From time to time, we all get a little down, maybe even a little depressed. Feeling down from is a normal part of life, but it’s important to remember that feelings of helplessness and hopelessness are symptoms of depression, not the reality of your situation. Inspirational feeling down quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
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Famous Feeling Down Quotes
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
Write your sad times in sand, write your good times in stone. – George Bernard Shaw
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. – C.S. Lewis
When youre feeling down just close your eyes, and the magic I brought back your side. – Adele
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
I am thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn’t have come across my strength. – Alex Elle
Overthinking ruins you. It ruins the situation. Twists things around. Makes you worry. Just makes everything worse that it actually is. – Karen Salmansohn
It’s an honor and blessing to be able to open your eyes after a night’s sleep. Give thanks every morning.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. – Maya Angelou
Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard. – David Levithan
Even when you are feeling down, you have to live your life positively, that way, happy days and happy feelings will come to you some day. – Kim Hyun-joong
Owning your story is the bravest thing you’ll ever do. – Brené Brown
Never be ashamed of a scar. It means you were stronger than whatever tried to hurt you.
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
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. – Nicholas Sparks
Once you choose hope, anything is possible. – Christopher Reeve
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
Sometimes sitting and doing nothing is the best something you can do. – Karen Salmansohn
Be selective with your battles. Sometimes peace is better than being right.
Until you’re broken you don’t know what you’re made of. It gives you the ability to build yourself all over again, but stronger than ever… – Melissa Molomo
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. – Saadi
If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. – Fred Rogers
There is a difference between giving up and knowing when you’ve had enough.
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
Whenever you’re feeling down..And I am not around let the sight of me be the reason you smile. – Shahrukh Khan
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
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. – Buddha
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
The tragedy is not failing. It’s not trying. – Karen Salmansohn
Your thoughts are a steering wheel. Watch where you aim them. – Karen Salmansohn
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
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. – Confucius
It feels like every other part of my body is broken too. – Missy Altijd
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
The most beautiful people I’ve known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. – Les Misérables
When you are feeling down, look at the skies. You are not always alone. – EunB
Weed and feed. Our minds are like a garden; each day you need to weed out the negativity and feed it positivity. – Jon Gordon
Quick reminder: Slow down! Enjoy the moments in your day. These moments are your life! – Karen Salmansohn
You have it within you to rise above whatever is bringing you down. – Karen Salmansohn
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. – Khalil Gibran
You are more powerful than your circumstances. They don’t define you. You do. – Jon Gordon
Each day you only have a limited amount of time and energy. Don’t waste it stressing about things you cannot control. – Karen Salmansohn
As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better. – Dr. Steve Maraboli
When someone you love dies, you don’t lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time. – Simon Birch
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. – H. G. Wells
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
Respect yourself enough to say ‘I deserve peace’ and walk away from people or things that prevent you from attaining it. – Jericho Silvers
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
While fear and worry can weaken or harden you, love transforms you and the people and situations around you. – Jon Gordon
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
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
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
You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one. – Michael McMillan
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
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
It’s okay not to be okay – as long as you are not giving up. – Karen Salmansohn
Night is beautiful when you are happy–comforting when you are in grief–terrible when you are lonely and unhappy. – L.M. Montgomery
The little things. The little moments? They aren’t so little.
Everyday may not be good, but there is some good in every day. – Alice Morse Earle
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
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
Sometimes you’ve got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding. – Christopher Barzak
I think I’m afraid to be happy because whenever I get too happy, something bad always happens. – Charles Schulz
Regrets are the tears of choices not made, and of good deeds left undone. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pick yourself up when you’re feeling down. No one else is likely to. – Catherine DeVrye
Embrace your grief and your sadness felt towards those that have passed and remember them with love. – Aaron Soltys
One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you cannot change.
It’s raining in my heart like it’s raining in the city. What is this sadness that pierces my heart? – Sonya Sones
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses. – George Eliot
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
Don’t mind me. I’ll just sit here, crying over yesterday. – P.M. Harrison
If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill
Replace your grief with love and appreciation. That is truly what any who have departed from our lives would wish for us. – Aaron Soltys
It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. – Henry Rollins
Stop focusing on how stressed you are and remember how blessed you are.
Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them! – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing. – Dorothy Thompson
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
Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it. – Buddha
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
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
You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it. – Robin Williams
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody. – Stephen Chbosky
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. – Leonardo da Vinci
