Top 100 Depression Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”

— Steve Maraboli

52. “I prefer to cry alone. Pride? No. I just want to avoid the judgement of people who don’t know the reason for my tears.”

— Demi Lovato

53. “I’m a creep. I’m a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don’t belong here.”

— Thom Yorke

54. “Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself – if they could live in my memories – would anyone, anyone, love me?”

— John Green

55. “I’ve tried so hard and got so far but in the end, it doesn’t even matter.”

— Chester Bennington

56. “Nobody loves me. Sometimes I wish God could come down and hug me.”

— Ja Rule

57. “When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

58. “I don’t want to die. But I want to be dead.”

— Jean Ingelow

59. “Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.”

— Aaron T. Beck

60. “Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes. That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell. Everything passes.”

— Osamu Dazai

61. “I hate my life. I’m at the point where I want to hear about other people’s lives. It’s like switching from fiction to biography.”

— Don DeLillo

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

63. “The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”

— Arthur Golden

64. “In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.”

— Vincent van Gogh

65. “A book is a suicide postponed.”

— Emil Cioran

66. “Don’t want to reach for me, do you? I mean nothing to you, the little things give you away.”

— Linkin Park

67. “No one can hate me more than I hate myself.”

— Sarah Kane

68. “I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.”

— Victor Hugo

69. “Suicide is no solution. Keep fighting.”

— Hayley Williams

70. “The time I kill is killing me.”

— Mason Cooley

71. “I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.”

— Leonard Cohen

72. “It is hard to be happy without a life worth living. This is a fundamental tenet of DBT. Of course, all lives are worth living in reality. No life is not worth living. But what is important is that you experience your life as worth living – one that is satisfying, and one that brings happiness.”

— Marsha M. Linehan

73. “Bipolar depression really got my life off track, but today I’m proud to say I am living proof that someone can live, love, and be well with bipolar disorder when they get the education, support and treatment they need.”

— Demi Lovato

74. “You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.”

— Dan Millman

75. “Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.”

— Mason Cooley

76. “Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.”

— Khalil Gibran

77. “I’m a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can’t pull out of it. But I don’t consider myself negative-negative. I’m positive-negative.”

— Tim Burton

78. “In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”

— Akira Kurosawa

79. “I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”

— Franz Kafka

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

— Nick Hornby

81. “Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.”

— Steven Wright

82. “If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”

— Fred Rogers

83. “Sanity is a cozy lie.”

— Susan Sontag

84. “Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”

— William Faulkner

85. “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

— Marcus Aurelius

86. “Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.”

— Franz Kafka

87. “Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.”

— Joyce Meyer

88. “People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”

— Nhat Hanh

89. “Depression is rage spread thin.”

— George Santayana

90. “Of course I’m crazy, but that doesn’t mean I’m wrong.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

91. “Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.”

— Meister Eckhart

92. “Storms make trees take deeper roots.”

— Dolly Parton

93. “Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”

— Graham Greene

94. “A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.”

— Joyce Meyer

95. “Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”

— C.G. Jung

96. “No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

97. “At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

98. “The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.”

— Cesare Pavese

99. “Habits of pessimism lead to depression, wither achievement, and undermine physical health. The good news is that pessimism can be unlearned, and that with its removal depression, underachievement, and poor health can be alleviated.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

100. “May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself.”

— Max Ehrmann