Depression quotes

Discover powerful quotes and insights that shed light on the complexities of depression, offering solace, motivation, and encouragement to those facing this mental health challenge.

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

- Sylvia Plath

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

- Sylvia Plath

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

- Sylvia Plath

I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.

- Sylvia Plath

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

- Sylvia Plath

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.

- Sylvia Plath

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

- Sylvia Plath

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want.

- Sylvia Plath

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

- Cesare Pavese

How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?

- Cesare Pavese

Don’t mix wine and women.

- Cesare Pavese

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.

- Cesare Pavese

Widow. The word consumes itself.

- Sylvia Plath

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

- William Styron

Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes.

- Art Linkletter

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

- Cesare Pavese

Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

Let's face it, writing is hell.

- William Styron