Top 100 Sayings About Sadness Depression
#1. Depression, contrary to what we normally believe, is not sadness but an inability to fully feel sadness. Depression is sorrow denied.
Eric Weiner
#2. I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.
Richard Marx
#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. Everything at the moment, my dear, no doubt seems disgusting. I know the mood too well. But being in that mood, Ross, is like being out in the frost. If we do not keep on the move we shall perish.
Winston Graham
#6. The train blows through town
delivering reality,
slapping my face and screaming,
"You are alone"
Rose colored memories drown,
taking their last breath.
Kellie Elmore
#7. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#12. 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
#13. Maybe tranquility is the dirt under my nails. I know it's there but I never feel like digging it out.
Casey Renee Kiser
#14. You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins.
Rachel Klein
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. A radio was playing quietly. Nobody was listening. It was there to drown out the silence.
Rachel Abbott
#18. The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#19. 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
#20. We may seem fine, even when the pain remains right there beneath our surface.
Ashly Lorenzana
#21. 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
#22. Depression is our way of telling ourselves that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing.
Neel Burton
#23. I felt like I was being carried over the threshold of a sisterhood of loss. I knew I was not walking alone, and that eventually I would bob back up to the surface of the deep, because the women around me showed me what healing looks like.
Anna White
#24. A woman who had fallen out of love with her life
Jhumpa Lahiri
#25. We dig holes for ourselves, of comfortable living, and it's hard to see just how deep down you are until you suddenly want to take a look at the world up there, some fresh air
and realise you can't get up. You're too far down.
Charlotte Eriksson
#26. Sometimes I feel like all the crap in the world is building up inside me, like all the bad is just filling me like a balloon. I push it all back, live my happy life.
But sometimes that balloon exposed and all the crap lands on everything around me.
Keary Taylor
#27. When your heart is broken, it's easier to follow rules
Betsy Cornwell
#28. It's like I have this large black hole in my brain and it's sucking the life out of me. The answers are in there so I sit for hours and stare. No matter how hard and long I look, I only see darkness.
Katie McGarry
#29. After you were born, someone turned on a tap. At first it was only a drip, a black drip, and I felt it as sadness. I had felt sad before ... who hasn't ? I knew what it was like. But I didn't know that it would come like that, for no reason. I lived with it for weeks.
Jerry Pinto
#30. Out of the seven billion people sharing the planet with her, not one of them knew what was going through her head. Not one of them knew she was lost. Not one of them asked.
Amy Zhang
#31. 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
#32. There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost.
Claire North
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
John Keats
#37. I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.
Ashly Lorenzana
#38. 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
#39. You can't get out of life alive, so you may as well have a good time.
Les Brown
#40. 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
#41. It was really hard to stay positive. And that's normally a talent of mine.
Paige Harbison
#42. 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
#45. 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
#47. Let it go and learn from the process.
Nash
#48. Sometimes bliss can only be found in the serenity of darkness.
Saim .A. Cheeda
#49. Sorrow on another's face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#50. Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.
Jasmine Warga
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.
Phoebe Stone
#55. When everything seems to be going wrong with you, you must remember the airplane takes off against the wind
Sunday Adelaja
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. There's no saving him from his deep hole. There's no saving me from my black slug.
Jasmine Warga
#61. ( ... ) Since I was a kid."
"Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'"
"Right.
Ned Vizzini
#62. Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.
Nicole Krauss
#64. I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.
Ned Vizzini
#65. At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.
Osamu Dazai
#66. Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand.
Flavia Weedn
#67. The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question one is merely admitting to a store of unsatisfied libido to which something else must have happened, a kind of fermentation leading to sadness and depression.
Sigmund Freud
#68. 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
#69. My heart is sinking and my chest physically aches from the heavy sadness that it carries within.
Shannon Perry
#70. For me, this is old. I probably know what is happening better than he does because I've tried over and over to wreck myself on another human, and always failed. I fail now. For it seems that my sorrow is deep in my bones and I'd have to break every single one to let it out.
Louise Erdrich
#71. Emma is not a person; Emma is a place that you get stuck in; Emma is a pain that you cannot erase.
Justin Vernon
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. Sometimes, people meant it when they smiled. Other times, they smiled because they wanted to mean it.
Shannon A. Thompson
#76. She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface
Diane Chamberlain
#77. Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?
Tom Sturridge
#78. Even among familiar faces, people often feel invisible and desolate, like an island in cold waters or a shadow apart from the crowd. Be the reason another never feels alone.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#79. Rebuke
Obstinate regression
bringing untold paths
of deep dark foreboding
depression...
Muse
#80. 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
#81. Moisture falls from the sky, cleansing the world and sustaining precious life. But it's the gloom - the cold, dark air - that receives notice. We fail to see the miracle of raindrops through our own tears.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#82. The sight of such aching beauty would infuse his soul with pain.
Tabitha Suzuma
#83. 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
#85. See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.
Paulo Coelho
#86. I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.
Osamu Dazai
#87. 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
#88. I hate sadness. Anything is better than sadness. Even feeling nothing.
Rebekah Crane
#89. To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.
Peter Heller
#90. Depression is a Virus,
handling it Once, Builds Your Immunity to it.
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. Her initial elation had given way to something unexpected: a heightened sadness. Even depression.
Mitch Albom
#95. 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
#96. When someone close to you dies, you feel like you might die too. It takes some of the life out of you for a time.
Lisa Bedrick
#97. Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.
Jasmine Warga
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. There's no shame in honest suffering, my dear.
Andrea Cremer
