800 Relatable Depression Quotes That Capture What You're Feeling

1. “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.”

2. “Don’t let your struggle become your identity.”

3. “When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of distress and anxiety; If I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without any pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret in this for anyone who can grasp it.”

4. “Awareness is the first step in healing.” – Dean Ornish

5. “I mean, I look back now and realize that I was unprepared for what my emotions and body and energy level would, you know, consist of…There’s not enough, in my opinion, not enough working mothers who kind of talk about who they leaned on and how they got through that difficult time.” – Amy Poehler

6. “She’s battling things her smile will never tell you about.” – Jonny Ox

7. “Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.” – Virat Kohli

8. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller

9. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

10. “Be your own best advocate. Only you know how you feel. Don’t hide away from what you need because society tells you it isn’t “manly” to ask for help. Find what helps you and commit to it. It takes real strength to admit that you need help and take action. “

11. “I was depressed because I was nothing. And I couldn’t become something again because I was depressed. I was stuck in quicksand.”― Abhaidev12. “When your past shows up to haunt you, make sure it comes after supper so it doesn’t ruin your whole day.”― Jay Wickre

13. “Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, leave and let the sea be you.”

14. “I can’t describe what I’m feeling. I’m not happy, and I know that. But I’m also not exactly sad either. I’m just caught right in between all these emotions, and I feel so empty.”

15. “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

16. “Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today. Be thankful for the hard times, they can only make you stronger.” — Keanu Reeves

17. “Sometimes, you have to choose between planting roots or growing wings.”

18. “A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life’s gas-pipe with a lighted candle.” ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

19. “This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.”― Cammie McGovern

20. “The monsters were never

21. “This miry slough is a place that can’t be repaired. It is a low-lying place where the scum and filth that come with the conviction of sin drain and collect as the traveling sinner becomes aware of his lost condition. It is the fears, doubts, and discouraging apprehensions about oneself that arise in his soul.”

22. “A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl.”

23. “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

24. “Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.”–Someone

25. “Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”― Stephen Fry

26. “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” – Honore de Balzac

27. “Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth

28. “It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed.”

29. I have depression. But I prefer to say, ‘I battle’ depression instead of ‘I suffer’ with it. Because depression hits, but I hit back. Battle on.”

30. “You will feel better than this, maybe not yet, but you will. You just keep living until you are alive again.” – CALL THE MIDWIFE

31. “These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”

32. “Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one’s taking.” – Douglas Coupland

33. “The scientific evidence is clear that exercise significantly reduces depression and anxiety.” – Johann Hari

34. “When you have come to the edge of all light that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.” – Patrick Overton

35. The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time. – Louis-Ferdinand Céline

36. “Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves.” (Eric Sevareid)

37. “You say you’re ‘depressed’ – all I see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective – it just means you’re human.”—David Mitchell

38. “A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you’re in a room full of a million people.” — Lilly Singh39. “But you, oh Lord, are a shield about me, my glory and the lifter of my head.”

40. “Depression is melancholy minus its charms.” — Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor

41. “Is there something wrong with that?”

42. 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. – Leonard Cohen

43. “I have only been having counseling sessions with Iris for a couple of months but she has already made such a difference to my life. I've learned so much about how to manage the depression which has affected my life for so long. I feel like a normal functioning person for the first time in ages and if I do go through a bad spell, I know how to get myself back to normal. It's not an easy journey to break habits of a lifetime but Iris is very friendly, non-judgemental and encouraging. She is sympathetic, a good listener and makes me feel like I can beat this illness.”

44. “Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.” – Byron Dorgan

45. “At times, I feel overwhelmed, and my depression leads me into darkness.” – Dorothy Hamill

46. “The one thing that’s worse than being hated is to be ignored by someone you love.”

47. “The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.” – Alfred Adler

48. “When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So, I did ten times more work.” — George Bernard Shaw

49. “Depression is like a war – you either win or die trying.” —Anonymous

50. “Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.” — Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

51. As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth. – Edward Abbey

52. Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. – Alan Cohen

53. “New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”

54. “No matter how dark the night may get, your light will never burn out.”

55. “You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”— Louise L. Hay

56. The thing about depression is that, if you’re not the one who’s actually suffering from it, there’s very little you can do to be proactive. If someone in your family is depressed, all you can really do is send them to a shrink, get them their meds, be gentle, and wait. – Sarah Silverman

57. “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

58. “Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.”

59. “Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.” – Michael Diamond60. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

61. “I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed.” ― Katie McGarry

62. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Dennis P. Kimbro

63. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Author Unknown

64. “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” -Laurell K. Hamilton

65. You say you’re ‘depressed’ – all I see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective – it just means you’re human.- David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

66. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” — Barack Obama

67. “Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.“ – Siri Hustvedt

68. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

69. Everyone goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. – Voltaire

70. “The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud.” – Goldie Hawn

71. “That feeling when you’re not necessarily sad, but you just feel really empty.”

72. “Until you’ve had depression I don’t think you’re qualified to talk about it.” — Geoffrey Boycott

73. “Embrace the void and have the courage to exist.”― Dan Howell

74. “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.” – Anne Lamott

75. “I am heartbroken, I am hurting and I am terribly sad and depressed. I have been crying all day and night, but I do not want to let this ruin my life.”

76. “The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first, you must have the mud – the obstacles of life and its suffering… “ – Goldie Hawn

77. “Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.” – Philip K. Dick

78. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” – Abraham Lincoln

79. Best Positive Quotes For Depression And Anxiety

80. “Depression could bring people closer to their loved ones, but so as funerals.”

81. “You say you’re ‘depressed’ — all I see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective; it just means you’re human.” — David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

82. You don’t think in depression that you’ve put on a gray 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

83. “Depression is melancholy minus its charms – the animation, the fits.” – Susan Sontag

84. “You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be for having cancer or cardiovascular disease or a car accident.”

85. “The faster you accept reality, the faster you find peace of mind.” – Maxime Lagacé

86. “There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.”

87. “Caught in your youniverse again? Try reaching out to the one besides you!”― Stefan Emunds

88. “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”

89. “One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.” – Linda Poindexter

90. “I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else – but I’m absolutely nothing special.” – Clive Barker

91. “It’s difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness”. – J.K. Rowling

92. “Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” — Buddha

93. “I don’t think people understand how stressful it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself.”

94. Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart. – William C. Hannan

95. “Suffering has been stronger than all other teachings and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” – Charles Dickens96. “Even from a dark night, songs of beauty can be born.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

97. “I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”― Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins

98. “Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you’d clicked ‘Send’.” – Faraaz Kazi

99. “What a plot twist you were.” – faraway

100. “We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in.” – Alan Watts

101. “I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about If you loved me you would.” – Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

102. “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by a**holes.” —Debihope103. “I Throw it All Away”

104. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.” — James Branch Cabell

105. “The people that are quick to walk away are the ones who never intended to stay.”

106. “I don’t want to do anything. I don’t even want to start this day because then I’ll just be expected to finish it.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

107. “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, It’s Kind of a Funny Story

108. “You don’t have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.” – Gilbert Baker

109. “Depression engulfs all your thoughts. The world seems like a dark place, with no hope, no light. Other things that seemed interesting once now seem dull and hopeless.”

110. “I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear.”

111. Feeling lost? Take a dream and convert it into small goals, then start taking the steps to hit those goals. – Dave Ramsey

112. “It is okay to have depression, it is okay to have anxiety and it is okay to have an adjustment disorder. We need to improve the conversation. We all have mental health in the same way we all have physical health.” — Prince Harry

113. “People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong too long.” – Johnny Depp

114. “Lovers have heartaches that can’t be cured by drugs or sleep, or games, but only by seeing their beloved.”

