Depression Quotes about Life

Depression quotes about life offer insight about what it is like dealing with depression as well as motivation and a sense that "he gets it." These quotations about depression and depression sayings discuss numerous facets of the condition such as sorrow, disappointment, isolation and other associated problems. For helping others, feel free to share them on your website, blog or social page.

“What depression actually is? It's like drowning, except that everyone around you respire.”

I just love that quote. It explains well how utterly lonely and frightening it is to be trapped inside the inescapable bog that contains severe depression. You feel absolutely powerless, leaden, slow, unable to move. You are trapped — an unwelcome witness to those who lead what appears to be happy lives. Anger at everyone's misunderstanding of your disease is flooding your lungs, heart and mind.

The question: Do you remain fetal or fight the way to the surface?

“It's hard to answer the question "What's wrong?" when nothing's right.”

“You don't control your emotions and thoughts when you're depressed, they control you. I wish people understood that.”

That quotation is absolutely shockingly real. Depression can make a person feel his or her mind has taken control of the show, with self-attacking thoughts tumbling after another with volcanic force, according to the World Health Organization: I'm so dumb; everybody is looking at me and laughing; nothing good ever happens to me ...

"Depression feels like you've lost something but don't have any clue when or where you've had it the last time. Then one day you realize that it's yourself that is lost.”

I no longer recognize myself as a common refrain of someone who has clinical depression.

People will call your name and they will remember someone they believe they know. Yet from the mirror staring back at you is a stranger, with a haunting, helpless face. You recall happy experiences like scenes once seen from a movie, not like something witnessed directly. I remember I used to laugh and joke but what I want to do now is relax, I've been told by more than one patient in the depressive throes.

“People think depression is sadness. People think depression is crying. People think depression is dressing in black.  But people are wrong. Depression is the constant feeling of being numb. Being numb to emotions, being numb to life. You wake up in the morning just to go to bed again.” - Sherry Amatenstein

We often confuse sadness with depression but these two are not similar. Sadness is the common human behavior in which maybe we switch off our phones or cry but in depression, people feel emotional numbness. They feel darkness around them and become unable to express their feelings or emotions. Their thought process gets changed and they go through uncontrollable thoughts which eventually leads them to alarming situations of clinical depression.

“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—making it impossible to ever see the end. That fog is like a cage without a key.” - Elizabeth Wurtzel

As a human being what we really need is a little light in the dark situation… a hope to get better. If we think that there is no hope of recovery than the chances of it may diminish. All we need to do is, provide ourselves with a little motivation which will act as a matchstick in a full dark room. As soon as we can do it, we can get out of this terrible feeling step after step.

Read some more depression quotes about life below:

“They all say," How are you doing? "But what they really mean is" You're not over it yet? "My lips are saying," Well, thank you, "but my eyes are telling a different story, my heart is singing a different tune and my soul is weeping.”

“It is not the feeling of wholeness that I need but the feeling that I am not hollow.”

“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.” - David Foster Wallace

“The only thing that's more exhausting than depression is to say you aren't.”

“I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.” - Andrew Solomon

“I felt so disconnected from the world that I felt like nobody no longer notices me or cares for me”

“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

These days we don’t feel comfortable showing how we actually feel! We may be dying each day every second of our life pretending that nothing has happened and we are happy. It’s all because we feel that nobody would understand our emotions and will make fun of us. We don’t ask for help in this situation even from the people closest to us. But, it’s okay to take help, it’s okay to laugh with them on your own depression because, once you start bullying your own depression it will stay away from you.

Wake up and meet yourself with a smile on your face in the mirror. Praise yourself, motivate yourself, set a target to achieve and if you fail, don’t worry keep up the good work. Be the reason for someone else’ motivation. Read good articles, watch comedy and inspirational stories, get out of your room and stay close to nature… Above all amend your relationship with God.

Praise to Him in all situations, ask for help from Him, tell Him what you are going through in life and what you want to achieve. Trust me He is the best listener and the best helper. Hold to Him tightly. It may be the toughest time of your life but it will not remain forever. Things will become better. Don’t give up… Please, don’t give up.

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