Top 100 Depressing Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I don’t know how to live well. I only know how to suffer.”

— Bob Marley

52. “It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.”

— Ashleigh Brilliant

53. “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”

— George R.R. Martin

54. “Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

— Thomas Hobbes

55. “Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.”

— Ellen Goodman

56. “In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.”

— Bertolt Brecht

57. “Acceptance is the only way out of hell.”

— Marsha M. Linehan

58. “Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.”

— Orson Welles

59. “I didn’t cause it. I can’t control it. I can’t cure it.”

— David Sheff

60. “The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart – hearts are made to be broken – but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”

— Oscar Wilde

61. “You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

62. “In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?”

— Pablo Neruda

63. “The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.”

— Charles Bukowski

64. “Why am I dying to live if I’m just living to die.”

— Tupac Shakur

65. “The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.”

— George R.R. Martin

66. “Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.”

— Jim Morrison

67. “There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.”

— Franz Kafka

68. “The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now.”

— Haruki Murakami

69. “There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow again.”

— Attila the Hun

70. “I can't set my hopes too high, because every hello ends with a goodbye.”

— Demi Lovato

71. “On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

72. “Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

73. “My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”

— L.M. Montgomery

74. “Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.”

— Nick Hornby

75. “A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.”

— Franz Kafka

76. “What the hell am I doing with my life?”

— Ben Stiller

77. “Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight.”

— Charles Bukowski

78. “Life is unfair. And it’s not fair that life is unfair.”

— Edward Abbey

79. “To die, to sleep – To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...”

— William Shakespeare

80. “Human life must be some form of mistake.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

81. “Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”

— James Anthony Froude

82. “How we need another soul to cling to.”

— Sylvia Plath

83. “In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.”

— Solomon

84. “We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”

— Franz Kafka

85. “The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.”

— Ravi Zacharias

86. “You’ve got to find a way to survive because they win when your soul dies.”

— Tupac Shakur

87. “People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

88. “Without literature, life is hell.”

— Charles Bukowski

89. “When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.”

— Mark Twain

90. “Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.”

— Jean Baudrillard

91. “What didn’t kill me didn’t make me stronger at all.”

— Ed Sheeran

92. “The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”

— Edgar Allan Poe

93. “It’s brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.”

— Nick Hornby

94. “Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.”

— Sophocles

95. “Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”

— Haruki Murakami

96. “Alone in a world, With millions of souls Walking in circles Trapped in their dreams unhealthy, unclean walking in circles, now do not disturb scream in silence everyone’s sleeping.”

— Chester Bennington

97. “Death is not the problem; waiting around for it is.”

— Charles Bukowski

98. “What the hell am I doing here?”

— Thom Yorke

99. “A father’s death is the most important event, the most heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man’s life.”

— Sigmund Freud

100. “In the face of pain there are no heroes.”

— George Orwell