Looking for quotes about feeling down in life? We have rounded the best collection of feeling down quotes, sayings, captions for Instagram, texts, and status messages, (with images and pictures) that you might relate to.
Also, some of these positive quotes will help you overcome the low feeling and uplift your mood.
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To feel down means To feel depressed or unhappy. In life there comes a point when the whole world and its existence seem so meaningless.
You may feel everything is unnecessary and this may fill you deep down with a feeling of really feeling down spiritually, emotionally, and personally. This sad emotion of being hurt is unexplainable to others.
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This feeling is emotionally draining and might have many underlying reasons like being alone, betrayal, disappointment, heartbreak, financial struggle, death, or a bad experience in life.
Don’t forget to check out our collection of Depressing Love Quotes and loneliness quotes which are sad but relatable when you are going through a breakup with your love.
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These quotes and others like them can help us to navigate the ups and downs of life, and find meaning and purpose in the face of adversity.
They remind us that there is always hope for a brighter tomorrow and that we have the inner strength and resilience to overcome even the most challenging of circumstances.
Top 10 Feeling Down Quotes
- “I feel like I’m losing myself.”
- “Feeling a little blue.”
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“That feeling when you don’t even know what you are feeling.”
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“It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.” – Missy Altijd
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“It’s not about forcing happiness, its about not letting the sadness win.”
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“I’m so sick of pretending that I’m okay when I’m breaking down inside.”
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“No I may not be physically alone… But mentally there is no one in sight..”
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“That feeling that you’re not necessarily sad, but you just feel really empty.”
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“The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.” – Saadi
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“I’m a simple person, who hides a thousand feelings behind the happiest smile.”
Sad Quotes About Feeling Down
Feeling down can have a significant impact on our emotional and mental well-being, affecting our relationships, work, and overall quality of life.
It can be a temporary state, or it can become chronic and develop into depression.
With time, patience, and the right support, we can learn to overcome our feelings of sadness and move forward with hope and resilience.
- “It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” – Henry Rollins
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“When you are feeling down, look at the skies. You are not always alone.” – EunB
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“I will always appreciate a person who can make me laugh when I’m feeling down.”
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“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
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“Write your sad times in sand, write your good times in stone.” – George Bernard Shaw
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“You have it within you to rise above whatever is bringing you down.” – Karen Salmansohn
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“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” – E.A. Bucchianeri
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“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” – Maya Angelou
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“I miss you so bad / A thought of you makes me sad / I’m going mad” – Nicolas Pablo Munoz
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“Sometimes sitting and doing nothing is the best something you can do.” – Karen Salmansohn
When You Feel Down Quotes
- “A person who displays a negative character generates a negative atmosphere.” – Jean Watson
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“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” – Nicholas Sparks
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“You are more powerful than your circumstances. They don’t define you. You do.” – Jon Gordon
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“What is this feeling? / Empty inside my head / Feels like a heart attack” – Nicolas Pablo Munoz
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“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran
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“Twice as many women as men will suffer a serious bout of depression in their lives.” – Matt Haig
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“Once the heart gets too heavy with pain, people don’t cry. They just turn silent. Completely silent.”
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“I would rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.” – Kenneth Branagh
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“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.” – George Eliot
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“Sometimes I still have to take a breath and remind myself that not everyone will break me like you do.”
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“Regrets are the tears of choices not made, and of good deeds left undone.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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“I woke up this morning / Feeling lonely / You were gone, and my cellphone too” – Nicolas Pablo Munoz
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“Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.” – David Levithan
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“Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart.” – William C. Hannan
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“I knew it would happen / Everyone will leave me / I will remain alone / I knew it, I know it” – Ehsan Sehgal
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“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins
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“It’s raining in my heart like it’s raining in the city. What is this sadness that pierces my heart?” – Sonya Sones
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“Well, when I’m sad, I like to read a really sad story because then I don’t feel so sad myself.” – Blanche Hanalis
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“Sometimes when you’re in a dark place, you tend to think you have been buried; what if you’ve been planted?”
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“Sometimes when I say “I’m okay”, I want someone to look me in the eyes, hug me tight and say “I know you’re not”.”
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“When someone you love dies, you don’t lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time.” – Simon Birch
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“Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.” – Christopher Morley
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“I think I’m afraid to be happy because whenever I get too happy, something bad always happens.” – Charles Schulz
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“It is my fate; it is my prize / To living alone / To smile alone / To cry alone / To dry my tears alone” – Ehsan Sehgal
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“Embrace your grief and your sadness felt towards those that have passed and remember them with love.” – Aaron Soltys
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“I think the worst feeling in the world is knowing that someone you used to talk to every day doesn’t care about you anymore.”
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“A big part of letting go is recognizing when it is time to stay in a situation and when it is time to move on.” – Darren L. Johnson
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“Sometimes you’ve got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.” – Christopher Barzak
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“What a sick, sick feeling / To let you go, my dear / Cause I was not prepared to / Let you go, let you go” – Nicolas Pablo Munoz
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“I don’t think people understand how stressful it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself.”
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“One in five people gets depression at some point in their life. Though obviously more than that will suffer from mental illness.” – Matt Haig
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“Depression / even when all the cuckoos of this Universe / boisterously chirped around me / for hours immemorial.” – Nikhil Parekh
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“Night is beautiful when you are happy–comforting when you are in grief–terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.” – L.M. Montgomery
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“When feeling overwhelmed by a faraway goal, repeat: I have it within me right now, to get me to where I want to be later.” – Karen Salmansohn
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“Over-thinking ruins you. It ruins the situation. It twists things around. It makes you worry. It just makes everything worse than it actually is.”
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“As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.” – Tabitha Suzuma
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“You can go to the doctor a million times if you’re feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.” – Gail Porter
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“Even when you are feeling down, you have to live your life positively, that way, happy days and happy feelings will come to you someday.” – Kim Hyun-joong
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“Whenever you leave behind failure that means you’re doing better. If you think everything you’ve done has been great, you’re probably dumb.” – Louis CK
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“You were merely wishing for the end of pain, the monster said. Your own pain. An end to how it isolated you. It is the most human wish of all.” – Patrick Ness
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“It’s a sad, sad song that I’m singing, / It’s a sad, sad tale that I tell, / About a love that a poor girl is bringing, / To a man who is destined for Hell.” – Al C. Ward
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“In time, every sad ending will become happy. The sad ending is only because the author stops telling the story. But it still goes on. It’s just untold.” – Mark Polish
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“I try to make myself do things for other people when I’m feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.” – Abigail Breslin
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“Most of my life I’ve had long periods of feeling down and lost. That’s why every five years or so I’ve smashed my life to pieces and started again.” – Siobhan Fahey
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“Life is like a book. Some chapters are sad, some are happy, and some are exciting. But if you never turn the page, you will never know what the next chapter holds.”
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“You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.” – Bob Marley
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“I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.” – Helen Keller
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“It is not, Dear, because I am alone / For I am lonelier when the rest are near / But that my place against your heart has grown / Too dear to dream of when you are not here.” – Edith Nesbit
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“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don’t think it’s possible for you to miss me as much as I’m missing you right now” – Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“Depression / even when the most enchantingly tantalizing of seductresses / unfurled their umpteenth flavors of vibrant seduction / just abreast of my impoverished countenance.” – Nikhil Parekh
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“I guess that’s what saying good-bye is always like — like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you’re in the air, there’s nothing you can do but let go.” – Lauren Oliver
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“This is what it felt like to have a broken heart. It felt less like a cracking down the middle and more like she had swallowed it whole and it sat bruised and bleeding in the pit of her stomach.” – Wendy Wunder
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“Depression / even when a fathomless garden of rose bountifully bloomed outside my bedroom window / insatiably wafting the scent of timeless happiness into my penuriously sagging ears.” – Nikhil Parekh
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“I weep because my thoughts no more may roam / To meet, half-way, your longing thoughts of me / To turn with these and spread glad wings for home / For the dear haven where I fain would be.” – Edith Nesbit
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“I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don’t realize this until you’re getting sober but the reason why you’re depressed all the time is it’s the drugs that are depressing you.” – Steven Adler
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“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.” – Ned Vizzini
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“We must also look into our feelings of grief and loss. When we accept that everything is constantly changing, when we accept the inevitability that people and animals die, we can deal with pain in a much better fashion.” – Aaron Soltys
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“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
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“When you’re feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don’t want to take care of yourself – and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.” – Richard Simmons
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“Sometimes life will bring you down to your knees but don’t let it make you cold and don’t let it harden your heart – keep the faith – the sun will shine again and you’ll feel love fill up your heart and surround your soul again.” – Karen Kostyla
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“To be hurt, to feel lost, to be left out in the dark, to be kicked when you’re down, to feel like you’ve been pushed around, to be on the edge of breaking down, and no one’s there to save you. No, you don’t know what it’s like welcome to my life.”
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“You’ve been through a lot. I know it’s hard but I’m proud of who you are. You are strong, brave, bright and smart and you were given the gift of a beautiful heart. So keep going strong and try not to stray everything you’re praying for is on it’s way.”
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“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it — always.” – Mahatma Gandhi
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“Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?” – Haruki Murakami
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“She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there — like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.” – Katherine Paterson
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“No matter how bad things are right now. No matter how stuck you feel. No matter how many days you’ve spent crying and wishing things were different. Now matter how hopeless and depressed you feel. I promise you that you won’t feel this way forever. Keep going.” – Helen Wilson
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“Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.” – Brian Jacques
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“Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced… It is the absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very dead ended feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.” – J.K. Rowling
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“Dear You, I know you’ve been having a rough go at it lately. Things seem to be falling apart. You can’t seem to be falling apart. You can’t seem to do or get anything right anymore. You feel like a failure. Hang in there. You are going to be ok and everything will work out just as it is supposed to. The world is a better place because of you. You are amazing! I love you.”
Encouraging Quotes For When You’re Feeling Down
Words are powerful and some positive quotes can give you strength when you are really feeling down, depressed, and hopeless in life.
If you are facing such a situation where you are sad and down on a regular basis. then it’s time to cheer up with some uplifting quotes to make you happy and give encouragement to overcome the adversities in life.
- “Every cloud has a silver lining.”
- “After Tuesday, even the calendar goes WTF.”
- “Well apparently rock bottom has a basement.”
positive quotes for friends feeling down
- “When you feel down, look above, God is there.”
Inspirational Quotes When Feeling Down
- “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
Motivational Quotes When Feeling Down
- “When life knocks you down, rollover, and look at the stars.”
- “This too shall pass. It might pass like a kidney stone. But it will pass.”
- “The struggle you are in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.”
- “It’s okay not to be okay – as long as you are not giving up.” – Karen Salmansohn
- “Pick yourself up when you’re feeling down. No one else is likely to.” – Catherine DeVrye
Sarcastic Quotes When Feeling Down
- “Look for something positive in each day, even if some days you have to look a little harder.”
Funny Don’t Feel Down Quotes
- “One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you cannot change.”
- “Whenever you’re feeling down.. And I am not around let the sight of me be the reason you smile.” – Shahrukh Khan
- “Replace your grief with love and appreciation. That is truly what any who have departed from our lives would wish for us.” – Aaron Soltys
- “Respect yourself enough to say I deserve peace. Walk away from people or things that prevent you from attaining it.” – Jericho Silvers
- “Be kind to yourself throughout your journey. Let yourself feel everything you need to feel. Say the words you need to say. Don’t hide who you are. Follow your curiosities. Be bad at something new. Chase the life you really want. Go for it even if there is only a small chance of it working out. Don’t worry about how you think you should be, there is no time for that anymore. It’s time to be the real you.” – Nikki Banas
- “Do not forget who you are and where you come from. You are made of the brightest stars and the wildest oceans. You are made of the highest mountains and the tallest trees. You are made of magic and dreams, wishes and light. You have heroes, kings, queens, gods and goddesses flowing through your veins. You com from infinite possibilities and incredible odds. You are here for a reason.” – Nikki Banas, Walk The Earth
Feeling Low Quotes
- “Sleep just isn’t sleep anymore it’s an escape.”
