Depressing Quotes

"All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!"

Dr. Seuss

"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."

John Green

"Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die."

John Green

"She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?"

Cassandra Clare

"Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes."

Robert Jordan

"...and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along."

Mark Z. Danielewski

"The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else's hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them."

J. Cornell Michel

"No - no - no!"someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!"And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face."

J.K. Rowling

"I can’t think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose."

Daniel Willey

"No - no - no!" someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!"And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face."

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

"And will 'a not come again? And will 'a not come again? No, no, he is dead, Go to thy death bed: He will never come again."

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love."

Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

"A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The sky was pearly grey. It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which memories crowd upon one, memories of other shores, of other faces."

Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

"Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"I'd have my happy ending, whether I deserved it or not. But this land, these people - they would have their happy ending too. The first few steps toward healing. Toward peace. And then things would be fine. Then I'd be fine."

Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

"It is a crushing moment when you realize that your life has either been a series of huge mistakes, or worse; it hasn’t."

Temperance

"The abrupt reality of his situation was a depressing thought."

Jason Medina, A Ghost In New Orleans

"You're FAT - and don't try to sugarcoat it, because you'll just eat that, too."

Phillip C. McGraw

"you ultimately become the one/what you hate."

Elia Maxwell

"Truthfully she felt incredibly miserable, seeing university students and tourists bustling in and out of the place with their cell phones in hand, texting like there was no tomorrow. Living behind a screen, they’d likely text with their last breath."

Rebecca McNutt, Smog City

"After all, suicide is contagious."

Suzanne Young, The Program

"I’m busy saving everybody else when I can’t even save myself"

Rajesh

"She wondered how many towns like this existed all over the country?Bucolic scenery on the outside, with its own private soap operas, gossips and hells on the inside. She wondered if the suburbs in huge cities were merely a collection of small towns, piled on top of each other and each place was ultimately the same. The thought struck her as exceedingly depressing. However, her spirits were not in their best shape."

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"It seems to me that our lives are consumed by countless wasting years, but only a few shining moments. I missed mine. Yes is what I should have said. Of course I should have said yes."

Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here

"Well, enough of this introspection. It’s depressing, quite frankly."

Sol Luckman, Snooze: A Story of Awakening

"Better my right hand should have been cut off. Go know I was setting in motion events that would lead to the ruin of one of the few truly good men I ever met."

Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version

"Islam is not dark but very bright indeed. Islam is not depressing but instead, quite uplifting and inspiring. Islam is not about censoring but instead it is about voluntary submission."

Norhafsah Hamid, Back to Basics

"From the moment we are born, we begin to die."

Janne Teller, Nothing

"There's a lot of beauty to be found in sadness and melancholia. One of the things that you find time and time again - not just with music, but with literature - is that things that appear to be quite depressing on the surface can ironically be very uplifting and touching to other people. When you hear something that really reminds you that you're not alone in feeling sad, depressed, melancholic, angry - I think that can actually be a very cathartic experience."

Steven Wilson

"Magic. I draw with silver and it turns red."

Anonymous

"Love isn't about to show off or to go on dates. Its about being with a person who makes you feel special, who gives you a feeling that no one else does. The one who can completely understand you and can laugh on your lame jokes. The one to whom you trust the most and can share your problems. The one who can make wrong things right. Person with whom you can spend your whole life."

Taimoor Madni

"JASON: 'Intended wings.' How depressing.MICHAEL: Yes. Makes them into suicides, really, the pigeons.JASON: No - no, it doesn't. It could mean the wings were 'intended' to carry them upwards, out of the darkness, but they were defective in some way, these wings, so the pigeons aren't suicidal, not at all, just badly equipped for flying. Like the rest of us."

Simon Gray

"Where is my chance to be somebody's Peter Van Houten?' He hit the steering wheel weakly, the car honking as he cried. He leaned his head back, looking up. 'I hate myself I hate myself I hate this I hate this I disgust myself I hate it I hate it I hate it just let me fucking die."

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

"I got an A on the third quiz in American history, an A, dammit. Last time I got a Bup from a Cand my father said,"if you can get a Cyou can get a B,if you can get a Byou can get an A."-I got an Aand my father said,"grades don't mean anything."

Thalia Chaltas, Because I Am Furniture

"I no longer pursue happiness, for it alludes me in every occasion. It is as if I'm trying to find something that is invisible, and sometimes I can't help to wonder if I'm the only one who it is oblivious to"

Dave Guerrero

"And I didn't think even eternity would be long enough to fix me."

Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

"Alone in my bedroom, I realized I couldn't remember the last time I'd truly laughed."

Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

"It's more real to me here than if I went up," he suddenly heard himself say; and the fear lest that last shadow of reality should lose its edge kept him rooted to his seat as the minutes succeeded each other."

Edith Wharton

"There is no greater despair, than to tread with care upon ice that is already broken"

Johnathan Jena

"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.This means the when you go to sleep you close your eyes and you are and look like you are dead but then when you wake up it looks like you are reborn because you are up and ready."

Mahatma Gandhi

"And that's just it. This is how it is. Always. To pay attention to things. People. It's too easy to fail other people. And the good-byes. You never have the time you think. It brings tears to my eyes. I blink them away."

Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep

"Sometimes I feel so alone in the world. A tiny speck of nothing in a sea of emptiness."

Edwyna Hughes

"It was like this blackness that crept into the corners of my life until everything was grey and dirty. My insides felt burnt out, like if you cut me open, all you would find would be smoke. No heart. No bones. There was nothing left, just the anger. It followed me everywhere. It sat on my bed and watched me sleep and when I had to eat, it looked at me across the table."

Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

"There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity."

Galt Niederhoffer, The Romantics

"He was sort of beautiful. In his own dark, depressing way, but still. She was going to miss that stupid fucking beautiful face."

Allie Burke, Paper Souls

"Accept that you're just a product, not a gift."

Konrad

"Its just human nature. People forget past and only care about their present and don't think what will happen in future..."

Taimoor Madni

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