24 Quotes About Despondency

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

A person’s outlook on life colors their interpretation of specific events. Human beings’ behavioral and thinking patterns enable people to thrive or cause them to live in despondency and despair.

When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in.

Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.

Oh darkness, I feel like letting go.

It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity.

The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.

We seek to escape the dark cave of a despondent mind by either dulling oneself mentally or through imaginative acts. One form of escapism is daydreaming.

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.