Quotes From Literature That Might Help You Cope With Your Depression

Sometimes all you need is to read some inspiring words to help you cope with your troubles. Here is a great collection curated by the Hubbelt review team which can help ease your mind and provide relief from feelings of depression.

"Make not your thoughts your prisons."

―William Shakespeare

"If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying."

—Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

"I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light."

—Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

"We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen."

—D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

"In some mysterious way it became clear to him that there was no darkness, only the possibility of losing sight of a light that shone eternally."

—Malcolm Muggeridge, Conversion: The Spiritual Journey of a Twentieth Century Pilgrim

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am, I am, I am."

—Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"Keep walking. If I look back I am lost."

—George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

"I will not say do not weep, for not all tears are an evil."

—J.R.R. Tolkien, Return of the King

"Keep passing the open windows."

―John Irving, Hotel New Hampshire

"There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can't, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having."

―Sir Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

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