70+ Best Depression And Sad Quotes For Your Toughest Days

1. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”-Dr. Seuss

2. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”-Friedrich Nietzsche

3. “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.”-Stephen Chbosky

4. “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.”-Mahatma Gandhi

5. “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

6. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”-Jonathan Safran Foer

7. “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

8.  “Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”-Haruki Murakami

9. “What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”-John Green

10. “You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes”.”-Lauren Oliver

11.  “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”-Nicholas Sparks

12. “They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don’t think it’s possible for you to miss me as much as I’m missing you right now”-Edna St. Vincent Millay

13. “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”-Clive Barker

14. “Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”-Markus Zusak

15. “He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”-Markus Zusak

16. “Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”-Pablo Neruda

17. “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”-Jos N. Harris

18. “I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”-C.S. Lewis

19. “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”-Nikolai Gogol

20. “Tears are words that need to be written.”-Paulo Coelho

21. “Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you.”-Lauren Conrad

22. “There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”-Nicole Krauss

23. “Why do beautiful songs make you sad?’ ‘Because they aren’t true.’ ‘Never?’ ‘Nothing is beautiful and true.”-Jonathan Safran Foer

24.“I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.”-Stephen Chbosky

25. “She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”-Jonathan Safran Foer

26. “I can’t eat and I can’t sleep. I’m not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”-Ned Vizzini

27. “The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.”-C. JoyBell C.

28. “People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands – literally thousands – of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”-Nick Hornby

29. “I’m lonely. And I’m lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.”-Augusten Burroughs

30. “I’ll fight it. I’ll fight it for you. Don’t you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I’m okay. I’ll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.”-John Green

31. “When people don’t know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.” – Marion Cotillard

32. “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

33. “You’re like a grey sky. You’re beautiful, even though you don’t want to be.” ― Jasmine Warga

34. “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

35. “Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.” ― Dodie Smith

36. “I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colors and shades I knew existed.” ― Katie McGarry

37. “Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.” – Swami Sivananda

38. “Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.” – Pythagoras

39. “You don’t have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.” – Gilbert Baker

40. “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” ― John Keats

41. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” ― Amit Ray

42. “Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.” ― Philip K. Dick

43. “Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.” ― Dorothy M. Neddermeyer

44. “The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.” ― Victor Hugo

45. “All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.” ― Tom Robbins

46. “I’m not grateful for depression, but it honestly made me work harder and gave me the drive that I have to succeed and to make it work.” – Lili Reinhart

47. “Mental illness lives all around us every day. I’ve seen it in other family members, I’ve seen it in friends, and I’ve dealt with it myself with my own postpartum depression.” – Rachel Hollis

48. “Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours.” ― Shannon L. Alder

49. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

50. “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 LaCour, Hold Still

51. “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” – Clive Barker

52. “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” —Richard Bach

53. “If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking ” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel

54. “I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?” ― Laurie Halse Anderson

55. “So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key.” – The Eagles

56. “Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.” – Alan Cohen

57. “It’s brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.” ― Nick Hornby

58. “That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel

59. “I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.” ― John Keats

60. “Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins – is self-pity.”― Stephen Fry

61. “Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.” ― Jasmine Warga

62. “I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.” ― Andrew Solomon

63. “If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill, let yourself fall ill.” ― Jalaluddin Rumi

64. “I can’t eat and I can’t sleep. I’m not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?” ― Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story

65. “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

66. “If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.” ― Clifford Odets

67. “In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel

68. “I don’t want to do anything. I don’t even want to start this day because then I’ll just be expected to finish it.” ― Rainbow Rowell

69. “So you try to think of someone else you’re mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.” ― Ellen Hopkins

70. “I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”― Henry Rollins

71. “It is very hard to explain to people who have never known serious depression or anxiety the sheer continuous intensity of it. There is no off switch.” – Matt Haig

72. “Surround yourself with loving, caring, happy people and get rid of the negative people that drag you down.” – Heather Rose

73. “Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.” – Dick Cavett

74. “Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent.” – Elizabeth Wintzel