1. 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

2. I struggled with anxiety and depression and questioned whether or not I wanted to be alive anymore. It was when I hit this low that I decided to reach out and ask for the help of a licensed therapist. This decision ultimately helped save my life. You don’t have to wait for things.

- Michael Phelps

3. Depression is a medical condition. We need to create a world where people are as comfortable seeking care for their minds as they are for their bodies.

- Adam Grant

4. Depression and anxiety can’t fit in your head if you’re cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.

- Austin Butler

5. Depression isn’t about, ‘Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other’, it’s like having the worst flu all day that you just can’t kick.

- Robbie Williams

6. 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

7. Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I’ve made that commitment for my life’s sake and for the sake of those who love me.

- Susan Poli Schultz

8. Depression is frustrating. It’s knowing there’s so much to be grateful for and happy about and to enjoy, but you just can’t get there.

- Allie Griffin

9. That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.

- Ernest Hemingway

10. Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

- Siri Hustvedt

11. Depression isn’t a war you win. It’s a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It’s one bloody fray after another.

- Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

12. There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

- Fred Rogers

13. Things like depression and obesity are global challenges.

- Jane McGonigal

14. It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling—that really hollowed-out feeling.

- J.K. Rowling

15. No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever. The storm is just passing over.

- Iyanla Vanzant

16. Depression is living in a body that fights to survive, with a mind that tries to die.

- Danny Baker, Depression is a Liar

17. Depression isn’t a disease; depression is a normal response to abnormal life experiences.

- Johann Hari, Lost Connections

18. Our generation has had no great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

- Chuck Palahniuk

19. A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you’re in a room full of a million people.

- Lily Singh

20. There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them we will understand why they were there.

- Paolo Coelho

21. Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

- Joyce Meyer

22. I need one of those long hugs where you kinda forget whatever else is happening around you for minute.

- Marilyn Monroe

23. Whereas pain is a physical experience, suffering is a mental one. It is the sense that things should be other than they are. Its antidote is acceptance.

- Wu Hsin

24. Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

- Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

25. 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

26. 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, Prozac Nation

27. That’s how depression hits. You wake up one morning, afraid that you’re gonna live.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

28. The opposite of play is not work – the opposite of play is depression.

- Stuart Brown

29. Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

- Rob Delaney

30. Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Do not become bitter or hostile. Be hopeful, be optimistic.

- John Lewis

31. Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

- Eckhart Tolle

32. Almost everyone is overconfident except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.

- Joseph T. Hallinan

33. With depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you’re not alone.

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

34. I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

- Christopher Hitchens

35. All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

- Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climate

36. Frustrations come because we impose our illusions on reality.

- Osho

37. I tend to get pretty depressed and I have some issues with anxiety and things like that … For me, it’s more psychological. Exercise is a means of expelling those demons.

- Ryan Reynolds

38. It’s recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.

- Harry Truman

39. There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.

- Alan Watts

40. I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

- Amy Winehouse

41. Only stepping out of old ruts will bring new insights.

- Andy Grove

42. At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.

- Dorothy Hamill

43. 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, Cloud Atlas

44. There are times when explanations, no matter how reasonable, just don’t seem to help.

- Fred Rogers

45. 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

46. Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

- Jeanette Winterson

47. Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

- Jo Nesbo

48. Depression is, in part, grief for your own life not turning out how it should; grief for your own needs not being met.

- Johann Hari

49. Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

- Jane McGonigal

50. The five stages – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance – are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

51. Many depressed people can only see their pains, and their hurts, and their resentments, and their failures. They can’t see the blue sky and the yellow leaves, you know?

- Bill Richards

52. Every thought a person dwells upon, whether he expresses it or not, either damages or improves his life.

- Lucy Mallory

53. I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.

- Ji-Hae Park

54. Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

- William Gibson

55. I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

- Henry Rollins

56. I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn’t one I’ll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it’s worth it.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

57. Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

- Pythagoras

58. I have had issues with depression all my life, and it’s probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often – and this is quite common with comics – a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

- Jack Dee

59. 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

60. I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life. I just want these kids to know that this modern thing, where everyone is feeling shallow and less connected…that’s not human.

- Lady Gaga

61. Choose everyday to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed and most of all worthy of love.

- Alison Malee

62. Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

- Matt Lucas

63. Don’t trust your thought when you are depressed. It is highly unlikely that it is true. Whatever you are depressed about won’t last forever.

- Haemin Sunim

64. A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

- Charlotte Bront?

65. The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.

- Carrie Fisher

66. I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

67. This is my depressed stance. When you’re depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you’ll start to feel better. If you’re going to get any joy out of being depressed, you’ve got to stand like this.

- Charles Shultz

68. Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

- Mariella Frostrup

69. If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.

- Lao Tzu

70. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

- Stephen Fry

71. 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

72. I was only able to start changing my life when I realized my depression was not a malfunction. It’s a signal. Your depression is a signal. It’s telling you something.

- Johann Hari

73. To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins.

- Patt Stanger

74. 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

75. It’s brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

- Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

76. Depression and anxiety are a symptom of too much consumption and too little creation. You were put on this earth to create.

- Bill Masur

77. It is okay to have depression, it is okay to have anxiety and it is okay to have an adjustment disorder. We need to improve the conversation. We all have mental health in the same way we all have physical health.

- Prince Harry

78. 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

79. Depression doesn’t take away your talents—it just makes them harder to find.

- Lady Gaga

80. Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.

- Susan Polis Schutz

81. Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.

- Miriam Toews

82. If you are depressed and anxious, the main thing I want to tell you is: your pain makes sense. It has meaning. You aren’t a machine with broken parts. You are a human being with unmet needs. Don’t let anyone tell you you’re crazy or broken. You deserve love and practical support.

- Johann Hari

83. Anger is energizing. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

- Gloria Steinem

84. Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; Depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

- Andrew Solomon

85. If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

- Stephen Fry

86. Depression is melancholy minus its charms – the animation, the fits.

- Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor

87. I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

- Henry Rollins

88. Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

- Murray Gell-Mann

89. We cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever. We must stand up and move on to the next action.

- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

90. The only thing more exhausting than being depressed is pretending that you’re not.

- Unknown

91. The fundamental delusion – there is something out there that will make me happy and fulfilled forever.

- Naval Ravikant

92. People who have never dealt with depression think it’s just being sad or being in a bad mood. That’s not what depression is for me; it’s falling into a state of grayness and numbness.

- Dan Reynolds

93. I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I’m so depressed, or life is terrible.

- Tony Curtis

94. You largely constructed your depression. It wasn’t given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

- Albert Ellis

95. Depression lies. It tells you you’ve always felt this way, and you always will. But you haven’t, and you won’t.

- Halley Cornell