115. “The Lord hears his people when they call to him for help. He rescues them from all their troubles.”

116. “When you’re depressed you don’t control your thoughts, your thoughts control you. I wish people would understand this.”

117. “Storms make trees take deeper roots.”

118. I don’t want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn. And nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong. Something so huge I can’t even see it. Something that’s drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid. Without worth. I might as well be dead. – Margaret Atwood

119. “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” – Clive Barker

120. “Let silence take you to the core of life.”

121. “Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.” —Chuck Palahniuk, writer

122. “Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing yourself to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.” – Anonymous

123. “Whoever has heart’s doors wide open, could see the sun itself in every atom.”

124. “Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication.” – Gail Devers

125. “As a human that has a diagnosis of major depressive disorder, and a mental health advocate and educator, one quote I say a LOT both to myself and when I am teaching is: ‘Feelings aren’t facts but feelings do have power.’ In other words, when I am feeling really down or when my depression kicks in, I have to remind myself that the feelings that I am feeling—no, I can’t build a house with them, they are ‘just feelings.’ BUT, if I don’t listen to them, if I don’t take care of myself, then I am giving that feeling a TON of power that it does not deserve.” – Archie Messersmith-Bunting, M.S., MHFA, mental wellness coach

126. “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.”

127. “At heart, I have always been a coper, I’ve mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I’ve ever stored up my deep depressive episodes for the weeks off when there was time to have an abbreviated version of a complete breakdown.”

128. “my mother, poor fish,

129. “Wisdom tells us we are not worthy; love tells us we are. My life flows between the two.”

130. “Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.” ― Philip K. Dick

131. “It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitably lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?” ― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

132. “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

133. “There is a difference between depression and sadness. I am happy to be sad.”― Amanda Mosher

134. “Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.” — Stephen Fry

135. “Doubt comes when your energy is low, when the body and mind feel exhausted. Someone who is full of enthusiasm or energy does not get doubts.” ~ Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

136. “Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don't kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long, hard struggle to stay alive. When somebody dies after a long illness, people are apt to say, with a note of approval, "He fought so hard." And they are inclined to think, about a suicide, that no fight was involved, that somebody simply gave up. This is quite wrong.”

137. “I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.” ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (see all suicide quotes to inspire prevention)

138. “My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”

139. “When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.” – Fiona Apple

140. “Hard work always wins in the end.” – Lucas Till

141. “If you are feeling depressed and you are asked how you are feeling, sometimes it is better to answer you are fine than to make people know the real feelings and be haunted by the pain that goes with it.”

142. “Once you choose hope, anything is possible.”

143. “You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk” – Alan Alda

144. “Some hustle for respect. Some hustle for love. Others hustle for truth. We all hustle to survive.” – Unknown

145. “Do not stumble on something behind you.” – Seneca

146. “If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.” — Lao Tzu

147. “Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.” Jasmine Warga

148. “Depression on my right, loneliness on my left. They do not need to show me their badges, because ever since you left, I have known these things so well.”

149. “Never put yourself in a situation where you have to shoulder the burden alone… Talk to someone about what you are going through. Find positive things/activities to do and channel your energy and emotion into it.”150. “I asked Santa to Put You Under My Tree This Morning. Where Are You? LOL”

151. “It is very hard to explain to people who have never known serious depression or anxiety the sheer continuous intensity of it. There is no off switch.” – Matt Haig

152. “Therapy is not a ‘white thing.’ It’s a clinical thing.” – Rosie Perez

153. “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”

154. “Some friends don’t understand this. They don’t understand how desperate I am to have someone say, ‘I love you and I support you just the way you are because you’re wonderful just the way you are.’ They don’t understand that I can’t remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about if you loved me you would.” — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

155. “Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live.”― Elizabeth Wurtzel

156. “Keep calm and jingle on.” -Anonymous

157. “I wanted to talk about it. Damn it. I wanted to scream. I wanted to yell. I wanted to shout about it. But all I could was whisper “I’m fine.”- Unknown.

158. “The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.” – Unknown

159. “Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.” — Madeleine L’Engle

160. “It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.”

161. “I wanted to talk about it. Damn it. I wanted to scream. I wanted to yell. I wanted to shout about it. But all I could was a whisper, I’m fine.”

162. “Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” – Charles Spurgeon

163. “Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” – Robert Green Ingersoll164. “We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”165. “If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking ”

166. “That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end.― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

167. “Bipolar robs you of that which is you. It can take from you the very core of your being and replace it with something that is completely opposite of who and what you truly are. Because my bipolar went untreated for so long, I spent many years looking in the mirror and seeing a person I did not recognize or understand. Not only did bipolar rob me of my sanity, but it robbed me of my ability to see beyond the space it dictated me to look. I no longer could tell reality from fantasy, and I walked in a world no longer my own.”

168. “Don’t fight your emotions; learn to acknowledge them.” — Ray Giunta

169. “When we calm our mind, our thoughts, our complete being, we create in and around us a beautiful glow of positivity and peace.” – Zeenat Merchant Syal

170. “Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear." — C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

171. “Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.” – Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

172. “Sometimes just the thought of facing the day, feels like broken glass in my soul.”

173. “I was born with a great awareness of my surroundings and other people… Sometimes that awareness is good, and sometimes I wish I wasn’t so sensitive.” — Scarlett Johansson

174. “During the depression, the world disappears — language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?”

175. “To me, at one time, depression made me feel like I was trying to move through a foot-deep layer of peanut butter. The simplest things took enormous effort. Getting up. Brushing my hair. Putting on makeup was the worst. Maybe that was because I was trying so hard to look normal when inside I felt like I was dying. When I was told depression was caused by bottled-up anger, I was horrified! Me? angry? I was never allowed to be angry. And then the dam burst and anger flowed out in every direction. Then came the task of learning how to manage this powerful force that I was turning on those around me. Someone who’s never been depressed cannot possibly understand. Others just want you to act normal, perform normally, not rock the boat. Medication can help. It helped me. But it’s not the whole answer. Eventually, depression and anger introduced me to my true self in exchange for exposing and discarding the false self I’d been wearing for so many years…a gift!” – Nancy Landrum, MA, Author and Relationship Coach

176. “Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.” – Henry Ward Beecher

177. “I don’t want to die. Really, I don’t. It’s not a lie. I’m not suicidal. I just feel like sometimes I can’t keep myself from hurting me. It’s like there’s someone else inside of me who needs to physically peel those bad thoughts out of my head and there’s no other way to get in there. The physical pain distracts me from the mental pain.”

178. “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

179. “It doesn't get better," I said. "The pain. The wounds scab over and you don't always feel like a knife is slashing through you. But when you least expect it, the pain flashes to remind you you'll never be the same.”

180. “Nobody understands another’s sorrow, and nobody another’s joy.”

181. “I remain someone of little consequence, as if nothing more than dandelion fluff caught on a breeze.”― Kelly Moran

182. “You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” — Steve Maraboli

183. “I’m not better, you know. The weight hasn’t left my head. I feel how easily I could fall back into it, lie down and not eat, waste my time and curse wasting my time, look at my homework and freak out and go and chill at Aaron’s, look at Nia and be jealous again, take the subway home and hope that it has an accident, go and get my bike and head to the Brooklyn Bridge. All of that is still there. The only thing is, it’s not an option now. It’s just… a possibility, like it’s a possibility that I could turn to dust in the next instant and be disseminated throughout the universe as an omniscient consciousness. It’s not a very likely possibility.”

