tristesse durera toujours.
[The sadness will last forever.]
Vincent Van Gogh
#81. Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and controlled it, whereas the sadness owned her.
Ann Brashares
#82. In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell onto their own lives in order to re-create it, that others might suffer the experience from the comfort of their armchairs. - Quote from Her Past's Present.
Michael Poeltl
#83. Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.
Mike Mills
#84. I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.
Chris Weitz
#85. Tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.
David Levithan
#86. I was sprawled out in my usual position on the couch, half asleep but entirely drunk, torturing myself by tearing memories out of my mind at random like matches from a book, striking them one at a time and drowsily setting myself on fire.
Jonathan Tropper
#87. Well, I never lived through the Great Depression, sometimes I feel as though I did.
Kasey Chambers
#88. 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
#89. I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.
Charlotte Eriksson
#90. There are few things more ungodly than fake joy when you should be mourning.
Matt Chandler
#91. Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold.
Mitch Albom
#92. Depression, anger, and sadness are states of mind, and so are happiness, peace, and contentment. You can choose to be in any of these states because it's your mind.
Maddy Malhotra
#93. I think you can find a lot of joy and inspiration through food. I think when you find depression and sadness and hopelessness, many times it's connected to certain food and access to quality and nutrition.
Adrian Grenier
#95. He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.
Nina LaCour
#96. Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness
Johnny Rich
#97. In the mornings, my pain was magnified by about a thousand. In the morning there weren't only those sad facts about my life. Now there was also the additional fact that I was a pile of shit.
Cheryl Strayed
#98. There is a difference between depression and sadness. I am happy to be sad.
Amanda Mosher
#100. This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.
Joseph Conrad
