Best sadness & depression Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.”

“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.”

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Author:John Keats

“One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.”

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Author:Jackie Kennedy

“I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.”

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Author:Richard Marx

“Depression is the inability to construct a future.”

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Author:Rollo May

“I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.”

“This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.”

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Author:Charles M. Schulz

“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.”

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Book:Life After God

Source: Life After God

“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this--through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication, we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime.”

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Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”

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Book:The Bean Trees: A Novel

Source: The Bean Trees: A Novel

“It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes in degrees, it can be a candle burning gently and harmlessly in your home, or it can be a full-fledged forest fire that destroy almost everything and is controlled by almost nothing. It can also be so much in-between”

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Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”

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Book:The Bean Trees: A Novel

Source: The Bean Trees: A Novel

“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.”

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Author:Ned Vizzini

“Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.”

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Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.”

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Book:Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

“Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.”

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Author:Dustin Hoffman

“Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.”

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Book:Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion

Source: Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion

“May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.”

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Book:For Your Eye Alone

Source: For Your Eye Alone

“However, I must admit that keeping myself to myself has not always been comforting. At times, I seemed to suffer spells of depression and loneliness, longing to become healthy again; of going out and facing a world of injustices, of misery, of widespread indifference.”

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Book:Strangers In Another Country

Source: Strangers In Another Country

“...Sometimes they open it up like a package in the presence of a person they can talk to,' she said. 'Someone they can trust.' She held out her hands. 'Any person who is carrying a lot of sadness,' she said, 'needs to be able to rest sometimes, and to put it down.”

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Author:Julia Schumacher

“Reminiscences of old, dried-over pains were no consolation in the face of this. They had the effect of cold beads of water on a hot iron - they danced and fizzled up while the room stank from their steam.”

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Book:The Women of Brewster Place

Source: The Women of Brewster Place

“Don’t underestimate your tears. They have the power to strengthen your commitment to your life’s purpose and to direct you towards your goal. So, when you cry because of the people who mock or taunt you, be positive and make promises with yourself that you will prove them wrong.”

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Author:Saad Salman

“...she says, Even when you think you can't bear it, you can bear it. He doesn't say anything. Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles, she says. Believe me. I have been where you are.”

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Book:Arcadia

Source: Arcadia

“It's crazy how sometimes you have to be destroyed to be made anew.”

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Author:Rh Sin

“Sitting alone in a room full of people made me realize just how precious thoughts are.”

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Author:Anthony t hincks

“Do not allow your happiness to be controlled by the thoughts of others. People are happy for you one minute and then the next they are looking down their noses at you. You have to find within yourself the kind of happiness that withstands the ups and downs of life. No one should have the power to limit or repress your happiness.”

Source: Heart Crush

“Wisdom is knowing the right thing to do and doing it at the right time to get the desired result. It is also the correct application of knowledge.”