184. “In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.”185. “It’s not always the tears that measure the pain. Sometimes it’s the smile we fake.”

186. “I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”― Henry Rollins

187. “When you’re depressed, you don’t control your thoughts; your thoughts control you. I wish people would understand this.”

188. “Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.“ – Pythagoras

189. “Healing is not linear.”

190. “I’ve got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts – you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn’t do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.” ― D.D. Barant, Dying Bites

191. “Good things happen to those who hustle.” – Anais Nin

192. ‘Tis The Season To Be Freezin’

193. “If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.” —Lao Tzu, philosopher194. “Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It’s always there, though.” ―Jeffrey Eugenides

195. “All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.”196. I’m broken from the inside. The depression that has slowly eaten away at me has finally consumed me, and I couldn’t beat it. – Kim Jonghyun

197. Resilience: “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” ~ Confucius

198. “I think one thing is that anybody who’s had to contend with mental illness – whether it’s depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever – actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they’ve had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.” – Kay Redfield Jamison

199. “The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding.” – Timothy Leary

200. “Life is way too short to spend it at war with yourself.” – Unknown201. “I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?” ― Laurie Halse Anderson

202. “Work harder than you think you did yesterday” – Unknown

203. “There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.” – Miriam Toews

204. “I’m hurt, and I’m heartbroken, and I’m sad, and I’m depressed, and I have been crying, but I don’t want to let it ruin my life.”

205. Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. – Regina Brett

206. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller

207. “The worst kind of pain is when you’re smiling just to stop the tears for falling.”

208. “If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking.” – Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

209. “It’s not too late to recover. You are young, you are tough. You are adaptable. You can patch up your wounds, lift up your head and move on.” – Haruki Murakami210. “The head worries and the heart feels. They cannot function at the same time. When your feelings dominate, worry dissolves.” ~ Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

211. “On the path of love, we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the master painter.”

212. “That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible ever to see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.”

213. “If depression is creeping up and must be faced, learn something about the nature of the beast: You may escape without a mauling.” – Dr. R. W. Shepherd

214. “Mental health…is not a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.” – Noam Shpancer

215. “It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.” – Harry S Truman

216. “Depression is melancholy minus its charms.” ―Susan Sontag

217. “Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.” – Leonardo da Vinci

218. “When you suffer from depression, “I’m tired” means a permanent state of exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix.”

219. “[Slow breathing] is like an anchor in the midst of an emotional storm: the anchor won’t make the storm goes away, but it will hold you steady until it passes. — Russ Harris

220. “I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.” – Charles Dickens

221. “The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature.” -Andy Rooney

222. “In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love.”

223. “Depression is the overwhelming sense of numbness and the desire for anything that can help you make it from one day to the next.”

224. “You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective – it just means you’re human.” – David Mitchell

225. “If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.”

226. “Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one’s own skilled action.” – Robert M. Sapolsky

227. It was against my principles and all, but I was feeling so depressed I didn't even think. That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.” — J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

228. “Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice. It takes love.” – Maza Dohta

229. “I’d rather hustle 24/7 than slave 9 to 5.” – Unknown

230. “If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.” — Stephen Fry

231. “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” ― John Keats

232. “Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.” – Adam Ant

233. “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” Alexander Pope234. “When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.”

235. “Anticipate good things will happen, keep your mind positive, never lose hope, and it will amaze you.” – C Pulsifer

236. “Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.” – Meister Eckhart

237. “Saying “I’m tired” when you’re actually sad.”

238. “There is no point 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.” ― Barbara Kingsolver

239. “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.”

240. “Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage.”

241. “I used to fell a lot of guilt about having depression but then I realized that’s a lot like feeling guilty for having brown hair.”

242. “How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”

243. “Good humor is a tonic for the mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.” – Grenville Kleiser , fighting depressing quotes about friends244. “The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”

245. “I wish it would rain all day; maybe that would make the pain go away.”

246. ‘Til He appeared and the Soul Felt Its Worth

247. “This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.”

248. “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not surrounded by assholes.” – Sigmund Freud

249. “So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key.” – The Eagles

250. “Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you.” – Aldous Huxley

251. “Whether an illness affects your heart, your arm, or your brain, it’s still an illness, and there shouldn’t be any distinction. We would never tell someone with a broken leg that they should stop wallowing and get it together. We don’t consider taking medication for an ear infection something to be ashamed of. We shouldn’t treat mental health conditions any differently. Instead, we should make it clear that getting help isn’t a sign of weakness – it’s a sign of strength – and we should ensure that people can get the treatment they need.” —Michelle Obama, former first lady

252. “Crying is cleansing. There’s a reason for tears of happiness and of sadness.”

253. “At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.” – Nigella Lawson

254. “You got this. One day at a time. You are resilient, courageous, and capable. Be proud of yourself. It isn’t easy enduring depression/anxiety.” – The Anxiety Man (@RealAnxietyMan)

255. “But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience, etc.” – Bob Geldof

256. Change will come: “Life is a combination of happiness and pain. Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional. Having a broad perspective on life gives you the strength to move forward through painful times. Know that you are very much needed in this world. With all its infinite possibilities, this life is a gift for it can become a fountain of joy and happiness not just for oneself but for many others as well.” ~ Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

257. “I didn’t eat. I stayed in my room. I was in a really bad place in life, going through that lonely period: ‘Who am I? Who are friends? My life changed.'” – Beyonce258. “I understand your pain. Trust me, I do. I’ve seen people go from the darkest moments in their lives to living a happy, fulfilling life. You can do it too. I believe in you. You are not a burden. You will NEVER BE a burden.” – Sophie Turner

259. “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

260. “When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.” — Fiona Apple

261. “I’m the type of girl who smiles to make everyone’s day. Even though I’m dying on the inside.”

262. “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” – Jim Rohn

263. “One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don’t have prior awareness, you don’t have any idea what hit you.” – Kay Redfield Jamison

264. “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

265. “I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time, and I am quite proud that I got out of that.” –

266. “The only thing more exhausting than being depressed is pretending that you’re not.”

267. “In a moment of clarity, out of nowhere, I saw that when I believed my thoughts I suffered and when I questioned my thoughts I didn’t suffer, and I have come to see that this is true for every human being. – Bryon Katie

268. “Fight for your dreams, and your dreams will fight for you.”

269. “She has love in her words, pain in her silence.” – Laura Jane

270. “Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I’ve made that commitment for my life’s sake and for the sake of those who love me.” — Susan Polis Schutz, poet

271. “Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.” – Mariska Hargitay

272. “At some point, you will realize that some people can choose to stay in your heart but never in your life.”

273. “Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”274. “I’ve had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I’d rather not talk about it, because it’s over. But depression is real.” – Henri Nouwen275. “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.” – Og Mandino

276. “It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.”

277. “The waves of pincer-like pain keep pummeling your brain as your body is dragged down, down, down onto the inky, cold depths of the ocean floor, choking you.”

278. “I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.” – Tom Freston

279. “Being sad and being depressed are two different things. Also, people going through depression don’t look so, while someone sad will look sad. The most common reaction is, ‘How can you be depressed? You have everything going for you. You are the supposed number one heroine and have a plush home, car, movies… What else do you want?'” —Deepika Padukone, Indian actress

280. “Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another… It’s all praise, and it’s all right.”

281. “Fra-gee-lay. Must Be Italian.”

282. “It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.” – Richard Evans

283. “But what about self-esteem?”

