Top 100 Depression Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I think I’m afraid of being happy because whenever I get too happy something bad always happens.”

— Charles M. Schulz

2. “It’s healthy to admit you’re not ok. ‘It’s ok not to be ok’ it’s brave. But don’t let it win. Be sad. Have your moment, your day or week. Then do something about it and be happy. For yourself.”

— Jessie J.

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Healing Quotes, Health Quotes

3. “I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”

— Vincent van Gogh

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Passion Quotes, Challenges Quotes, Artist Quotes

4. “Realize that you are not alone, that we are in this together and most importantly that there is hope.”

— Deepika Padukone

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Care Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Being Strong Quotes

5. “Some kids are so depressed at home and with how people treat them in school that they cut themselves. This happens all over the world – kids who don’t want to kill themselves, but nobody understands how much they hurt, so they cut themselves with razor blades.”

— Chester Bennington

Also featured in: Mental Health Quotes, Sorrow Quotes, Hurt Quotes, Darkness Quotes

6. “Stay strong. Depression lies.”

— Wil Wheaton

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes, Affirmation Quotes

7. “It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.”

— William Styron

Also featured in: Sad Quotes About Life, Sorrow Quotes

8. “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Meaningful Quotes

9. “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

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Quotes About Humanity, Sorrow Quotes

10. “I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Also featured in: Giving Up Quotes, Depressing Quotes, Sad Quotes, Loss Quotes

11. “We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life

12. “And when you’re feeling empty, keep me in your memory. Leave out all the rest, leave out all the rest.”

— Linkin Park

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Sadness Quotes, Quotes About Songs

13. “If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile.”

— Kurt Cobain

Also featured in: Soul Quotes

14. “The sadness will last forever.”

— Vincent van Gogh

Also featured in: Artist Quotes, Pain Quotes, Sadness Quotes

15. “The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’”

— Billy Graham

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Suffering Quotes

16. “It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Also featured in: Intelligent Quotes, Truth Quotes, Sorrow Quotes, Pain Quotes

17. “Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears.”

— Demi Lovato

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Encouraging Quotes, Pain Quotes

18. “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.”

— Albert Camus

Also featured in: Philosophical Quotes, Depressing Quotes, Sad Quotes, Existentialism Quotes

19. “Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

20. “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”

— Sylvia Plath

Also featured in: Identity Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Moving Quotes, Individuality Quotes

21. “It’s easier to run Replacing this pain with something numb It’s so much easier to go Than face all this pain here all alone.”

— Linkin Park

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Pain Quotes, Lonely Quotes

22. “And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Sad Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life, Sadness Quotes

23. “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”

— J.K. Rowling

Also featured in: Sad Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life, Quotes About Feelings, Suffering Quotes

24. “Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.”

— Franz Kafka

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Sad Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life

25. “Always remember you matter, you’re important and you are loved, and you bring to this world things no one else can.”

— Charlie Mackesy

Also featured in: Self-Worth Quotes, Care Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Love Life Quotes

26. “Even those who never frown eventually break down.”

— Linkin Park

Also featured in: Mental Health Quotes, Sad Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life, Sadness Quotes

27. “Solitude was my only consolation – deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”

— Mary Shelley

Also featured in: Sad Quotes, Loneliness Quotes, Sadness Quotes

28. “Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Wellness Wednesday Quotes

29. “Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.”

— Heinrich Heine

Also featured in: Sad Quotes

30. “I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Also featured in: Recovery Quotes, Being Strong Quotes, Healing Quotes, Loneliness Quotes

31. “I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”

— Franz Kafka

Also featured in: Mental Health Quotes, Sad Quotes, Desire Quotes

32. “Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Also featured in: Quotes About War, Fight Club Quotes

33. “Memories consume Like opening the wound I’m picking me apart again You all assume I’m safe here in my room Unless I try to start again.”

— Linkin Park

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Loneliness Quotes, Sadness Quotes

34. “Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.”

— Matt Lucas

35. “Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Moving Quotes, Past Quotes

36. “A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.”

— John Steinbeck

Also featured in: Mental Health Quotes, Sad Quotes, Sorrow Quotes, Loneliness Quotes

37. “No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you’ll find the positive side of things.”

— Demi Lovato

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Being Strong Quotes, Survival Quotes

38. “I am nothing. I’ll never be anything. I couldn’t want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Also featured in: Sad Quotes, Existentialism Quotes, Demotivational Quotes, Emo Quotes

39. “I’m not okay.”

— Gerard Way

Also featured in: Sorrow Quotes, Loneliness Quotes, Honesty Quotes, Doubt Quotes

40. “I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.”

— Haruki Murakami

Also featured in: Loss Quotes, Sorrow Quotes, Loneliness Quotes

41. “No one knows my Struggle, they only see the Trouble. Not knowing it’s hard to carry on when, No one loves you.”

— Tupac Shakur

Also featured in: Struggle Quotes, Love You Quotes, Pain Quotes

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

— Franz Kafka

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Sad Quotes, Loneliness Quotes

43. “Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Loss Quotes, Love Is Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes

44. “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

— George Lucas

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Fear Quotes, Darkness Quotes

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

— Sylvia Plath

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Romantic Quotes, Longing Quotes, Lonely Quotes

46. “I wake up in the morning and ask myself; is life worth living? Should I blast myself?”

— Tupac Shakur

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Hurt Quotes

47. “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

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Sorrow Quotes, Lonely Quotes, Feeling Alone Quotes

48. “Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Purpose Quotes, Sorrow Quotes

49. “People think they know me, but they don’t. Not really. Actually, I am one of the loneliest people on this earth. I cry sometimes, because it hurts. It does. To be honest, I guess you could say that it hurts to be me.”

— Michael Jackson

Also featured in: Sorrow Quotes, Hurt Quotes, Lonely Quotes

50. “I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”

— Henry Rollins

Also featured in: Loneliness Quotes