4,044 Quotes About Depression

We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.

Iron bars cut the moon’s naked skin. The cracked bone, brittle and aging, couldn’t find any light, and so the trees were silent. On the opposite end of the horizon, a silent neighbor flickered gently. A whisper. It was unclouded and bright, like a mind in its infancy, exuding a peace that Vincent envied.

When you are depressed you are not at peace. You are not at peace because you are not using your creative potential. When you are not using your potential you are not fulfilling your function on earth. So it stands to reason that when you are depressed it is because you are not yet doing what it is you came here to do.

The darkness might hide things really well, but it doesn’t have the power to make them disappear. And when it comes to our dreams, we might want to remember that.

Embrace the void and have the courage to exist.

The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire.

There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost.

When your person of comfort can't fill or lessen the hole in your heart, you are lost. Bitterly lost. And no one, no matter how much you want it, will be able to fill the emptiness within you.

I used to wish I’d have nightmares—what a pleasure it would have been to wake up. If all your dreams are terrifying, reality actually becomes something to look forward to.