284. “I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.” — John Keats

285. “Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.” (Dr. Seuss)

286. “Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.”—Viktor E. Frankl

287. “There is no point 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.” ―Barbara Kingsolver

288. “It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties, artificial . . . Christmas trees . . . but future generations in search of their lost Christmases may well remember its innocence; yes, and its beauty, too.” – Paul Gallico

289. In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known—no wonder, then, that I return the love. – Søren Kierkegaard

290. “Acquainted with the Night

291. “Rocks in my path, I keep them all. With them, I shall build my castle.”292. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller

293. “Instead of wiping your tears away, wipe the people who create them instead.”

294. “Maybe all you need to pull you back from the ledge is to know someone would miss you if you fell.”― Leah Raeder

295. “You don’t just wake up one day and find that everything has worked itself out. You must get out of bed, morning after morning, and make a conscious effort to control the circumstances of that given day.”296. “I Felt So Shaken Up”: Woman Leaves Family Trip After Eavesdropping On Husband’s Conversation With Mother-In-LawSomeone Asks "What Makes You Not Want To Have Kids?" And 30 People Deliver Sincere Answers

297. “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

298. “As a mid-twenties professional working woman fresh out of college, depression was a huge detriment not only to my mental health but my financial stability. Choosing to go to therapy and get the professional help I needed has been the single best decision I’ve made in the last several years and has really turned my life around. In September I was depressed and constantly suicidal to the point that my boyfriend refused to let me get off the phone sometimes because he was afraid of what I would do to myself. Mid-September was when I started therapy and got on some antidepressant medication and it has revolutionized my life. I’ve been working through childhood trauma that I barely remembered but what I’ve discovered has had a huge impact on my adult life, and today I’m consistently able to find that even the darkest days aren’t debilitating even though the brightest days were depressing a few months ago.

299. “Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again — the absence of hope.

300. “Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”

301. “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” – Dr. Henry Link

302. “Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.”

303. “Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.” – Linda Wooten

304. “Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.”

305. “Every emotion has a story to tell.” – k. tolnoe

306. “Like most people who’ve never experienced it, your view of depression is optimistically misguided.”

307. “It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.”

308. “That depressing feeling when you feel you are important to someone and realize you are not.”

309. “Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.” — Matt Lucas

310. “No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.” – George Chakiris

311. “Being a new mother is supposed to be the happiest time of your life, but postpartum depression and anxiety strip that away for a time, but trust that it will not last forever.” – Judy Dippel

312. “Almost everyone is overconfident—except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.” ― Joseph T. Hallinan

313. “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

314. “It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.” – Bela Lugosi

315. “One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with manic depression takes a tremendous amount of balls. Not unlike a tour of Afghanistan (though the bombs and bullets, in this case, come from the inside). At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you're living with this illness and functioning at all, it's something to be proud of, not ashamed of.

316. “I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.” ― Sylvia Plath317. “Sometimes, in the midst of heartbreak, you just choose to keep the pain with you because you do not want people to judge you or humiliate you for what you are going through.”

318. “When you’re lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you’ve just wandered off the path, that you’ll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it’s time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don’t even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.” – Elizabeth Gilbert319. “This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started.”

320. “I open up a paper clip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this? A whimper, a peep? I draw little windowcracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting. It looks like I arm-wrestled a rosebush.”

321. It is okay to admit that your wounds are still open. That you are still healing. It takes time. It takes time. - Alison Malee

322. “Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent.” — Elizabeth Wintzel

323. “Last month, as Victor drove me home so I could rest, I told him that sometimes I felt like his life would be easier without me. He paused a moment in thought and then said, ‘It might be easier. But it wouldn’t be better.‘”

324. “Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.” — Andrew Solomon

325. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

326. “Almost everyone is overconfident except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.” – Joseph T. Hallinan327. “Madness is a kind of mental suicide.”

328. “That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible ever to see the end.” – Elizabeth Wurtzel

329. “We all know pain doesn’t exist without some coexisting depression.” — Jerry Hall

330. “I’m exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel.”

331. “Feeling your feelings will not lead to depression.” — Jordan Pickell, MCP RCC

332. “This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.”

333. “No matter how depressed you are or how much pain you’re in, you have to return to your routine, daily life.”

334. “Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.” Dodie Smith

335. “Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don’t stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself sink. Because you’ll never know true happiness until someone or something pulls you back out of that river–and you’ll never believe it until you realize it was you, yourself who saved you.” – Alysha Speer

336. “Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there’s nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.” — Jasmine Warga

337. “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?”

338. “Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.” – Irving Kirsch

339. Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. – Arthur C. Clarke

340. New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. – Lao Tzu

341. “I understand your pain. Trust me, I do. I’ve seen people go from the darkest moments in their lives to living a happy, fulfilling life. You can do it too. I believe in you. You are not a burden. You will NEVER BE a burden.” — Sophie Turner

342. Make your worries bigger! “We should start worrying about the whole world instead of ourselves.” ~ Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

343. “You don’t know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins.”― Rachel Klein

344. There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t. – John Green

345. “Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don’t believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it’s good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.”346. “Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.” — May Sarton

347. “We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell

348. “Nobody ever tells you that emptiness weighs the most.”

349. “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.”

350. Inspirational Quotes On Social Anxiety:

351. “Depression is a gift. The only inconvenience is that you need to wait a few weeks, and sometimes a few years, to appreciate it. Be patient.” – Maxime Lagacé

352. “You say you’re ‘depressed’ – all I see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective – it just means you’re human.” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

353. “Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.” – T. S. Eliot

354. “Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget about everything except what you’re going to do now — and do it.”— William Durant

355. “Just as the triggers for depression are correct and present every day, so are triggers for joy.”― Shaista Tayabali

356. “The more you love yourself, the less nonsense you’ll tolerate.”

357. The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. – Lois Lowry

358. “You should not have to rip yourself into pieces to keep others whole.”

359. “You don’t always have to do stuff or achieve stuff. You don’t have to always spend your free time productively. You don’t have to be doing yoga or painting or bread making. Sometimes you can just be and feel things and get through and eat pasta and survive, and that is more than enough.” – Aisling, Blogger

360. “There’s nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can’t cure.”

361. “Depression isn’t about, ‘Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other’, it’s like having the worst flu all day that you just can’t kick.“ – Robbie Williams

362. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” — Jonathan Safran Foer

363. “A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you’re in a room full of a million people.” – Lilly Singh

364. “Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.” ― Philip K. Dick

365. “Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.” Madeleine L’Engle

366. “There will be so many times you feel like you’ve failed. But in the eyes, heart, and mind of your child, you are super mom.” – Stephanie Precourt

367. “The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!”

368. “When you are happy, you enjoy the music. But, when you are sad you understand the lyrics.’

369. “I don’t want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a slow wave.”

370. “This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”

371. Exercise regularly. Exercise releases endorphins, which have mood-boosting effects. A moderate amount of exercise is the key here – too much or too little can actually worsen your mood and eat a healthy diet in order to feel better..

372. No matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. – Albert Camus

373. “Everything you have ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear.” — George Addair

374. “There is a lot of misunderstanding, and I feel like there’s a lot of people out there who think that it’s not real, that it’s not true, that it is something that is made up in their mind… It’s something that’s completely uncontrollable, and it’s really painful, and it’s really scary, and women need a lot of support.” – Hayden Panettiere

375. “Whatever happens to you, don’t fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can’t see it yet but so many paradises are at the end of this path…Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.”

