Depression Quotes

Depression is a silent killer to those who suffer from it. As it damages ones personality and appearance, it also hurts ones thoughts, social behavior and health. Read these selected quotes from some famous authors and see what they think about depression.

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
Jeanette Winterson

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I’m so depressed, or life is terrible.
Tony Curtis

My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love.
Soren kierkegaard

Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.
Ray Brown

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
Adam Ant

Depression is rage spread thin.
George Santayana

Depression, as far as I’m concerned, is just a waste of time.
Helen Reddy

Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.
Michael Schenker

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one’s taking.
Doug Coupland

Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Rollo May

I didn’t feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.
Walter Annenberg

I, I don’t think anybody’s continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.
Rube Goldberg

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.
Patty Duke

Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.
Tom Bosley

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Dodie Smith

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
Cesare Pavese

We all know pain doesn’t exist without some coexisting depression.
Jerry Hall

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.
William Styron

For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night’s rest.
Unknown

Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts.
Penelope Sweet

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking. ~
Elayne Boosler

I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories.
Conor Oberst

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
Paul Fussell

Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it’s not.
Tom Bosley

Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease. ~
Judith Peacock