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“It’s like you are screaming and no one can hear.”
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“Tears have no weight. But it carries heavy feelings.”
I Am Feeling Low Quotes
- “Tonight I can write the saddest lines.” – Pablo Neruda
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“Tears are words that need to be written.” – Paulo Coelho
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“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H. G. Wells
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“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
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“Don’t mind me. I’ll just sit here, crying over yesterday.” – P.M. Harrison
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“Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.” – Leonardo da Vinci
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“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.” – Dorothy Thompson
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“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.” – Margaret Mitchell
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“One thing you can’t hide — is when you’re crippled inside.” – John Lennon
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“There is a difference between giving up and knowing when you’ve had enough.”
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“Obstacles are put in your way to see if what you want is really worth fighting for.”
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“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” – Robin Williams
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“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” – Stephen Chbosky
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“Your thoughts are a steering wheel. Watch where you aim them.” – Karen Salmansohn
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“From where comes / so much of tears / `Sir, my last resort is / to cry for sea.’” – Devil Poet
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“Be selective with your battles. Sometimes peace is better than being right.” – Karen Salmansohn
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“Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.” – Nikolai V. Gogol
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“Encourage others today! So often the difference between success and failure is belief.” – Jon Gordon
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“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.” – Markus Zusak
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“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” – Jose N. Harris
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“I miss the way you sound / I miss to be around you / Just let me have another chance” – Nicolas Pablo Munoz
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“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
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“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” – Clive Barker
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“While fear and worry can weaken or harden you, love transforms you and the people and situations around you.” – Jon Gordon
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain
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“What are you buying and selling / Oh dear daughter of sadness / with open breasts / `Sir, I am a hawker of / sea water.’” – Devil Poet
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“Anxiety is the partner of depression. It accompanies half the cases of depression. Sometimes it triggers depression.” – Matt Haig
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“Weed and feed. Our minds are like a garden; each day you need to weed out the negativity and feed it positivity.” – Jon Gordon
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“You can be a depressive and be happy, just as you can be a sober alcoholic. It doesn’t have always have an obvious case.” – Matt Haig
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“The story you tell yourself defines the life you live and the actions you take. It’s important to tell yourself a positive story.” – Jon Gordon
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“Each day you only have a limited amount of time and energy. Don’t waste it stressing about things you cannot control.” – Karen Salmansohn
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“There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.” – Nicole Krauss
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“Don’t forget you’re a human. It’s okay to have a melt down. Just don’t unpack and live there. Cry it out and then refocus on where you are headed.”
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“Anxiety and depression are an interesting mix. In many ways they are opposite experiences, and yet mix them together and you don’t get a happy medium.” – Matt Haig
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“I can see that the sadness has returned. And it’s not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.” – David Levithan
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“Therefore sweet Sadness, leave me soon / Let thy bright sister, Joy, come more / For she can make ten lovely songs / While thou art making four.” – William Henry Davies
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“If you have a sad expression, it is much more likely you will make others feel this too. If you smile happily, you may have this effect on those around you as well.” – I. C. Robledo
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“Holy Ghost! dispel our sadness / Pierce the clouds of nature’s night / Come, Thou source of joy and gladness / Breathe Thy life, and spread Thy light.” – Augustus Montague Toplady
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“I’m the loneliest I’ve ever been tonight / I’m the loneliest I’ve ever been tonight / I’m inspired by your proposition, but I don’t trust my intuition / I’m the loneliest I’ve ever been tonight” – Sonny Moore
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“You don’t have to wait to feel positive enough for a smile to happen. You can generate a positive feeling by smiling. Your smile can be the source of your positivity, not the result of it. Smile more today.” – Jon Gordon
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“The symptoms of clinical depression include excessive crying or sadness, extreme mood swings, erratic behavior, loss of interest in friends, loved ones, or any type of pleasure, loss of appetite, weight gain or loss, anger, irritability, fatigue.” – Pat Love
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