376. “Postpartum depression is hard to describe — the way the body and mind and spirit fracture and crumble in the wake of what most believe should be a celebratory time. I cringed when I watched my interview on television because of my inability to share authentically what I was going through, what so many women go through. I fear more often than not, for this reason alone, we choose silence. And the danger of being silent means only that others will suffer in silence and may never be able to feel whole because of it.” — Goop

377. “Having anxiety and depression is like being scared and tired at the same time. It’s the fear of failure, but an urge to be productive. It’s wanting friends, but hate socializing. It’s wanting to be alone, but not wanting to be lonely. It’s feeling everything at once then feeling paralyzingly numb.” — Anonymous378. “It is okay to have depression, it is okay to have anxiety and it is okay to have an adjustment disorder. We need to improve the conversation. We all have mental health in the same way we all have physical health.” – Prince Harry

379. “You are strong enough to face it all, even if it doesn’t feel like it right now” – Unknown

380. “At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.” -Thomas Tusser381. “I’ve learned that everything happens for a reason, every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson… Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.”

382. “There’s nothing weak about struggling with mental illness.” – Kristen Bell

383. The only cure I have ever known for fear and doubt and loneliness is an immense love of self.

384. “The dream doesn’t lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.” – Alphonso Jackson

385. “But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.” – Kanye West

386. “Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.”- Jacques Prevert

387. “Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.” ― C.S. Lewis

388. “Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.” – Mariella Frostrup

389. “epression looks normal from the outside, but it devours the person experiencing it on the inside.” — Prateeksha Ranjan

390. “Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.” ― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

391. “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”

392. “I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I’d lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be.” ― Marian Keyes, Anybody Out There?

393. “Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.”

394. “The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.”

395. “Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.”

396. “The way you speak of yourself, the way you degrade yourself, into smallness is abuse.” – RUPI KAUR

397. “It’s hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity.” – Donna Lynn Hope

398. “My hustle is nonstop. I never stop hustling.” – Young Jeezy

399. “My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.”

400. “In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love.” ―Soren Kierkegaard

401. The best way out is always through. – Robert Frost

402. “Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off – then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.” ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

403. “Regular exercise can really help you to reduce your stress levels, anxiety and depression. When you exercise your brain releases endorphins.” — Heather Rose

404. “That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”

405. Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there’s nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression. – Jasmine Warga

406. “Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.” – Stephen Wright

407. “I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.” – Maria Sharapova

408. “I don’t want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a slow wave. Whatever is happening to me is my fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can’t even see it, something that’s drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.”

409. “When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.” —Bernard Meltzer

410. “You are the one thing in this world, above all other things, that you must never give up on. When I was in middle school, I was struggling with severe anxiety and depression and the help and support I received from my family and a therapist saved my life. Asking for help is the first step. You are more precious to this world than you’ll ever know.” — Lili Reinhart

411. “Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.” — Pastor Rick Warren

412. “Even your past pain can be a blessing to someone. Hope lifters are willing to reach back and pass hope on.” – Kathe Wunnenberg

413. “I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn’t take any ability to hustle.” – Wade Boggs

414. “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”

415. “I’m interested in sensitivity and weakness and fear and anxiety because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that’s what we are.” – Alain de Botton

416. “My darling, you hold so much sadness in your eyes, I can almost touch the scars of your soul and cry.” – Alexandra Vasiliu

417. “Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.” – Faraaz Kazi

418. “I know I’ll be alright when we get out.”

419. “I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.” – Maya Angelou

420. “Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It’s always there, though.”

421. “Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.” ― Brené Brown

422. “Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don’t believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it’s good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.” – Andrew Solomon

423. “It is very hard to explain to people who have never known serious depression or anxiety the sheer continuous intensity of it. There is no off switch.” —Matt Haig, journalist

424. “He: What’s the matter with you?

425. “It is tough to explain to people who have never known serious depression or anxiety the sheer continuous intensity of it. There is no off switch.” – Matt Haig

426. “Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”

427. “I think hard work is what gets most people to the top.” – Rupert Sheldrake

428. “Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors…Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat…What then was music created for? Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves? I think I know.” ― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

429. “It was like this weird alien overtook my body and every appropriate response was answered with the antithesis of what you would assume … Postpartum depression takes certain truths and turns them into the worst version of the truth.” – Brooke Shields

430. “I don’t have any formula. I just work with my heart, putting in a lot of hard work.” – Ranbir Kapoor

431. “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”432. “Lots of people think that they’re a failure if their first or eighth cure for depression or anxiety doesn’t work the way they wanted. But an illness is an illness. It’s not your fault if the medication or therapy you’re given to treat your mental illness doesn’t work perfectly, or it worked for a while but then stopped working. You aren’t a math problem. You’re a person.”

433. “Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.”

434. “Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.”435. “Relationships are as fragile as glass. But sometimes, it might be better to leave them broken instead of getting hurt by putting it back altogether.”

436. “Because that’s the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don’t want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lungs. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It’s mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time.” — Stephanie Perkins

437. “The broken will always be able to love harder than most because once you’ve been in the dark, you learn to appreciate everything that shines.” —Anonymous

438. “If you often feel alone, ignored, or forgotten, think about this: closing the door and locking yourself in won’t change anything—literally and figuratively.”― Richelle E. Goodrich

439. “I’m not leaving, bub. Because you’re going to wallow.”440. “There is always hope for a new day, hope that the darkness won’t always seem impenetrable. There is always hope because our Redeemer lives.” – Marcia Laycock

441. “Knowing Oneself comes from attending with compassionate curiosity to what is happening within.” – Dr. Gabor Maté

442. “Sometimes, we assure ourselves that we are okay and that we can go on with life. However, if you look deep within you, you will realize that you are not okay because someone is missing in your life.”

443. “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

444. “naturally, we are all caught in

445. “No amount of sleep could cure the loneliness I feel now that you are no longer here.”

446. “Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons on this treacherous path.”

447. “Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker… anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.” – Frank Bruno

448. “I want to be happy but something inside me screams that I do not deserve it.”

449. “It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother’s lips to kiss you.” – Ouida

450. “A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.” —Pat Riley

451. “I will accept any amount of monsters my mind wants to give to me, but I will not become a monster myself.”

452. “Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.”

453. “I never felt like that before. Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand how you suffer now when you're depressed; I always thought you liked it and I thought you could have snapped yourself out any time, if not alone then by means of the mood organ. But when you get that depressed you don't care. Apathy, because you've lost a sense of worth. It doesn't matter whether you feel better because you have no worth.”

454. “Depression is feeling like you’ve lost something but having no clue when or where you last had it. Then one day you realize what you lost is yourself.” —Unknown

455. “And then it all started to fall apart. Again…”

456. “In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

457. That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end – Elizabeth Wurtzel

458. “Depression has nothing to do with having a bad day or being sad.”

459. “I think if there’s a great depression there might be some hope.” — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

460. “When you’re depressed you don’t control your thoughts, your thoughts control you. I wish people understood that.” — Anonymous

461. “The only thing more exhausting than being depressed is pretending that you’re not.” — Unknown

462. “This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘Be more silent.’ Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you’ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.”

463. “Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.” Leroy Satchel Paige

464. “There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.” – Alan Watts

465. “If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather." — Stephen Fry

466. “Suffering has been stronger than all other teachings and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been

467. “A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you’re in a room full of a million people.” —Lilly Singh

468. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

469. “We just thought we’d check in on you,” said Piglet, “because we hadn’t heard from you, and so we wanted to know if you were okay.”

470. Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. – Leonardo da Vinci

471. “You have to die a few times before you can really live.” – Charles Bukowski

472. “Depression lies. It tells you you’ve always felt this way, and you always will. But you haven’t, and you won’t.“ – Halley Cornell

473. “There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.”

