Depressing Quotes

Quotes about depression help in motivating people to get over their sorrow and move on. They will also give you hope that things and situation will get better soon. Here is a compilation of depressing quotes about love, and about life.

Sorrow, loss or failure of any kind leads to depression that is unavoidable for even the toughest lot. Only the one going through that phase of life can feel the actual pain and anger. In that case, coming across quotes or real-life stories can help in understanding the situation better. It can lead to catharsis or purging of emotions and anger. On the other hand, they can also help people understand the harsh realities of life, gather strength and move on.

Depressing Life Quotes

When the mind fills with sorrow and pain, we often end up sympathizing with ourselves; or rather pitying ourselves. But, these quotes will also make you realize that sorrow is temporary and everything is well in the end. Read through these wise sayings, they will surely give you hope.



Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
- Henry Ward Beecher

The secret source of humor itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
- Mark Twain

It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.
- Stanley Schmidt

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else!
- Anonymous



The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone!
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
- Horace

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
- Malcolm X

Depressing Love Quotes

Sorrow is a part of love. Loving and losing someone, or loving and being not loved back are often leads to misery in love. But, you can still get over bad times and have a happy life.



Lost love or lack of it is also one of the prominent reasons for sadness or depression. Here are some depression quotes on lost love.
- Anonymous

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop!
- Anonymous

Love can sometimes be magic.
But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
- Javan

She never found out how much I tried - all of the sadness she kept made me blind. She never found out how much I cried - the rope so tight on the night that she died...
- Seether (Love Her)



A million words would not bring you back, I know because I've tried.
Neither would a million tears, I know because I've cried.
- Anonymous

Have you ever noticed that the worst way to miss someone is when they are right beside you and you can never have them?
- Anonymous

Better to never have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
- Otomo No Yakamochi