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41 Quotes Of Depression And Anxiety

Devouring Words June 8, 2022

In the United States, Major Depressive Disorder affects approximately 16.1 million people or 6.7% of the population each year. Along with the high rates of depression, anxiety disorders rates are much higher at an astounding 40 million people per year or 18.1% of the population each year.

While both of these mental illness rates are high, what about the population of people dealing with depression and anxiety?

Many people fight a daily unseen battle with depression and anxiety. For those suffering, it is not an easy battle and the two disorders themselves have opposite symptoms and side effects. Yet, both disorders fuel one another to cause a storm of mental and physical side effects to a person’s life.

If you fall into the category of people who struggle with both depression and anxiety, then you need to read these perfectly relatable quotes of depression and anxiety!

41 Quotes Of Depression And Anxiety

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
Elizabeth Wurtzel

It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there because it’s not sadness
J.K. Rowling

People think depression is sadness. That it’s crying and dressing in black, but people are wrong. Depression is the constant feeling of being numb. It’s being numb to emotions, being numb to life. You wake up in the morning just to go back to bed again
Unknown

You don’t understand depression until you can’t stand your own presence in an empty room
Unknown

Having anxiety and depression is like being scared and tired at the same time. It’s the fear of failure but no urge to be productive. It’s wanting friends but hating to socialize. It’s wanting to be alone but not wanting to be lonely. It’s caring about everything, then caring about nothing. It’s feeling everything at once, then feeling paralyzingly numb
Unknown

Depression is like a heavy blanket. It covers all of me, and it’s hard to get up. But there’s comfort in it too. I know who I am when I’m under it
Unknown

Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart
Willian C. Hannan

Depression is living in a body that fights to survive, with a mind that tries to die
Unknown

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It’s not always the tears that measure the pain. Sometimes it’s the smile we fake
Unknown

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless, and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that
Robin Williams

When you’re feeling anxious, remember that you’re still you. You are not anxiety. Whenever you feel otherwise, remember that’s the anxiety talking. You are still you and hold the power in every moment
Deanne Repich

The head worries and the heart feels. They cannot function at the same time. When your feelings dominate, worry dissolves
Gurudeve Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one
John C. Maxwell

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’
Unknown

I am bent, but not broken. I am scarred, but not disfigured. I am sad, but not hopeless. I am tired, but not powerless. I am angry, but not bitter. I am depressed, but not giving up
Unknown

I have depression. But I prefer to say “I battle” depression instead of “I suffer” with it. Because depression hits, but I hit back. Battle on
Unknown

Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is
Unknown

When you suffer from depression ‘I’m tired’ means a permanent state of exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix
Unknown

No one realizes how strong someone with depression has to be just to do daily stuff like shower, brush hair or get out of bed
Unknown

When you’re depressed you don’t control your thoughts, your thoughts control you. I wish people would understand this
Unknown

Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I’ve made that commitment for my life’s sake and for the sake of those who love me
Susan Polis Schutz

Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do
Stephen Fry

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems
Epictetus

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Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths
C.H. Spurgeon

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly
Ali Ibn Abi Talib AS

Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far
Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry
Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary

When I don’t have something to worry about, I worry. Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry
Brian Richardson

It’s society’s stigma that traumatizes people and causes anxiety, depression and suicide
Marty Rubin

If I am late it is because I was too anxious to leave
Sabrina Benaim, Depression and Other Magic Tricks

You’re worried, but you also aim for perfection. You’re stressed, but you also never slow down
Maxime Lagace

If we are always seeking conclusions, our minds are slave to fear
Maxime Lagace

And do not spend time in the present taking thought as to the best course in possible future emergencies; have faith in your ability to meet any emergency when it arrives
Wallace D. Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich

Sometimes the worst place you can be is inside your own head
Honeya

Anxiety never rings the doorbell. It sneaks in through the windows
Rajesh

It’s unsettling, to be so far from home- all her usual anxieties lifted, only to be replaced with new ones
Kristin Cashore, Jane, Unlimited

With every goal, wish, or plan we deem important, we invite anxiety
Mokokoma Makhanoana

We often suffer more from our response to a difficulty, than from the difficulty itself. Panic and anxiety don’t lessen what we are facing, they magnify it
J.S. Felts, Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate and Inspire

Anxiety is never your fault. Neither is it an innate part of who you are. Change is possible
Chloe Brotheridge, The Anxiety Solution: A Quieter Mind, a Calmer You

The anxiety in my life isn’t every moment. Sometimes it’s manageable. Occasionally I don’t think about it that much. But it’s always lurking
Dr. Steve West