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13 Quotes About Depression You Must Read

13 Quotes About Depression You Must Read

Depression is a terrible feeling and although it is common, it can become a serious medical illness that will negatively affect how you feel and act. The way you think and how you behave also get affected due to depression. Depression also causes feelings of severe sadness and loss of interest in activities you previously enjoyed doing.

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Here are 13 quotes about depression you should read:

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  1. 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
  2. There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. ― Laurell K. Hamilton
  3. 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 Wurtzel
  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 Kingsolver
  5. Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken. ― C.S. Lewis
  6. 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
  7. You say you’re ‘depressed’ – all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective – it just means you’re human. ― David Mitchell
  8. If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. ― Amit Ray
  9. Because that’s the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don’t want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lungs. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It’s mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time. ― Stephanie Perkins
  10. Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living. ― Jo Nesbo
  11. 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
  12. Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show me their badges. I know these guys very well. ― Elizabeth Gilbert
  13. Depression is melancholy minus its charms. ― Susan Sontag

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