474. “Depression isn’t a war you win. It’s a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It’s one bloody fray after another.”

475. “After every Olympics I think I fell into a major state of depression, and after 2012 that was probably the hardest fall for me. I didn’t want to be in the sport anymore. I didn’t want to be alive anymore. I think people actually finally understand [depression is] real. People are talking about it and I think this is the only way that it can change.” —Michael Phelps

476. “Knock, and He’ll open the door. Vanish, and He’ll make you shine like the sun. Fall, and He’ll raise you to the heavens. Become nothing, and He’ll turn you into everything.”

477. “Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness.

478. “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

479. “What you thought before has led to every choice you have made, and this adds up to you at this moment. If you want to change who you are physically, mentally, and spiritually, you will have to change what you think.” Dr. Patrick Gentempo

480. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

481. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” – Stephen King

482. “The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.” – Sophocles

483. “Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.” – Nadia Comaneci

484. “I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s going to be ok. You’re doing the best you can with what you have. ” – Kierra C.T. Banks

485. “Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It’s always there, though.” ― Jeffrey Eugenides

486. “Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.” – Anaïs Nin

487. “Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden. It is easier to say, “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken”.”

488. “Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.” – Lou Holtz

489. “Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.” – Jasmine Warga

490. “Angry is just sad’s bodyguard.” – Liza Palmer

491. “I bet if you cut open my stomach, the black slug of depression would slide out.”― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

492. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are an entire ocean in a drop.” – Rumi

493. “Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: It is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’ —C.S. Lewis, author

494. “Sleep just isn’t sleep anymore, it’s an escape.”495. “I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.” – Andrew Solomon in The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

496. “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

497. “Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.” – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

498. “She was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute she would be in tears like a porcelain angel, about to teeter, fall and break. She never cried because she was afraid that something 'would' happen; she would cry because she feared something that could render the world more beautiful, 'would not' happen.”

499. “Asagai: Then isn’t there something wrong in a house—in a world—where all dreams, good or bad, must depend on the death of a man?

500. “Having anxiety and depression is like being scared and tired at the same time. It’s the fear of failure, but no urge to be productive. It’s wanting friends, but hate socializing. It’s wanting to be alone, but not wanting to be lonely. It’s feeling everything at once then feeling paralyzingly numb.”

501. “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.” – Don Zimmer

502. “Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”503. “Depression is a flaw in chemistry, not character.”

504. I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim…” — Frida Kahlo

505. “Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.” ―Stephen Fry

506. “During the depression,” said the cowboy to me, “I used to hop freights at least once a month. In those days you’d see hundreds of men riding a flatcar or in a boxcar, and they weren’t just bums, they were all kinds of men out of work and going from one place to another and some of them just wandering.”

507. “I think about dying but I don’t want to die. Not even close. In fact, my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There’s so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I’m still here in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can’t quite figure out what the hell I’m doing or how to get out of it.”

508. “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

509. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”- Confucius

510. “I have a fear of public speaking. It’s very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they’re not my skill, I have to work doubly hard.” – Kerry Stokes

511. “Travelers, it is late. Life’s sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings.”

512. “I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be. Lucky you, lucky me.” – Miller Williams

513. “I want to help people with depression understand that there is hope, so that they can get the help they need to live rich, fulfilling lives.” — Tom Bosley

514. “Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

515. “Just because I can’t explain the feelings causing my anxiety, doesn’t make them less valid.” —Lauren Elizabeth

516. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”

517. “My thoughts are destroying me. I try not to think, but the silence is a killer too.”- Unknown

518. “When you do not get to the root of the problem, you cannot solve it in any meaningful manner.” – Robert Greene

519. “I am just trying to learn how to smile and this is not an easy thing to do when all I think about is you.”

520. “Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.”

521. “I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.” — Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins

522. “The world can ask you to participate, but it’s a day-today decision if you want to agree to that proposal.”― Aimee Bender

523. “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” (Charles Dickens)

524. “The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.”

525. “The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can’t get away from it. Not ever.” – Nina LaCour

526. “Depression is like drowning. Except you can see everyone else around you breathing.”

527. “I am terrified by this dark thing528. “The worst kind of sad is not able to explain why.”

529. “Depression, suffering, and anger are all part of being human.” – Janet Fitch

530. “I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.”

531. “Marigold started going weird again on her birthday. Star remembered that birthdays were often bad times so we’d tried really hard.”

532. “I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.” ―Andrew Solomon533. “The place of true healing is a fierce place. It’s a giant place. It’s a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light. And you have to work really, really, really hard to get there, but you can do it.” – Cheryl Strayed

534. “Depression is colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.”

535. “You will never know how damaged a person is until you try to love them.”

536. “I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I’m so depressed, or life is terrible.” – Tony Curtis

537. “Depression is a kind of constricted consciousness.” – Bill Richards

538. “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

539. “Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.” – David Rockefeller

540. “I don’t want to do anything. I don’t even want to start this day because then I’ll just be expected to finish it.” –

541. Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. – Corrie ten Boom

542. “There is only one way to success. It’s called hard work.” – Unknown543. “Depression doesn’t heal itself and there is no ‘cure,’ which is why ongoing treatment is so important,” says Hanna Simmons, PhD, a clinical psychologist and therapist in Denver, Colorado. “Don’t blame yourself for your mental illness—there are many reasons that it strikes, including trauma, a genetic predisposition, as a side effect of other health conditions, or for no clear reason at all. But focus on doing things that help you feel better and keep moving forward in your life.”

544. “I just think a hustler’s ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I’ll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I’m their hero.” – Young Jeezy

545. I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. – John Keats

546. “Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.” —Parker Palmer

547. “I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here."

548. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

549. “You say you’re ‘depressed’ – all I see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective – it just means you’re human.”550. “There’s no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor’s yard.” – Unknown

551. “Living in the past will make you feel depressed.” – Bert McCoy

552. “I want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too.” – Laurie Halse Anderson

553. “Sleep just doesn’t sleep anymore; it’s an escape.”554. “In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus

555. “You’re like a grey sky. You’re beautiful, even though you don’t want to be.” ― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

556. “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.”557. “I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin

558. That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn’t worry — poetry is still first. Cigarettes and alcohol follow. – Anne Sexton

559. “The five stages – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance – are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

560. “Absolutely.”561. “Depression is like a prison where you are both the cruel jailer and the suffering prisoner.”

562. “The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”

563. “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for peace and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

564. “There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,–when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.” – Kate Chopin

565. I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colors and shades I knew existed. – Katie McGarry

566. Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t. – Stephen King

567. “A Christmas tree–the perfect gift for a guy. The plant is already dead.” – (Jay Leno)

568. What to avoid: “Well, the mantra for depression is - 'What about me, what about me?' One sure technique to get depressed is sitting, doing nothing. If you think, ‘What about me, what about me, what will happen to me?’ You are sure to get depressed this way!” ~ Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

569. “The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering. ... The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. ... Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one. ”

570. “You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.” – Timber Hawkeye

571. “I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.” – Kevin Gates

572. “Every day of our lives, we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.” – Mignon McLaughlin

573. “In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.”

574. “Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place.”

575. Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it’s there if you look deep. – Taraji P. Henson576. “Start by doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” — Saint Francis of Assisi

577. “It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?”

578. “My heart hides so many wounds that never bleed.” – Alexandra Vasiliu

579. “There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,–when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.” ― Kate Chopin

580. “If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill, let yourself fall ill.” ― Jalaluddin Rumi

581. “I am sad all the time, and the sadness is so heavy that I can’t get away from it.”

