1. “Depression is a battle between a body that fights with all its might to survive and a mind that wants to die.”
2. “People ask me what depression is like. I tell them it’s a lot like walking down a dark hallway, never really knowing when the light turn goes on.”
3. “Remember this: You weren’t put here to be depressed. To feel guilty, ashamed, unworthy or condemned. You were put here to be victorious.”
4. “I honestly don’t know what I want in life. I don’t even know what I want right now. All I know is that it hurts so much inside, and it’s eating me alive. One day, there won’t be anything left of me.”
5. “I honestly don’t like getting close to people. In my mind, they’re just going to walk out of my life anyway no matter how close we were.”
6. “Depression is an overwhelming feeling of numbness, and the endless desire for something – anything – to take you from one day to the next.”
7. “I smile to make everyone’s day, but the truth is that I’m crying on the inside.”
8. “I hate feeling like I’m here, but I’m really not; like someone cares, but they really don’t; like I belong anywhere but here.”
9. “Sometimes, you just need that one person to tell you that you aren’t as bad as you think you are.”
10. “Depression makes you feel like you want to just disappear from the world, but in reality, all you truly want is to be found.”
11. “I really wish that I could go back to a time when I would smile, and it didn’t take every fiber of my being to do it.”
12. “In my mind, depression is comparing your current reality to a fantasy about how you think your life should really be.”
13. “Sometimes, you just don’t know the true weight of what you’re carrying until the day you feel its release.”
14. “I just don’t want to hurt anymore. Is that so much to ask?”
15. “The very worst kind of sadness is the kind that doesn’t have an explanation.”
16. “When words can’t express the pain you’re feeling, you cry. That’s the heart’s way of expressing the pain.”
17. “You never want people to see you cry because you want to be strong. But you hate how nobody seems to notice that you’re completely broken and torn apart inside.”
18. “It’s hard to answer the question “what’s wrong?” when nothing is right.”
19. “Depression is that feeling when you’re not really sad – you just feel empty inside.”
20. “That’s the scary thing about depression: humans can survive just about anything as long as we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. But depression is sneaky and it continues to build up each day. Ultimately, it becomes impossible to see the light. The fog is like being trapped in a cage without a key.”
31. “Depression is like drowning and you can see everyone around you breathing.”
32. “I’m really tired of feeling hopeless and worthless. But above everything else, I’m just tired of being so tired.”
33. “My fingers text “I’m good”. My lips say “I’m okay”. My heart says “I’m shattered to pieces”.”
34. “Sometimes it’s better to be alone. That way, no one can hurt me.”
35. “I already know what it feels like to give up. Now, I want to see what it feels like not to.”
36. “Don’t ever allow your loneliness and pain to drive you into the arms of someone you know you shouldn’t be with.”
37. “I really want to be happy, but there’s something inside me that screams “you don’t deserve it!””
38. “This life was given to you because you’re strong enough to live it.”
39. “Flowers always grow back – even if someone stomps on them. So will I.”
40. “She’s just like the moon – part of her has always hidden away.”
41. “Sometimes, the sadness makes it hard to breathe. It gets hard to talk about your demons when they’re sitting on your lungs.”
42. “Depression, panic attacks and anxiety are not signs of being weak. They are signs that a person has been too strong for too long.”
43. “I am my own worst enemy. I’m the one who beats me up. I am the one who creates the monsters. I am the one who strips away my own confidence.”
44. “The bravest, strongest thing I ever did was continue on with my life even though I wanted to die.”
45. “I am stronger because I had to be. I am smarter because I’ve made mistakes. I am happier because I’ve been sad. I am wiser now because I’ve learned.”
46. “Depression is almost like a reverse nightmare. Instead of waking up from a nightmare and feeling relieved, I woke up into a nightmare.”
47. “I keep things inside because that’s the safest place to hide.”
48. “They never told me that monsters don’t actually sleep under your bed; they live in your mind.”
49. “How did I go from being a happy, care-free, laughing six-year-old to this?”
50. “Depression has a way of sneaking up on me when I think I’m flying high. It clips my wing, but not both because I will not let it take over every single piece of me.”
51. “I’m only now just learning how to smile. It’s really not as easy as it sounds.”
52. “I’m heartbroken and sad. I’m hurt and depressed. All I want to do is cry, but I don’t want to let this ruin my life.”
53. “Pain is emotional. Depression and fear are always in company with chronic hurting.”
61. “I think it’s time to stop keeping track of all my mistakes, and just forgive myself.”
62. “I don’t mind being alone. It’s the loneliness that I hate.”
63. “I hate it when I get flashbacks of things I don’t want to remember.”
64. “Sometimes, this overwhelming feeling of sadness just washes over me out of nowhere. I get upset and I feel discouraged. I feel sad, hurt and hopeless. I feel numb to the world.”
