16 Short Depression Quotes From Famous Authors

 20 Short Depression Quotes From Famous Authors 

1. "When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone." - Fiona Apple

2. "Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair." - Andrew Solomon

3. "In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Albert Camus

4. "There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer." - Barbara King solver

5. "It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship." - C.S. Lewis

6. "That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end." - Elizabeth Wurlitzer

7. "The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can't get away from it. Not ever." - Nina La Cour

8. "I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely, the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week." - Sylvia Plath

9. "That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful." - Elizabeth Wurtzel

10. "I've always had this thing where I'm totally fascinated by the human condition and yet totally repelled by it. I think that's why I'm so interested in depression. I think everyone has that feeling, to some extent. If they don't, they're not even looking." - Kirsten Dunst

11. "I'm not okay, but I will be." - Unknown

12. "It's not always rainbows and butterflies, it's compromise that moves us along." - Maroon 5

13. "Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though." - Jeffrey Eugenides

14. "Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts, but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different." - J.K. Rowling

15. "I'm not telling you it's going to be easy. I'm telling you it's going to be worth it." - Art Williams

16. "Depression is like a heaviness that you can't ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like