When scouring the internet for “feeling low quotes,” the majority made me want to throw up.
Like this quote, “I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.” This doesn’t make me feel better. It makes me want to cry too.
I understand that reading these quotes might help you feel less alone in your struggle. I also like knowing that other people have gone through low periods and have overcome them. But you don’t want to feel worse than you already do.
The art of consumption is knowing what to consume. If you’re going through a tough time, you should be reading quotes that make you feel less down and more inspired.
Read quotes that make you smile again! I can guarantee that the quotes about feeling low I’ve found will do just that!
83 Feeling Low Quotes
“You are not your feelings. You just experience them. Anger, sadness, hate, depression, fear. This is the rain you walk in. But you don’t become the rain. You know the rain will pass. You walk on. And you remember the soft glow of the sun that will come again.” Matt Haig
2. “Everyone experiences a version of anxiety or worry in their lives, and maybe we go through it in a different or more intense way for longer periods of time, but there’s nothing wrong with you.” Emma Stone
3. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” Vince Lombardi
4. “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” Christopher Robin
5. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” Henry Ford
6. “Once you choose hope, anything is possible.” Christopher Reeve
7. “Depression, suffering, and anger are all part of being human.” Janet Fitch
8. “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” John Green
9. “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.” Albert Camus
10. “When you’re feeling down, did you know that you can change it in an instant? Put on a beautiful piece of music or start singing – that’ll change your emotion.” Bob Proctor
11. “Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.” Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
12. “Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.” Faraaz Kazi
13. “I learned how to be happy because I know what unhappiness felt like.” Lilly Singh
14. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” Jonathan Safran Foer
15. “The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.” Juliette Lewis
16. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” Confucius
17. “Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.” Paulo Coelho
18. “Make peace with your broken pieces.” r.h. Sin
19. “When it is darkest, we can see the stars.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. “If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions.” Katherine Hepburn
21. “Sad hurts, but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel.” J.K. Rowling
22. “The more we forgive, forget and let go, the less defined by our past we are.” Unknown
23. “Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better.” Walt Disney
24. “Sometimes, life will kick you around, but sooner or later, you realize you’re not just a survivor. You’re a warrior, and you’re stronger than anything life throws your way.” Brooke Davis
25. “You aren’t the things that haunt you. You aren’t the pain you feel. You aren’t defective or broken. You’re human, you’re doing the best you can, and you have so much to offer the world than the demons you’re fighting.” Daniell Koepke
26. “You are strong enough to face it all, even if it doesn’t feel like it right now.” Unknown
27. “Keep searching for the colors when everything turns grey.” Christy Ann Martine
28. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” Helen Keller
29. “Your pain is an opportunity for you to learn about yourself.” Gary Zukav
30. “Life is way too short to spend it at war with yourself.” Unknown
31. “I won’t let my pain turn my heart into something ugly. I will show you that surviving can be beautiful.” Christy Ann Martine
32. “Somewhere, there is a past you overflowing with so much pride looking at how far you’ve come.” Unknown
33. “You have to die a few times before you can really live.” Charles Bukowski
34. “You give the world such a great gift by being alive. Your time to leave this world will one day come, don’t cut life short.” Unknown
35. “Sometimes it takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to value presence.” Unknown
36. “It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.” Napoleon Hill
37. “If you’re feeling low, don’t despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.” Dolly Parton
38. “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
39. “Whenever you’re feeling down…And I am not around let the sight of me be the reason you smile.” Shah Rukh Khan
40. “Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time.” Eckhart Tolle
41. “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
42. “Sometimes you have to let everything go – purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything – whatever is bringing you down – get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.” Tina Turner
43. “Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb…just something to feel.” Marianne Williamson
44. “When you are feeling down, look at the skies. You are not always alone.” EunB
45. “There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.” Nicholas Sparks
46. “The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you, and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.” Queen Elizabeth II
47. “Never underestimate the Power of the Mind. Persist in creating new thoughts to prevent falling back into negative patterns. It is an ongoing struggle, and you have to commit to winning if you are to succeed.” Bob Proctor
48. “He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.” William Samuel Johnson
49. “Overthinking ruins you. It ruins the situation. Twists things around. Makes you worry. Just makes everything worse than it actually is.” Karen Salmansohn
50. “I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.” Joshua Graham
51. “If you were able to believe in Santa Claus for like 8 years, you can believe in yourself for like 5 minutes.” Unknown
52. “Owning your story is the bravest thing you’ll ever do.” Brené Brown
53. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” Oprah Winfrey
54. “You are more powerful than your circumstances. They don’t define you. You do.” Jon Gordon
55. “Breathe, my friend, this is just a chapter, not your whole life story.” Unknown
56. “You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have the right to be here.” Max Ehrmann
57. “I am thankful for my struggle because, without it, I wouldn’t have come across my strength.” Alex Elle
58. “Every day may not be good, but there is some good in every day.” Alice Morse Earle
59. “Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.” Unknown
60. “Be selective with your battles. Sometimes peace is better than being right.” Unknown
61. “Stop focusing on how stressed you are and remember how blessed you are.” Anonymous
62. “Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.” Rumi
63. “Sometimes sitting and doing nothing is the best something you can do.” Karen Salmansohn
64. “The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.”Jonathan Lockwood Huie
65. “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
66. “We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear, and sadness, and to me, they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement, and inspiration.” Alanis Morrisette
67. “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
68. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” C.S. Lewis
69. “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
70. “The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” Carl Jung
71. “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
72. “One has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.” Paulo Coelho
73. “Even when you’re feeling down, don’t let yourself down by letting your dream die.” Gift Gugu Mona
74. “I would say what others have said: It gets better. One day, you’ll find your tribe. You just have to trust that people are out there waiting to love you and celebrate you for who you are. In the meantime, the reality is you might have to be your own tribe. You might have to be your own best friend. That’s not something they’re going to teach you in school. So start the work of loving yourself.” Wentworth Miller
75. “My dark days made me stronger. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.” Emery Lord
76. “Pick yourself up when you’re feeling down. No one else is likely to.” Catherine DeVrye
77. “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.” Albus Dumbledore
78. “I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.” Dwayne Johnson
79. “Part of my identity is saying no to things I don’t want to do… I check in with myself throughout the day, and I say, ‘Do I really want to do this?’ and if the answer is no, then I don’t do it. And you shouldn’t either.” Lady Gaga
80. “Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them.” Joubert Botha
81. “Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.” Madeleine L’Engle
82. “Surprise yourself every day with your own courage.” Denholm Elliott
83. “Life is like a piano; the white keys represent happiness, and the black show sadness. But as you go through life’s journey, remember that the black keys also create music.” Ehssan
Final Thoughts
I hope these feeling low quotes helped you feel better about your life. If they did, leave me a comment!
Remember, whatever you’re going through, it will pass. Good times don’t last forever, but neither do the bad times. Stay strong and wait for the tides to turn because they will.
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