Depressing Quotes

Depression is first reaction of sorrow, failure, loss, etc. Failure of any kind leads to depression which is quite unavoidable for even the toughest lot. Only the one who goes thorough that phase of life can feel the actual pain and anger. However, there are some depression quotes that will help a person understand the situation better and will also inspire him to get over it. On the other hand, depressive quotes will also help people understand the harsh realities of life in a better way. The following is a collection of such quotes on depression.

Depressing Quotes

These quotes can also help give insight to depression experienced by a near and dear one. Let us now take a look at the quotes.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

The secret source of humor itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
~ Mark Twain

It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.
~ Stanley Schmidt

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
~ Jim Rohn

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else!

Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts.
~ Penelope Sweet

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'
~ John Greenleaf Whittier

There's nothing more depressing than having it all and still feeling sad.
~ Anonymous

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone!
~ Anonymous

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
~ Horace

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
~ Malcolm X

Depressing Love Quotes

Lost love or lack of it is also one of the prominent reasons for sadness or depression. Here are some depression quotes on lost love.
~ Anonymous

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop!
~ Anonymous

There is one pain I often feel which you will never know because it is caused by the absence of you.
~ Anonymous

Love can sometimes be magic.
But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
~ Javan

She never found out how much I tried - all of the sadness she kept made me blind. She never found out how much I cried - the rope so tight on the night that she died...
~ Seether - Love Her

A million words would not bring you back, I know because I've tried.
Neither would a million tears, I know because I've cried.
~ Anonymous

I hate, I love - the cause thereof
Be like you ask of me;
I do not know, but feel 'tis so,
And I'm in agony.
~ Catullus

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.
~ Dante

Have you ever noticed that the worst way to miss someone is when they are right beside you and you can never have them?
~ Anonymous

Better to never have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
~ Otomo No Yakamochi

These are some sad and depressing quotes. They might have helped you to understand the situation and inspire you to get over it. One is always expected to get over this miserable condition as soon as possible. As one of the most famous famous sad quotes by Cynthia Nelms goes:

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy!