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22 Quotes That Beautifully Captivate The Pain That Is Depression

The sadness will last forever. 
Katie Mather
September 29, 2016
“The sadness will last forever.”
— Vincent Van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Living With Depression, Sadness, Forever, Mental Health
“I bet if you cut open my stomach, the black slug of depression would slide out.”
— Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
Tagged: Living With Depression, Sadness, Darkness, Mental Health
“Everything was a broken line for me in those days. I was slipped into the empty spaces between words.”
— Betsy Cornwell, Mechanica
Tagged: Living With Depression, Mental Health, broken, Words
“The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can’t get away from it. Not ever.”
— Nina LaCour, Hold Still
Tagged: Living With Depression, Sadness, heavy
“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
— Laurell K. Hamilton, Hold Still
Tagged: Living With Depression, Mental Health, Sadness, Deeper, Wound
“It’s a strange moment when you realize that you don’t want to be alive anymore.”
— Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half
Tagged: Living With Depression, alive, Depression
“I feel unspeakably lonely. And I feel—drained. It is a blank state of mind and soul I cannot describe to you as I think it would not make any difference.”
— Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
Tagged: Living With Depression, alive, Lonely, Drained, Mind, Soul, Alone
“The fatigue I’ve gathered year after year and stored inside now heaves a muted cry of helplessness. Nothing but fatigue, rounding my shoulders, heavier than ever on this late autumn day with a useless sun, a world of unforgiving disasters. So many struggles and tragedies, so much sorrow and egotism in this dark, in this rotting century of hate.”
— Emil Dorian, Quality of Witness
Tagged: Living With Depression, Mental Health, Fatigue, Diaster
“I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face and the moulting birds frozen to their own filth in the Orangerie. I know now I was in the throes of some small glandular crisis, a sublimated bilious attack, a flick from the whip of melancholia, but then it was terrifying…nameless….”
— M. F. K. Fisher, The Art of Eating
Tagged: Living With Depression, Chilling, Terrifying, Nameless, Living in the past
“And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore.”
— Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Tagged: Living With Depression, Heartbroken, Contentment, Grieving, Depression
“Slowly, my feelings started to shrivel up. The few that managed to survive the constant beatings staggered around like wounded baby deer, just biding their time until they could die and join all the other carcasses strewn across the wasteland of my soul.”
— Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half
Tagged: Living With Depression, Mental Health, alive
“Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there’s nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression….Depression is like a heaviness that you can’t ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it’s in your bones and your blood.”
— Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
Tagged: Living With Depression, Sadness, Darkness
“God knows I often retire to my bed wishing (at times even hoping) that I might never wake up; and in the morning I open my eyes, see the sun once again, and am miserable.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Tagged: Living With Depression, Sadness, Darkness, Mental Health, Miserable
“I just wanna have fun and breathe, but I can’t do either one of them when I suffocate myself with depression.”
— Lisa M. Cronkhite, Disconnected
Tagged: Living With Depression, Sadness, Darkness, Miserable, breathe, Suffocated
“The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.”
— Dick Cavett, On the Couch... with Dick Cavett
Tagged: Living With Depression, Horrifying, Brain, Depression
“I’ve been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind.”
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Tagged: Living With Depression, Sadness, Darkness, Mental Health, Discarded
“The tapestry of my life was a ruin of unraveling threads. The brightest parts were a nonsensical madman’s weaving. And now every day was a grey stitch, laid down with an outpatient’s patience, one following the next following the next, a story in lines, like a railway track to nowhere, telling absolutely nothing.”
— Alexis Hall, For Real
Tagged: Living With Depression, Sadness, Darkness, Mental Health, Unraveling
“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, It's Kind of a Funny Story
Tagged: Living With Depression, Darkness, Waking Up, Sleep, Nightmare, saddness
“Some friends don’t understand this. They don’t understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you’re wonderful just the way you are. They don’t understand that I can’t remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about If you loved me you would.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Tagged: Living With Depression, Sadness, Darkness, Mental Health, Waking Up, Demanding
“When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.”
— Fiona Apple, 19 Of The Best Quotes That Perfectly Explain What Depression Feels Like
Tagged: Living With Depression, Sadness, Darkness, Mental Health, Lonely
“Is there no way out the mind?”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Tagged: Living With Depression, Sadness, Darkness, Mental Health, Mind
“I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I’d lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be.”
— Marian Keyes, Anybody Out There?
Tagged: Living With Depression, Sadness, Darkness, Mental Health, Mind