Depressing Quotes

• A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

  Jonathan Davis

  Depression, Thinking, People

  105 Copy quote

• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Betrayal

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.251, Univ of California Press

  110 Copy quote

  Show source

• People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Sad, Strong

  116 Copy quote

• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

  Orson Welles

  Love, Life, Lonely

  132 Copy quote

• To perceive is to suffer.

  Aristotle

  Life, Depression, Education

  Aristotle (2004). “The Works of Aristotle: Aristotle on the parts & progressive motion of animals, the problems, on indivisible lines to which is added Thomas Taylor's The elements of the true arithmetic of infinites”

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• Depression is rage spread thin.

  George Santayana

  Depression, Pain, Suffering

  31 Copy quote

• The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 24, 2014

  77 Copy quote

  Show source

• The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Wall, Humor

  38 Copy quote

• I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.

  Ned Vizzini

  Life, Sad, Depression

  94 Copy quote

• Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

  Woody Allen

  Death, Funny Life, Loneliness

  21 Copy quote

• Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Peace, War, Views

  "The unknown Afghan body count" by James Denselow, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2010.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Now, I'm getting a little older, got more responsibility, I don't need to be depressed.

  Noah Hathaway

  Responsibility, Needs, Littles

  12 Copy quote

• The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

  Gustav Mahler

  Stars, Way In Life, World

  Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler, Donald Mitchell, Knud Martner (1973). “Gustav Mahler: memories and letters”, John Murray Publishers

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  88 Copy quote

• Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Hate, Dark, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

  Lynda Barry

  Depression, Trying, Looks

  16 Copy quote

• In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sad, Morning, Real

  "Handle with Care" (1936)

  92 Copy quote

  Show source

• Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

  Dorothy Parker

  Suicide, Gun, Smell

  "Resume" l. 5 (1926)

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

  Luis Bunuel

  Time, Alcohol, May

  52 Copy quote

• What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Art, Serenity

  Notes d'un peintre (Notes of a Painter, 1908) in Dominique Fourcade crits et propos sur l'art (1972) p. 30

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Cute, Happiness

  53 Copy quote

• When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

  Elayne Boosler

  Depression, Country, Strong Women

  16 Copy quote

• There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat.

  Neal Boortz

  Government, Office, Waking

  6 Copy quote

• Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.

  Adriana Lima

  Money, Thinking, Cities

  12 Copy quote

• Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.

  Gerald Vann

  Christianity, Aggressive, Illogical

  9 Copy quote