Depressed Quote Collection

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In keeping with the spirit of this website this "depressed quote" collection was compiled for its positive messages.  My aim, as always, is to nurture and encourage you in your recovery. However, if you are looking for a depressed quote written specifically about the experience of depression and/or recovery please click on the link. To go straight to a particular "depressed quote" category, click on the heading in the box below.

INSPIRATIONAL "DEPRESSED QUOTE" ON: ~ Attitude ~ Bigger Picture ~ Depression

INSPIRATIONAL "DEPRESSED QUOTE" ON: ~ Life ~ Positive Thinking

INSPIRATIONAL "DEPRESSED QUOTE" ON: ~ Qualities for Recovery ~ Taking Action

 

Inspirational "Depressed Quote" on:

LIFE

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I am permitted to hold for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
--George Bernard Shaw

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today."
--Dale Carnegie

Inspirational "Depressed Quote" on:

USEFUL QUALITIES FOR RECOVERY

"Persistence.  Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
--Calvin Coolidge

"Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself."
-- Nathaniel Brand

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."
--- Melody Beattie

Inspirational "Depressed Quote" on:

DEPRESSION

"Whenever someone sorrows, I do not say, "forget it," or "it will pass," or "it could be worse" -- all of which deny the integrity of the painful experience. But I say, to the contrary, "It is worse than you may allow yourself to think. Delve into the depth. Stay with the feeling. Think of it as a precious source of knowledge and guidance. Then and only then will you be ready to face it and be transformed in the process."
--Peter Koestenbaum

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know that just to be alive is a grand thing."
--Agatha Christie

"In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
-- Albert Camus

"Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth"
-- Philip Larkin

Inspirational "Depressed Quote" on:

POSITIVE THINKING

"The universe never says no to your thought about yourself.  It only grows it."
-- Neale Donald Walsch

"You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you." 
-- Dan Millman

"If you never change your mind, why have one?"
-- Edward De Bono

Inspirational "Depressed Quote" on:

POSITIVE ATTITUDE

"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"In moments of discouragement, defeat, or even despair, there are always certain things to cling to. Little things usually: remembered laughter, the face of a sleeping child, a tree in the wind—in fact, any reminder of something deeply felt or dearly loved. 
No man is so poor as not to have many of these small candles. When they are lighted, darkness goes away—and a touch of wonder remains." 
-- "These Small Candles" ...tombstone inscription in Britain

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." 
-- Helen Keller

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
--George Eliott

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
--Guillaume Apollinaire

Inspirational "Depressed Quote" on:

The BIGGER PICTURE

"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain."
-- Kahlil Gibran

"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me . . . You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
--Walt Disney

"One ceases to recognize the significance of mountain peaks if they are not viewed occasionally from the deepest valleys. " 
--- Dr. Al Lorin

Inspirational "Depressed Quote" on:

TAKING ACTION

"Take the first step, no more, no less, and the next will be revealed."
-- Ken Roberts

"After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
--Sophia Loren

"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." 
--Thomas Edison

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
--Mark Twain

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