Depression is known to be one of the most common and difficult mental disorders to deal with, as people tend to normalize and they forget all the negative effects that they are generating for their life and how it affects the lives of those around them. However, depression, due to its melancholic and sad element, has served as a source of inspiration for numerous works, perhaps as a form of catharsis for artists who suffered from this illness.
That is why in this article we bring you some reflections and well-known phrases about depression and its effect on people.
Phrases and reflections on depression
These phrases allow us to see both the 'normality' in living with depression and the struggle to leave it behind.
one. Depression is fueled by unhealed wounds. (Penelope Sweet)
When we do not give importance to healing our wounds, they become infinite sadness.
2. The key to change is to free yourself from fear. (Rosanne Cash)
Accepting having a problem is not a weakness. It is the most important step to improve.
3. There are wounds that are never seen on the body that are deeper and more painful than any that bleeds. (Laurell K. Hamilton)
Emotional wounds always keep your pain intact.
4. I am bent, but not broken. I am marked, but not disfigured. I am sad, but not without hope. I am tired, but not powerless. I'm angry, but not bitter. I'm depressed, but I'm not giving up.
An insight into what depression feels like.
5. Today I am only for sorrows, today I have no friendship, today I only want to rip my heart out and put it under a shoe. (Miguel Hernandez)
Depression makes you want to hurt yourself mercilessly instead of seeking comfort.
6. How wonderful my life has been, I wish I had realized it sooner. (Colette)
In illness, people are unable to see the positive side of their lives.
7. One thing is for sure, sitting around and feeling miserable won't make things happier. (The boy in the striped pajamas)
It can be hard, but the only way to get over depression is to want to.
8. Every day is a nightmare that I wake up from when I fall asleep.
Consolation is only found when you stop thinking.
9. When you're happy, you enjoy the music, but when you're sad, you understand the lyrics.
Sadness gives new meaning to everything around us.
10. The most terrible of all feelings is that of having dead hope. (Federico García Lorca)
When we feel that hope is over, there is no reason to get up.
11.There is nothing as intoxicating as that disturbance of the spirit, sadness, which drags a man to death itself. (San Geronimo)
Sadness and loneliness are very addictive.
12. Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. (Dodie Smith)
When you start doing small actions, your perception of what you are capable of doing improves.
13. Having anxiety and depression is like being scared and tired at the same time. It's the fear of failure, but there's no need to be productive.
The duality that is present in depression disorders.
14. Depression is when you look down and can't see your feet.
In depression, sadness is so immense that it seems like a bottomless abyss.
fifteen. Our war is the spiritual war, our great depression is our life. (Brad Pitt)
Sometimes the problem is not what surrounds us, but how we observe it.
16. I hope that one day this pain will be useful for something.
A recurring thought in people with depression. And even without it.
17. Getting better from depression requires a commitment.
If the person is not committed to the intervention, then he can never get over her sadness
18. Depression is a prison in which you are both the prisoner and the cruel jailer. (Dorthy Rowe)
The reality of the power of depression.
19. Happiness for me consists in enjoying good he alth, sleeping without fear and waking up without anguish. (Francoise Sagan)
A very realistic vision of happiness that not everyone considers.
twenty. The most terrible type of poverty is loneliness and the feeling of not being loved.
Feeling unwanted leaves a void in the soul that is difficult to fill.
twenty-one. Depression is not a direct response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.
Depression is a succession of bad events that have the same effect as a snowball.
22. Depression is anger without enthusiasm.
It is an emotion that lacks intensity.
23. The only thing worse than a child dying is that he wants to die. (Joan Dalmau)
Parents find themselves in a desperate position as they feel useless for not resolving their children's situation.
24. Don't forget that the more you suffer, the stronger you can become; because if you get over it, you'll be much better than before you felt bad.
A great phrase to motivate you to overcome depression.
25. It has been my philosophy that difficulties vanish when we face them.
The only way to improve is to face what hurts us.
26. Anger is energizing. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward. (Gloria Steinem)
Depression is a direct attack on ourselves.
27. Sadness is a wall between two gardens. (Khalil Gibran)
The only way out of her is to scale that wall.
28. Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed. (Mason Cooley)
If you can get out of bed, you can get up from any fall.
29. Depression is the inability to build a future. (Roll May)
When depressed, people stagnate in time and cannot move forward.
30. Nobody can judge. Only one knows the dimension of his own suffering, or of the total absence of meaning in his life. (Paulo Coelho)
No person can truly understand the extent of another's discomfort.
31. Depressed people think they know themselves well. But what they don't know is that between their personality and what they see there is a wall called depression.
Depressed people cannot see their own potential.
32. I'm happy to feel, although I'm usually sad to feel. (José Narosky)
When emotions run wild, they tend to be upsetting.
33. When you change the way you see things, the things you see change too. (Wayne Dyer)
Depression is nothing more than an alteration in one's perception of reality.
3. 4. There is nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad.
The material will never fill that emptiness that exists inside the hearts.
35. The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. (Marcus Aurelius)
A phrase that is a real statement.
36. Living in the past only blinds you to the future. (Andrew Boyd)
By clinging to yesterday we cannot see or prepare for when tomorrow comes.
