Life is full of ups and downs, it represents a mix of victories and failures that everyone has to face. Sometimes you will have a bad day and you need to learn how to cope with it. Depression is common among the majority of people, no matter the social status, finances, age, gender, education, religion or where they come from.
It is a complex state where a person is in a bad mood, very sad, unmotivated, hopeless, feels lonely and unloved. Depression can affect personal health and lead to insomnia, chronic pain, abnormal appetite, problems with digestion, headaches, low energy… Since it has an impact on people’s behavior and productivity, work, school, family and other things can be affected.
It is very important for everyone to be aware that life isn’t perfect and that it is completely normal to feel blue, but happiness is always around the corner. Emotions are not easy to control, which is why it is necessary to ask friends and family for help since they may cheer you up, or for more serious cases of depression, you might need to consider visiting a specialist in order to regain your health.
Here are some of the deepest depressing quotes.
- ’I might be alive, but I’m dead on the inside.’
- ’Happiness can struggle to find placement in one’s broken heart.’
- ’I’m lost in a sea full of sharks, with no one to save me.’
- ’Sadness comforts me when happiness can’t.’
- ’Those who fade never intended to stay.’
- ’Fight the devil and become a devil.’
- ’Don’t judge my choices without understanding my reasons.’
- ’I’m slowly giving up.’
- ’I hate that I’m still hoping.’
- ’I am nothing but fragile bones and tears.’
- ’Sometimes, the biggest smiles contain the most pain.’
- ’Care too little, you’ll lose them. Care too much, you’ll get hurt.’
- ’There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.’
- ’To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.’
- ’Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.’
- ’I love you and that’s the beginning and end of everything.’
- ’When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.’
- ’I’m surrounded by so many people, yet I feel so alone.’
- ’You know its love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.’
- ’To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.’
- ’All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you’ll be quite a lot!’
- ’From the moment we are born, we begin to die.’
- ’Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.’
- ’Maybe I’d always been broken and dark inside.’
- ’I can’t think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose.’
- ’It’s a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor, never knowing when the light will go on.’
- ’Wanting to be happy is not the worst thing in the world, but wanting it badly enough to make us depressed is.’
- ’The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.’
- ’You have moved my world when you came, but you made it shake when you left.’
- ’The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.’
- ’ The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.’
- ’Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. ’
- ’I need one of those long hugs where you kinda forget whatever else is happening around you for a minute.’
- ’You’re not a bad person for the ways you tried to kill your sadness.’
- ’Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.’
- ’Today my forest is dark. The trees are sad and all the butterflies have broken wings.’
- ’When depression takes over and I can’t push through it, I have to close my door and shut the world out. It’s the only way I know how to survive.’
- ’When you’re depressed you don’t control your thoughts, your thoughts control you. I wish people would understand this.’
- ’Sleep just doesn’t sleep anymore, it’s an escape.’
- ’ It feels like everyone else is moving on with their lives while I am stuck here, in this hole that I can’t climb out of.’
- ’Depression exists without you knowing it, even denying it. It is not an illusion. You don’t even know you’re in it. It takes a while before you realize it.’
- ’You will feel better than this, maybe not yet, but you will. You just keep living until you are alive again.’
- ’My body and heart weren’t made for this. I’m tired of being tired and I’m tired of being sad.’
- ’Nobody ever tells you that emptiness weighs the most.’
- ’I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can’t get away from it.’
- ’ There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.’
- ’My life is just one constant battle between wanting to be alone, but not wanting to be lonely.’
- ’I want to be happy but something inside me screams that I do not deserve it.’
- ’ Sometimes you just need someone to tell you you’re not as terrible as you think you are.’
- ’ Depression makes you isolated. It’s very hard to think of other people when you’re wrapped in a prickly blanket of sadness and all you can think about is your own pain.’
- ’ Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.’
- ’ Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.’
- ’They flank me – Depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show their badges. I know these guys very well.’
- ’People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong for too long.’
- ’ You can see many smiles every day, but you can never know whose world is actually upside down.’
- ’ I guess that’s what saying good-bye is always like–like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you’re in the air, there’s nothing you can do but let go.’
- ’This is what it felt like to have a broken heart. It felt less like a cracking down the middle and more like she had swallowed it whole and it sat bruised and bleeding in the pit of her stomach.’
- ’The sun kept on with its slipping away, and I thought how many small good things in the world might be resting on the shoulders of something terrible.’
- ’As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.’
- ’What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.’
- ’Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.’
- ’People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.’
- ’ You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief. But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.’
- ’Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.’
- ’Everyone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.’
- ’ I did everything right for someone who does everything wrong.’
- ’ Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.’
- ’ I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.’
- ’Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.’
- ’ There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.’
- ’There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.’
- ’Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.’
- ’The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.’
- ’There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.’
- ’Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear.’
- ’ Depression makes me hate the world, but it gives me a million things to think.’
- ’ Feeling heartache may make it seem like the world is coming to an end, but it isn’t. It is our past lives making way for a new one.’
- ’ Being in despair doesn’t mean it’s the end of the world, it just gives you a new beginning.’
- ’I don’t hate you for loving you. I just hate my heart for choosing someone like you.’
- ’Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.’
- ’I’m not always depressed: only when I think and feel.’
- ’It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.’
- ’Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.’
- ’ At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.’
- ’No matter what you do, time ticks on…and one day it’s over.’
- ’ I can always forgive; I can never forget.’
- ’ She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there–like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.’
- ’As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.’
- ’A lot of you cared, just not enough.’
- ’Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of self-pity and pain.’
- ’Dead people receive more flowers than living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.’
- ’People don’t get what they deserve. They just get what they get, and there’s nothing any of us can do about it.’
- ’And I knew it was bad when I woke up in the mornings and the only thing I looked forward to was going back to bed.’
- ’Trust is like a paper. Once it’s crumbled, it can never be perfect again.’
- ’Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.’
- ’The difference between you and me is that when you wake up, your nightmare ends.’
- ’One day, your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.’
- ’Eyes without light, too tired of goodbyes. Never felt embraced and frightened of every face.’
- ’What happens when the one who broke your heart is the only one who can fix it?’
- ’ When people see good, they expect good and I don’t want to live up to anyone’s expectations.’
- ’ I wanted to write down exactly what I felt but somehow the paper stayed empty and I could not have described it any better.’
- ’ Most of the time, people may feel inadequate, not enough. They feel that they are not enough for others, which may make them feel useless, like broken things. They feel that they have no utility anymore because they feel dispirited.’
- ’ I know of so little, that the strings of my piano are dusty, the depression does not let it touch.’
- ’ Sometimes the girl who’s always been there for everyone else needs someone to be there for her.’
- ’ Every thought is a battle. Every breath is a war, and I don’t think I’m winning anymore.’
- ’ She says she’s fine but she’s going insane. She says she feels good but she’s in a lot of pain. She says it’s nothing but it’s really a lot. She says she’s okay, but really she’s not.’
- ’ What you are seeing now is not what it always is. It is just like pain. It might not seem visible, however, deep inside, it is just so much to take.’
- ’ I am willing to wait for you until the day I can forget you or until the day you realize that you want me back into your life.’
- ’ Sometimes, no matter how you tried your best to forget your past, there are instances where the past will keep on coming back and will always give you something that will remind you about the pain that goes with it.’
- ’ Some of the most painful scars are the ones that cannot be seen.’
- ’ The one thing that’s worse than being hated is to be ignored by someone you love.’