582. “Whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who is a seeker will be a finder.”

583. “It ain’t our choice to be sad, But it’s our duty to not let depression bite into us” – Omotoso Omotayo Olawande

584. “During your battle with depression, it is important to remember that someday, sometime you will feel better. Someday you would feel awake and alive instead of wanting to feel awake and alive.”

585. “It’s not the feeling of completeness I need, but the feeling of not being empty.”

586. “Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.” – Anais Nin

587. “Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.” —Richard L. Evans

588. “I’m sure I was a huge disappointment. I’m not pretty or smart or athletic. I’m just like them - an ordinary drone dressed in secrets and lies.”

589. “Depression is the inability to construct a future.” — Rollo May

590. “It’s brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.” ― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

591. “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

592. “What we don’t need in the midst of struggle is shame for being human.” – Brene Brown

593. “We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” – Laura Stavoe Harm

594. “The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."

595. “To those struggling with anxiety, OCD, depression: I know it’s mad annoying when people tell you to exercise, and it took me about 16 medicated years to listen. I’m glad I did. It ain’t about the ass, it’s about the brain.” —Lena Dunham, American actress596. “Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it’s never as bad as the insanity you’ve created in your head.” – Ben Huh

597. “It is never too late to live happily ever after.” – Anonymous

598. When you’re feeling anxious, remember that you’re still you. You are not anxiety. Whenever you feel otherwise, remember that’s the anxiety talking. You are still you and hold the power in every moment. – Deanne Repich

599. “You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That you are having a breakdown does not mean that your life isn't a mess. If there are issues you have successfully skirted or avoided for years, they come cropping back up and stare you full in the face, and one aspect of depression is a deep knowledge that the comforting doctors who assure you that your judgment is bad are wrong. You are in touch with the real terribleness of your life. You can accept rationally that later, after the medication sets in, you will be better able to deal with the terribleness, but you will not be free of it. When you are depressed, the past and future are absorbed entirely by the present moment, as in the world of a three-year-old. You cannot remember a time when you felt better, at least not clearly; and you certainly cannot imagine a future time when you will feel better.”

600. “This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”601. “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.”- John Green

602. “Pain is emotional. Depression and fear are always in company with chronic hurting.” – Siri Hustvedt

603. “There is no point 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.” – Barbara Kingsolver

604. “Sometimes I’m sad and tired and miserable for no reason at all.”

605. “It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.” — Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

606. “It’s recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.” – Harry S Truman

607. “It had been quite a difficult pregnancy — I hadn't been very well throughout it — so by the time William arrived it was a great relief because it was all peaceful again, and I was well for a time. Then I was unwell with postnatal depression, which no one ever discusses, postnatal depression, you have to read about it afterwards, and that in itself was a bit of a difficult time. You'd wake up in the morning feeling you didn't want to get out of bed, you felt misunderstood and just very, very low in yourself. … I received a great deal of treatment, but I knew in myself that actually what I needed was space and time to adapt to all the different roles that had come my way. I knew I could do it, but I needed people to be patient and give me the space to do it.” — BBC1, November 1995

608. “I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table and towered high above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers, and everywhere sparkled and glittered with bright objects.” – Unknown

609. Very jaded and tired and depressed and cross…Must fill my mind with air and light, and walk and blanket it in fog.” — Virginia Woolf

610. “Good things come to those who work their asses off and never give up.” – Unknown

611. “Remember that your mental health is closely tied with your physical health. The healthier we live our lives and focus on creating a sustainable, habitual, healthy lifestyle, the easier it is to get through the dark times.”

612. “My moods don’t want just swing-they bounce, pivot, recoil, rebound, oscillate, fluctuate and occasionally pirouette.”

613. “Mental health…is not a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.” – Noam Shpancer, PhD614. “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”

615. “I won’t let my pain turn my heart into something ugly. I will show you that surviving can be beautiful.” – Christy Ann Martine

616. “Promise me you’ll always remember — you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — Christopher Robin

617. “The Privileged Lovers”

618. “You need community support. You’re pretty defeated when you’re laid low with a mental illness. It’s a frightening place to be, and to get up and be able to stand and to move forward and to start functioning again, you need so much support. You need to feel you’re not alone.” – Margaret Trudeau

619. “There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas A. Edison

620. “I got a monster within. . . my own self!”― John Zea

621. “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” — Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral’s Kiss

622. “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.”623. “Understanding depression as a defense helps appreciate the power of this mood change. It can be seen as the last coping mechanism that will create distance from what has hurt us, is painful, or what we can no longer withstand. The symptoms of depression (like social withdrawal, apathy, fatigue, pessimism, criticism, disconnection from self and others) are ways to cope with painful circumstances and emotional overwhelm. In this shutdown state, our autonomic nervous system protects us.

624. “Depression, for me, has been a couple of different things – but the first time I felt it, I felt helpless, hopeless, and things I had never felt before. I lost myself and my will to live.” — Ginger Zee

625. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H. G. Wells

626. “If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression is, like the weather.”

627. “I didn’t have postpartum [depression] the first time, so I didn’t understand it because I was like, ‘I feel great!' The second time, I was like, ‘Oh, whoa, I see what people talk about now. I understand.' It’s a different type of overwhelming with the second. I really got under the cloud.” — People

628. “Asking for help is the first step. You are more precious to this world than you’ll ever know.” – Lili Reinhart

629. “Some people suffer in silence, pain in the hearts but smiles on their faces.” – Isha Barlas

630. “I can’t describe what I’m feeling. I’m not happy, and I know that. But I’m also not exactly sad either. I’m just caught right in between all these emotions and I feel so empty.”631. “A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.” – Joyce Meyer

632. “The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end, finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.” – Victor Hugo

633. “Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.” – Greg Fitzsimmons

634. “Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.”― Miriam Toews

635. “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”

636. “Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.”

637. “Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

638. “But if you’re broken, you don’t have to stay broken.” – SELENA GOMEZ

639. “Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” C.S. Lewis

640. “Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.” – John Green

641. When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.” — Yann Martel, Life of Pi

642. “Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.”

643. “I once read in my physics book that the universe begs to be observed, that energy travels and transfers when people pay attention. Maybe that's what love really boils down to--having someone who cares enough to pay attention so that you're encouraged to travel and transfer, to make your potential energy spark into kinetic energy.”

644. “It is okay to still be putting yourself together.” – B.M.

645. “Yeah but Maestra—”

646. “Anger is energizing. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.“ – Gloria Steinem

647. “You don’t have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.” – Gilbert Baker”

648. “It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required.”649. “Depression is a painfully slow, crashing death. Mania is the other extreme, a wild roller coaster run off its tracks, an eight ball of coke cut with speed. It's fun and it's frightening as hell. Some patients - bipolar type I - experience both extremes; other - bipolar type II - suffer depression almost exclusively. But the "mixed state," the mercurial churning of both high and low, is the most dangerous, the most deadly. Suicide too often results from the impulsive nature and physical speed of psychotic mania coupled with depression's paranoid self-loathing.”

650. “Sometimes I just think depression’s one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there’s so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.” —Ned Vizzini

651. “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

652. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar

653. “Depression is feeling like you’re lost something but having no clue when or where you last had it. Then one day, you realize what you lost is yourself.”

654. “You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic” – Unknown

655. “It’s my mission to share this with the world and to let them know that there is life on the other side of those dark times that seem so hopeless and helpless. I want to show the world that there is life — surprising, wonderful and unexpected life after diagnosis.” — Demi Lovato ​

656. “About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.” – Carl Jung

657. Need a whole new syntax for fatigue on days like this” — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

658. “It all starts with not wanting to get out of bed, that’s how you know you’re getting bad again.”