65. “People always comment on how sad and tired I look. Of course, I look sad and tired. I am sad and tired.”
66. “Why does it always seem like it’s raining down on me?”
67. “I think I’m just afraid to be happy. Every time I get too happy, something bad happens.”
68. “This is my heart. Do you know where I can get it fixed?”
69. “Please stop asking if I’m okay. I’m really tired of lying.”
70. “Do you ever feel like the people of the world just forget you exist and still have feelings?”
71. “Someday, this pain will all make sense to you.”
72. “I’m pretty sure that no one else could ever criticize me as viciously as I criticize myself.”
73. “I feel like everyone else is busy living their lives while I’m stuck here inside of this hole I can’t climb out of.”
74. “My past is constantly haunting me, and I just can’t seem to figure out how to let it go.”
75. “I feel completely lost in my own mind. I bottle up my emotions until I burst. It’s a vicious cycle.”
76. “She could never really tell who would leave or stay, so she just pushed everyone away. It was much easier that way.”
77. “Although things may seem like they’re falling apart, they may actually be just falling into place.”
78. “Everyone is searching for that one person whose demons play nice with theirs.”
79. “The scars may have healed, but that doesn’t mean that the pain has.”
80. “To heal a wound, you have to stop touching it.”
81. “How do you run away from – escape – your own mind?”
82. “I can’t sleep at night. I can’t wake up in the morning either.”
83. “My life is a constant battle between wanting to be left alone, but not wanting to feel lonely.”
84. “When you’re depressed, sleep isn’t just sleeping; it’s an escape.”
85. “Sometimes, I’m really afraid to open up to my friends about my anxiety and sadness because they’ll think I’m just looking for attention.”
86. “Don’t think for a second that my bad days are a sign of weakness. Those are the days that I’m actually fighting the hardest.”
87. “I’ve reached a point where everything is incredibly overwhelming. Even the smallest of tasks make me feel like breaking down and crying my eyes out. It’s all just too much to bear right now.”
88. “I feel like, secretly, everyone around me hates me.”
89. “I always feel like everyone is prettier, funnier, skinnier, better than me.”
90. “Oh, there’s a hell. Trust me – I’ve been there.”
91. “You may smile, but you really want to cry. You may talk, but you really want to be silent. You pretend that you’re happy, but you really aren’t.”
92. “When you’re depressed, you just keep going and going until you finally crash and break down about anything and everything.”
93. “Depression is a kind of tired that no amount of sleep in the world can fix.”
94. “I’m really not sure if I’m depressed. I mean, I’m not really sad. But late at night when I’m alone, I just forget how to feel.”
95. “There are some days when I feel like I’m on top of the world. And then the next day, it’s falling down all around me.”
96. “I keep all the hurt and pain inside because I would rather have it destroy me than everyone else around me.”
97. “I think people really have a hard time understanding how stressful it can be to try and explain all the things going on in your head when you can’t even understand it yourself.”
98. “There are times when I feel like I’m getting better. I’ll eat normally. I’ll laugh more and talk more. I’ll sleep better. But then it’s like something happens – like a switch turns off in my mind. And all of sudden, I’m left with just the darkness of my mind.”
99. “You can’t change the things that are going on around you until you change the things that are going on within you.”
100. “I am just not me anymore. And that scares me.”
101. “I just never get my hopes up. That way, I can never be let down.”
102. “I’ve had people tell me that my depression is all in my head. But why would I ever want to feel this way?”
103. “When you feel like you’ve reached the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and keep holding on.”
104. “Sometimes, it’s the one person who tries to make everyone else happy that is the loneliest of all.”
105. “The strongest people in the world are not the ones who win battles in front of us, but the ones who win the battles we know nothing about.”
106. “You know that moment when you can physically feel the pain in your chest when something breaks your heart?”
107. “I think most people don’t realize that there are a lot of people out there who expend a tremendous amount of energy just trying to be normal.”
108. “I tend to be silent when I’m really screaming inside.”
109. “I knew who I was this morning, but since then, I’ve changed a few times.”
110. “Every person has their own secret sorrows that they hide from the world. Oftentimes, we call people cold when they’re just sad.”
111. “When I feel anxious, it’s because I’m living in the future. When I feel depressed, it’s because I’m still living in the past.”
112. “I’ve finally realized that I just have to accept things the way they are. Life gets much easier when you do this.”
113. “There are times when I just want to run away and see if anyone misses me.”
114. “I always compare myself to every person I see, and I lose every single time.”
115. “I know first-hand what it’s like to be completely terrified of your own mind.”
116. “Each day, you wake up just to fight the same demons that left you feeling utterly exhausted the day before.”
117. “Please – do not mock or poke fun at a pain that you’ve never personally endured.”
~via Awesoroo by David Gorkonel
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