Depression Quotes (5285 quotes)

Depression lies. It lies relentlessly and seductively and convincingly. The lies, like the fire of Wallace’s parable, separate you from hope, from faith, from your loved ones. Imagine the worst day of your life. Maybe someone you loved died, or betrayed you. Maybe you lost a job you loved or were publicly humiliated or failed some essential obligat

The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a

What strikes you when you come out of a deep depression or get close to a depressed person is the utter self-absorption of misery.

What strikes you when you come out of a deep depression or get close to a depressed person is the utter self-absorption of misery.

What strikes you when you come out of a deep depression or get close to a depressed person is the utter self-absorption of misery.

People without depression won’t understand that, but the fatigue of mental illness makes your very body a prison.

“Depression lies,” said Jenny Lawson on a season two episode. “Because every single time, it says, ‘You’ll never come out of this again. You are absolutely worthless, your family is better off without you.’ And then I remind myself depression lies. Those things are lies.”