Sometimes we need a mental break from whatever is going on in our lives. It’s nice to have the internet at our fingertips to keep our minds occupied. I researched some of my favorite quotes for depression and anxiety, and hopefully, you will get some enjoyment out of them.
Mental Health is just as important as physical fitness. We need to stay mentally strong in order to care for ourselves and those that rely on use. If you need some help with this, you can try the following:
- Listen to Music
- Do Something You Enjoy
- Exercise
- Try to Eat Better
- Visit Family/Friends
- Volunteer
- Seek Help if Needed
- Anything Else that Works for You
Okay so now we’re ready. Here are some of our top quotes…
Pop Culture Quotes for Depression and Anxiety
“I don’t want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
“I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”
― Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins
“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
“Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
― Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”
― Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation
“I’ve spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won’t leave, and fearing that it’s a matter of time before they figure me out and go.”
― Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
“We don’t have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Free time is death to the anxious, and thank goodness I don’t have any of it right now.”
― Jon Stewart
“In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.”
― Judy Garland
“It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling— that really hollowed-out feeling.”
― J.K. Rowling
“A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Quotes for Depression and Anxiety in History
“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
“If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.”
― Rumi
I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side. – Abraham Lincoln
“The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
― Epictetus
“The land! That is where our roots are. There is the basis of our physical life. The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity. From the land comes everything that supports life, everything we use for the service of physical life. The land has not collapsed or shrunk in either extent or productivity. It is there waiting to honor all the labor we are willing to invest in it, and able to tide us across any dislocation of economic conditions.” — Henry Ford
“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.”
― Harry S. Truman
“Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.”
― Ronald Reagan
“If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.”
― Hippocrates
Quotes for Depression and Anxiety in Science
“But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.” ― Albert Einstein
“The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
“We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
“Just as anxiety can feed on itself, so can courage.”
― John J. Ratey, Spark, The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
“At first I became depressed. I seemed to be getting worse pretty rapidly. There didn’t seem any point in working on my Ph.D. because I didn’t know I would live long enough to finish it.” — Stephen W. Hawking
“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the effect of anxiety.” – Sigmund Freud
Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined … They are individuals in their own right.— Jane Goodall
Literature and Philosophical Quotes
“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more’ … Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: ‘You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
“The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne.”
― William Styron
“Make not your thoughts your prisons.” ―William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra
“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.” – William Shakespeare
“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.” —Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” —Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There’s still lots of good in the world.” —S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
“I will not say do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.” —J.R.R. Tolkien, Return of the King
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise.
Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames.
And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
― David Foster Wallace
“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship. – Fyodor Dostoevsky