25+ Depression Quotes for When You’re Feeling Down

Conditions such as depression, low motivation and low morale happen to all of us.

If you have ever felt that you are in such a situation, then I am here to help you. Depression makes you feel bad mentally and physically, you cannot be motivated and enjoy life.

We have created this list of depression quotes to help you get over one of the most difficult psychological barriers that all people can face in their lives.

I hope you will feel great again thanks to these quotes. People have been suffering from depression since ancient times. Even though you sometimes feel like you've succumbed to depression, there are always better days ahead.

Depression Quotes

“We all have problems. But it’s not what happens to us, it’s the choices we make after.” – Elizabeth Smart

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

“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

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

“I tend to get pretty depressed and I have some issues with anxiety and things like that … For me, it’s more psychological. Exercise is a means of expelling those demons.”  – Ryan Reynolds

“Promise me you will always remember. You are braver than you believe and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”  – Winnie the Pooh

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”  – Richard Bach

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

“When people don’t know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.”  – Marion Cotillard

“Depression on my left. Loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show me their badges. I know these guys very well.”  – Elizabeth Gilbert

“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

“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”  ― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

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

“I need one of those long hugs where you kinda forget whatever else is happening around you for minute.”  — Marilyn Monroe

“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

"Depression doesn't take away your talents—it just makes them harder to find."  — Lady Gaga

"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 here, though."  — Jeffrey Eugenides

"You are the one thing in this world, above all other things, that you must never give up on...Asking for help is the first step. You are more precious to this world than you'll ever know."  — Lili Reinhart

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

“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

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

“Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.”  ― Dorothy M. Neddermeyer

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

“I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?”  – Billie Eilish

“Depression on my left. Loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show me their badges. I know these guys very well.” ―Elizabeth Gilbert