659. “There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.”

660. “The worst type of crying wasn’t the kind everyone could see–the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it.

661. “Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.”

662. “The worst type of crying wasn’t the kind everyone could see–the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.” - Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

663. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich

664. “YOU HAVE THE STRENGTH TO RECOVER.”

665. “The villainy of mankind presented itself before his imagination in all its deformity, and his mind was filled with gloomy ideas.”

666. “Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keep friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.” – Grenville Kleiser

667. “Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.”

668. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway

669. “Don’t be a reflection of your depression, your dark, or your ugly. Reflect what you want. Your light, your beauty, & your strength. Aspire for greatness – reflect who you are; not which deficits you maintain. Showcase the hidden treasures.” – Tiffany Luard

670. “Sometimes I just think depression’s one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there’s so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.” ― Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story

671. “As odd as it sounds, getting that label from a psychiatrist provided something to rally around. I was the same person before being diagnosed as I was after, but I finally had something to pinpoint, rather than just some vague feeling that life, well, sucked.”

672. “No one realizes how strong someone with depression has to be just to do daily stuff like shower, brush hair, or get out of bed.”

673. “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, It’s Kind of a Funny Story

674. “I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.” —Frida Kahlo

675. “Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.” – Kripalvanandji

676. “He was inside the nightmare.”

677. “Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?” - Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

678. “Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” – Walter Anderson

679. “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” – C.S. Lewis

680. “Only stepping out of old ruts will bring new insights.” – Andy Grove

681. “Love is the cure”

682. “Cuddling literally kills depression, relieves anxiety and strengthens the immune system.” , fighting depression and anxiety quotes

683. “Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.”

684. If we live our lives on the superficial level, life becomes depressing. But when we connect with each other from the heart, then that makes life beautiful and authentic. – Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

685. “La tristesse durera toujours.

686. “And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

687. “The strongest people are those who win battles we know nothing about.”

688. “Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness.

689. “But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He’s going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it.”― Elizabeth Gilbert

690. “She was getting more and more headaches, and spending more time in our room.”

691. “It’s scary, it’s hard, and it’s not going to be easy. But putting yourself out there and simply engaging with one person whether it’s via phone, online, or in person is crucial into getting your mind outside of that fog.”

692. “Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin – inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.” – John J. Geddes

693. “I’ve learned that everything happens for a reason, every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson… Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.” Robin Sharma

694. “Don’t stay in bed unless you can make money in bed.” – George Burns

695. “Let us choose to believe something good can happen.” – J. Martin Kohe

696. “Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” – Buddha

697. “Surround yourself with loving, caring, happy people and get rid of the negative people that drag you down.” – Heather Rose

698. “A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.” – Guy Kawasaki

699. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

700. “I don’t want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

701. “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.”- Aristotle702. “Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes. Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You’re doing just fine. You’re doing fine. I’m doing just fine.”

703. “Show me the most damaged parts of your soul, and I will show you how it still shines like gold.” – NIKITA GILL

704. “Depression is like a war. You either win or die trying”.

705. “I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.”

706. “Whenever I have a good few months, and I think I’ve gotten over the worst on my depression, it silently returns. This isn’t a battle I asked to fight. I’m tired of knowing it’s always coming back.”

707. “Life is like a game of chess.

708. “Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.” – Lemony Snicket

709. “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

710. “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

711. “I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.” ― Sylvia Plath

712. “I’m tired of pretending that everything’s fine just so I can please everyone else.” — Spencer Tracy

713. Low energy: “Doubt comes when your energy is low, when the body and mind feel exhausted. Someone who is full of enthusiasm or energy does not get doubts.”~ Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

714. “I can do all things through him that strengthens me.”

715. “The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud — the obstacles of life and its suffering. … The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. … Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one. ” ― Goldie Hawn

716. “The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.” – Dick Cavett

717. “If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.” – Dr. Rollo May

718. “No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever. The storm is just passing over.” – Lyanla Vanzant

719. “If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.” – Stephen Fry

720. “It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.” —Maya Angelou

721. “A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.”

722. “The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud — the obstacles of life and its suffering.” – Goldie Hawn

723. “Depression exist 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.”

724. “When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it’s a lot of hard work and patience.” – Burning Spear

725. “Never expect anyone to give you what you want. Work hard, show some dedication and go get it yourself.” – Anonymous

726. “You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don’t stay children forever.

727. “We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim.” – R.M. Drake

728. “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” – Carl Jung

729. “I am alive because you want me to.”― Santosh Kalwar

730. “Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”

731. “Being an actress hasn’t made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.” – Amy Adams

732. “The experience I have had is that once you start talking about [experiencing a mental health struggle], you realize that actually you’re part of quite a big club.” — Prince Harry

733. “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.” – Charles Bukowski

734. “Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.”

735. “The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can’t get away from it. Not ever.” —Nina LaCour, author

736. “There comes the point where you no longer care if there’s a light at the end of the tunnel or not. You’re just sick of the tunnel.”

737. “You give the world such a great gift by being alive. Your time to leave this world will one day come, don’t cut life short.” – Unknown

738. “A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” – Garrison Keillor

739. “It’s like being in a glass elevator in the middle of a crowded mall; you see everything and would love to join in, but the door won’t open so you can’t.” – Lisa Moore Sherman

740. “It’s my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.” ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

741. “I wanted to talk about it. Damn it. I wanted to scream. I wanted to yell. I wanted to shout about it. But all I could was whisper “I’m fine.”

742. “Sleep isn’t just sleeping anymore in depression. It’s an escape.”

743. “Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.” – Janet Fitch

744. “You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.”

745. “I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave." — Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

746. “Don’t cling to yesterday. It was beautiful, but it was yesterday.” – Osho

747. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

748. “I miss me. The old me, the happy me, the bright me, the smiling me, the laughing me, the gone me.”

749. “We’re sitting here with you,” said Pooh, “because we are your friends. And true friends don’t care if someone is feeling Sad, or Alone, or Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. True friends are there for you anyway. And so here we are.”

750. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. – Henry David Thoreau

751. “Sometimes all you can do is lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart.” – William C. Hannan

752. “They say depression is just anger turned inward. Sometimes I turn it outwards, sometimes I turn it inward, but I know it’s about self-worth.” – Vic Mensa

753. “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced” – James Baldwin

754. “For me I would just wake up and feel like I was covered in tar and it wasn't the first time I'd experienced depression so I just thought Oh, well, this feels familiar, I'm depressed, I think. And then simultaneously, my personal history of depression where it was so normalized for me to be in the quicksand, as I call it, or in the tar. It does feel like tar, like everything feels heavy. … [With my second child, I waited to get help for] four months. I know! And now this time I'm going to wait four minutes. I have said to my friends, I want you to not necessarily go by the words I'm saying and as best as I can, I'll try to be honest, but I can't personally rely on the degree of honesty if I reference the last two experiences.” — Self, June 2019

755. “My mental health problems are real and they are valid. I will not judge myself for the bad days when I can barely get out of bed. I will not make myself feel worse because someone else appears to be handling their mental illness better than I am handling mine. Recovery is not a competition.” —Matt Joseph Diaz

756. “You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”

757. “It doesn’t get better,” I said. “The pain. The wounds scab over and you don’t always feel like a knife is slashing through you. But when you least expect it, the pain flashes to remind you you’ll never be the same.” ― Katie McGarry