Help With Depression Quotes

When life beats you down, NEVER give up.

Don't underestimate your own strength. To persevere. To make it through the most difficult of times. And, JUST as importantly, don't underestimate your ability to help someone ELSE during THEIR most difficult times. Sometimes all it takes is a kind word, or gesture, to help someone make it through their day.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

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.

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

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. The fog is like a cage without a key.

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.

It's a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor never knowing when the light will go on.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

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.

The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Ring the bells that still can ring.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

If you're out there and need help, please seek it. Be proud of your valiant day-to-day struggle. There is no shame in needing support.

On New Year's Eve, my dear friend lost his battle with depression . . . Though he wasn't the first friend I've lost to suicide, I sure hope he's the last. I wish I had the chance to go back and tell them what they meant to me. I wish I had the chance to beg them to seek help, to keep fighting. I wish they knew that they were surrounded by countless others who struggle on a daily basis.

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.

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

Every man has his secret sorrows.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

There's no shame in having to fight every day, but fighting every day, and presumably, if you're still alive to hear these words or read this interview, then you are winning your war. You're here.

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. 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.

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

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

Getting help for substance abuse can be reduced to the deceptively simple focus of ‘keeping away from the dope.’ But what does getting help with depression mean? Learning to keep away from your own mind?

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.