Help With Depression Quotes:

When life beats you down, NEVER give up.

- Jared Padalecki

source: "7 Times Jared Padalecki Got Real About Dealing With Depression" by Ryan Roschke, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2015.

topic: Giving Up, Beats, Help With Depression

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

- Joyce Meyer

source: Twitter post from Feb 22, 2013

topic: Depression, Uplifting, Attitude, Overcoming Depression, Depressed People

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

- Laurell K. Hamilton

topic: Sad, Depression, Pain, Hurt Feelings, Feeling Depressed

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.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Depression, God, Encouragement, Pain And Pleasure, Joy And Pain

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.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

source: Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Depression, Keys, Sight, Insidious, Overcoming Depression

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

topic: Depression, Weather, Being Depressed, Depressed People, People With Depression

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

- Dodie Smith

source: I Capture the Castle (1949) pt. 1, ch. 3

topic: Love, Inspirational, Motivational, Being Depressed, Overcoming Depression

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.

- Stephen Fry

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Sympathy, Lethargy, Blackness

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.

- Ned Vizzini

topic: Sad, Depression, Suicide, Suicidal Thoughts, Committing Suicide

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Positive, Hell, Keep Going, Way In Life, Pushing On

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.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

topic: Inspirational, Life, Strength, Good Character, Soul Force

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

- Wayne Dyer

source: FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 12, 2010

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Choose Wisely, Get Over Yourself

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

topic: Life, Happiness, Sad, Sorrow And Happiness, Sorrow Love

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

- Leonard Cohen

source: Song: Anthem

topic: Life, Motivational, Inspiring, Hope And Faith, Darkness To Light

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

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

source: Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Depression, Pain, Being Sad, Feeling Depressed, Prozac Nation

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

topic: Depression, Pain, Heart, Mental Pain, Physical Pain

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

- Francis of Assisi

source: President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Take Nothing For Granted, Inspirational Achievement

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

topic: Lethargy, Being Depressed, People With Depression, Help With Depression

I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Believe, Inspiration, Contentment, Kindness And Compassion, Being Depressed

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

- Rollo May

source: "Love and Will". Book by Rollo May, ch. 9, 1969.

topic: Sad, Depression, Depressing, Being Depressed, Overcoming Depression

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

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, Joy Of Living, Joy To The World

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

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Courage, Soul Healing, Godlike

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.

- Grenville Kleiser

source: "On the Art of Business". Book by James Howard Merkel, Abdul Wahab Al-Falaij, p.66, February 1, 2004.

topic: Inspiring, Depression, Funny Inspirational, Gin And Tonic, Mind And Body

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

- Steven Wright

topic: Depression, Sarcastic, Anger, Being Depressed, Overcoming Depression

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.

- Jared Padalecki

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: War, Fighting, Winning, Help With Depression

I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

- Leonard Cohen

source: Song: Anthem

topic: Running, Prayer, Light, Light Up, Depression Inspirational

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.

- Jared Padalecki

topic: Struggle, Support, Needs, Proud Of You, Help With Depression

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.

- Jared Padalecki

source: "'Always Keep Fighting': The Campaign Leading The Discussion Against Self-Harm" by Mckenzie Foust, www.theodysseyonline.com. March 28, 2016.

topic: Suicide, New Year, Struggle, Dear Friend, Help With Depression

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

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Marathon Runners

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.

- Jared Padalecki

topic: Gestures, Helping, Difficult Times, Kind Words, Help With Depression

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

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging, Help With Depression, Uplifting In Hard Times

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.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

topic: Inspirational, Games, Interesting, Inspiring Self Esteem, Self Pity

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

- Neil Lennon

topic: Dark, Light, Knowing, Corridors, Help With Depression

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?

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

source: Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Mean, Simple, Dope, Substance Abuse, Help With Depression