37. The man who is afraid without danger, invents the danger to justify his fear. (Alain)
Sometimes people need to find excuses to feel bad.
38. I know what it is to wish to die. What hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to kill your inside. (Winona Ryder)
Depression is a silent and slow murder of oneself.
39. That person who is always talking and laughing might cry uncontrollably in the dim light of her room.
Remember that not all sadness is visible to the naked eye.
40. Tell me friend, is life sad or am I sad? (Loved nerve)
A constant question on the minds of many.
41. Do not anticipate problems or worry about what may happen: stay in the sunlight. (Benjamin Franklin)
Anticipatory thoughts only cause unnecessary discomfort.
42. It's sad how one day I seem to have it all and the next day I lose it all so quickly.
Many people are not aware of the value of what they own.
43. A person can feel lonely, even when many people love them. (Anna Frank)
One of the most frequent feelings in depression.
44. If you cry for not seeing the light of the sun, the tears do not let you see the light of the stars. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Sometimes it's just a matter of perspective.
Four. Five. The price to get out of depression is humility. (Bert Hellinger)
Accept that you have a problem and learn the lessons of the process.
46. Joy and sorrow. This strange mixture is what evokes depression.
In depression there is a cluster of emotions that seem to make no sense.
47. The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow. (Bob Marley)
Sometimes what hurts us the most is remembering when we were happy and knowing that now we are not.
48. Good humor is a tonic for the mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. (Grenville Kleiser)
Laughing has a healing effect that we sometimes underestimate.
49. Depression is like drowning, except no one can see you.
A taste of the depth of its intensity.
fifty. Each sigh is like a sip of life that one gets rid of. (Juan Rulfo)
Over time, depressed people feel the meaning of their lives being lost.
51. I don't want to be free of dangers, I just want courage to face them. (Marcel Proust)
By having the courage to face our fears, we don't let them control us.
52. I did not remember the reason for living and when I did remember it, it did not convince me. (Joaquin Phoenix)
The solution for depression is not always the same for each person.
53. Depression is the eternal imprint of a blow that you received in the depths of your soul.
It's not about suppressing the pain you feel, it's about finding a way to stop it.
54. Much of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying it needs work. (Geoffrey Norman)
Today, what it really means to be depressed has been completely altered.
55. My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened. (Michel de Montaigne)
The magnitude of the impact of events only lives in our minds.
56. All people have their secret sorrows that the world does not know about and sometimes, we call them cold when they are just sad.
There are people who are distant just so that no one knows their sorrows.
57. I smile and that's not why I'm happy, because sometimes I smile to hide my sadness.
Humor does not always denote happiness.
58. Suffering from depression is being dead in life, wanting to leave and gather the courage to release the weight of pain. (Diego Digiano)
A very accurate interpretation of feeling depressed.
59. Trips down memory lane are never good when you're down. (Stephen King)
Memories, when depressed, are never welcome.
60. In large part, you built your depression. It was not given to you. Therefore, you can destroy it. (Albert Ellis)
Depression is something we make, and therefore eliminating it is up to us.
61. It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true for both men and dogs. (Eric Hoffer)
Depression can arise when people are uncomfortable being alone with themselves but very much like being isolated from others.
62. I tell women to try not to get depressed, because depression is the worst enemy of love. And without love, there is no life. (Tita Merello)
Depression drives away love completely.
63. Personality develops based on beatings and bad experiences, not based on living calm and happy.
We must learn to see bad times only as life lessons.
64. In the shadow, far from the light of day, melancholy sighs on the sad bed, the pain next to her and the migraine in her head. (Alexander Pope)
Melancholy is the preferred state of people with depression.
65.When I was drinking the world was still out there, but at the moment it didn't have you by the throat. (Charles Bukowsky)
Vices are also a manifestation of depression.
66. Nothing is so insufferable for man as being completely inactive, without passions, without occupations, without diversions, without effort. Then he feels his insignificance, his inadequacy, his weakness, his emptiness. (José Antonio Marina)
It is when the feeling of impotence and uselessness that constantly afflicts the mind that people stop being interested in life.
67. Joy does not come from not having obstacles in life, but from stumbling over them, falling over them, getting up and overcoming them.
Staying in the abyss is what generates despair.
68. Beware of sadness, he is a vice. (Gustave Flaubert)
Sadness can be contagious and addictive.
69. The true pain is the one that is suffered without witnesses. (Marco Valerio Marcial)
Why do we insist on hiding the pain?
70. I have had many dark nights, of course, but giving in to depression would be a betrayal, a defeat. (Christopher Hitchens)
Depression should never be the end of a difficulty.
71. My pain turned to sadness and my sadness to anger. My anger turned to hate and I forgot how to smile.
Depression is a vicious cycle of negative emotions.
72. You make everyone laugh so you don't get depressed.
Even laughter may be nothing more than a mask for sadness.
73. Desire, accompanied by the idea of being satisfied, is called hope, stripped of such an idea, despair. (Thomas Hobbes)
A great analogy about desire.
74. Unhappy is the one who thinks about her childhood and only evokes memories of fear and sadness. (H.P. Lovecraft)
A happy childhood can change everything in adulthood.
75. Depression and I are friends, but I don't like his company.
You should never be comfortable with sadness.