Top 79 Happiness Depression Quotes
#1. Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they go. These poor souls were born sick and tired.
Louis Sullivan
#2. I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#3. The realities of motherhood are often obscured by a halo of illusions. The future mother tends to fantasize about love and happiness and overlooks the other aspects of child-rearing: the exhaustion, frustration, loneliness, and even depression, with its attendant state of guilt.
Elisabeth Badinter
#5. Gratitude is the antidote for misery. When you are counting your blessings you are too busy to be counting your problems.
Miya Yamanouchi
#6. The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
Gary Larson
#7. The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.
Henri Nouwen
#8. Larry: She doesn't want to be happy.
Dan: Everybody wants to be happy.
Larry: Depressives don't. They want to be unhappy to confirm they're depressed. If they were happy they couldn't be depressed anymore. They'd have to go out into the world and live. Which can be depressing.
Patrick Marber
#9. Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly.
Brian Tracy
#10. Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.
Victor Hugo
#11. I felt as if something hung there in the back of my mind, waiting to tarnish whatever happiness I might find. Is it safer to be unhappy? Nothing ever wants to take that away.
Storm Constantine
#12. Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.
Mitch Albom
#13. If you're self-compassionate, you'll tend to have higher self-esteem than if you're endlessly self-critical. And like high self-esteem - self-compassion is associated with significantly less anxiety and depression, as well as more happiness, optimism, and positive emotions.
David D. Burns
#14. Happiness is not to be found at the bottom of a bottle or from the tip of a needle; it is not to be found amidst a cloud of smoke or within a sugar-coated pill. If you look for it in these places, you will find naught but despair.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#15. Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.
Neel Burton
#16. 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
#17. Bells ringing with no sound
Laughter with no voice
Happiness lost without being found
Making love with no noise
T. Grassan
#19. Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull 'em up. Choose joy.
Marianne Williamson
#20. In search for love, where love is some Oxytocin,seeking happiness related to Orexin. Sensations of glory, motivation and success, They are all some precious chemicals. Our mind is greedy, and falls into depression when he is no longer satisfied. LIFE IS A DRUG STORE WE ARE ALL JUNKIES.
Omar EL KADMIRI
#21. She was supposed to be happy ... why couldn't she just be happy for a few moments? Why couldn't she just forget everything bad going on her life, and just be happy?
Courtney Carola
#22. If I am a puzzle, this is the moment in which I find the first corner piece. There is still a lot of work to do; I still have a thousand pieces of myself to fit into place. But everyone knows you're supposed to find the corners first. They are the beginning.
Claire Legrand
#23. Guidance counselors always love to say, 'Just think positively,' but that's impossible when you have this thing inside of you, strangling every ounce of happiness you can muster. My body is an efficient happy-though-killing machine.
Jasmine Warga
#24. Spring, love, happiness! Are you not weary of that stupid, meaningless, constantly repeated fraud? Always the same and always a fraud! There is no spring, no sun, no happiness!
Leo Tolstoy
#26. Conscious breathing is the best antidote to stress, anxiety and depression.
Amit Ray
#27. Happiness is the most important thing in the world, without it, you live a life of depression.
Marilyn Monroe
#28. She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface
Diane Chamberlain
#29. Between the new, happy him, and the old, depressing him, there stood in the way only his lack of imagination.
Vann Chow
#30. Do you believe in other universes? Do you think there's another dimension where we're happy?
Jasmine Warga
#31. I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
Francesca Lia Block
#32. 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
#33. Do as gas balloons do, while in depression; inhale helium of happiness and fly high.
Vikrmn
#34. The difference between depression and happiness is having a purpose.
Clinton McCoy
#35. Everything is fine, nobody is happy...
Anonymous
#36. A big part of dealing with depression is realizing that you are in control of your own happiness.
Brian Michael Good
#37. How is it that we have over 6 billion people in the world and half of them feel alone?
Nikki Rowe
#38. The opposite of happiness is unhappiness, not depression.
Gretchen Rubin
#39. Depression arises when one uses his power and authority. Whatever authority there is, it is there for giving happiness to others. Authority is to give happiness to others, even to those who are guilty of doing wrong.
Dada Bhagwan
#40. The key to happiness is being happy with who you are and enjoying the life you are living.
Robert Moment
#41. In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.
Ariel Gore
#42. It's worth burning myself out like a match
so long as others receive the light and warmth I dispatch.
Shannon Perry
#44. Depression is not an absence of happiness, it's a feeling that happiness may never return.
Steven Aitchison
#45. When the Self is freed from mind there are no limits to what one can experience.
Vivian Amis
#46. Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What's so wrong with that?
Ashly Lorenzana
#47. 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
#50. Be happy
if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
Tom Stoppard
#53. There are only two profound ways to reach enlightenment: Laugh by yourself, or get tickled.
Saurabh Sharma
#54. If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark.
Ashly Lorenzana
#55. If we were never depressed we would not be alive - - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression,
Oswald Chambers
#56. The trick when it comes to dealing with depression is being able to imagine yourself out of it. When you can picture a happier life, you will be determined to work at the things that prevent it from happening.
Keysha Jade
#57. Ignorance is the only possible happiness this world has to offer
Patrick Suskind
#58. Again, all of life presents us with two basic ways to treat events. We can either label them "god for us" or "bad for us." The event is only an event. It's how we treat the event that determines what it becomes in our lives. The event doesn't make that determination- we do.
Chris Prentiss
#59. The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.
Dorothy Rowe
#60. All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.
Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
#61. It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#62. I'm by no means an expert at giving advice on depression, but I would say that a lot of my show is about making the decision to be happy. We all think that happiness is something that just falls into our lap. But it's something you have to really work on.
Lilly Singh
#63. I wanted to tell her happy was hard for me. But I think she already knew that.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#64. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.
Haruki Murakami
#65. Happiness is not a reward. It's a consequence. You have to work at it every day.
Norah Vincent
#66. 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
#67. your ego is nothing but a mean and cruel deceptive little freak living inside your head that will never bring joy and happiness to your life. What that ego will bring is frustration, depression, manipulation, and fear.
Tony Horton
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. Depression is very real. It'll back you into a dark room, slap you across the face, spit in your eyes, scream in your ears, and punch you in the gut - Until you give in.
Anonymous
#72. Happiness is only for a short time then comes sadness which proceeds on overtime
A.N. Knight
#73. One swallow does not make a summer,
neither does one fine day;
similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
Aristotle.
#74. It is an essential part of the interpretive work that it should keep in step with fluctuations between love and hatred, between happiness and satisfaction on the one hand and persecutory anxiety and depression on the other.
Melanie Klein
#75. The happiness state, when examined more closely, turns out not to be a point but a range, with contentment at the bottom and exaltation at the top ... there are probably as many forms of happiness as there are of depression.
Michael Foley
#76. Every time I get happy
the Nana-hex comes through.
Birds turn into plumber's tools,
a sonnet turns into a dirty joke,
a wind turns into a tracheotomy,
a boat turns into a corpse ...
Anne Sexton
#77. You don't think in depression that you've put on a grey veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.
Andrew Solomon
#78. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.
Dalai Lama
#79. The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light.
Richelle E. Goodrich
