4,044 Quotes About Depression

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.

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.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.

I wake up to nagging alarmsMy depression swarmsGetting up is a fight I want to win against myselfI look at my medication on the shelfIt’s something that will help me get through todayIn the end, I will be the one who will stay

A thing can be imperfect according to some standard, but not in itself.

I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.

All the knives seem to lacerate your brainI've had my shareI'll help you with the pain- Rock and Roll Suicide

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.

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?