121 Mental Health Quotes to Help You Feel Less Alone

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Talking about mental health is the first step towards dealing with it, and thankfully more and more people are being open and honest about theirs. Politicians, celebrities, musicians, and actors are all bringing mental health to the fore, reminding us that we are not alone in our struggles.

It can be hard to voice what we’re feeling sometimes, but these mental health quotes have put into words what many of us have been struggling to say. Thought-provoking and poignant, these quotes will make you see that you’re not alone, and will encourage you to keep going and move forward, taking each day as it comes.

The world is waking up to the fact that mental health is just as important as physical health, and by reading what other people have shared, you will find solace in the fact that you’re in very good company. Bringing sunshine into even the darkest of days, these words will make you see that it’s ok not to be ok, while also showing you a way through to the other side.

If you’re looking for more quotes for good mental health, take a look at these quotes on never giving up, these depression quotes and these grief quotes (if you’re suffering from a loss).

Mental Health Quotes

“If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken.” – Selena Gomez

“I understand your pain. Trust me, I do. I’ve seen people go from the darkest moments in their lives to living a happy, fulfilling life. You can do it too. I believe in you. You are not a burden. You will NEVER BE a burden.” – Sophie Turner

“My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.” – Emery Lord

“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

“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.” – Glenn Close

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“..balancing time you spend with or without people is crucial for mental health.” – Amy E. Spiegel

“Don’t take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

“Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.” – Mariska Hargitay

“In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.” – Abraham Maslow

“Hope, hope, hope. It has to be there. Rob the person of hope, and there won’t be any recovery.” – Dan Fisher

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“What people never understand is that depression isn’t about the outside; it’s about the inside.” – Jasmine Warga

“You are so brave and quiet, I forget you are suffering.” – Ernest Hemingway

“It’s about the determination to keep walking forward.” – Matt Haig

“Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.” – Pastor Rick Warren

“This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.” – Cammie McGovern

“The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.” – Tiffany Madison

“Do not just slay your demons; dissect them and find what they’ve been feeding on.” – Anonymous

“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Amy March

“Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.” – Bill Clinton

“Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.” – Pete Earley

“We are not our trauma. We are not our brain chemistry. That’s part of who we are, but we’re so much more than that.” – Sam J. Miller

“Anyone can be affected, despite their level of success or their place on the food chain. In fact, there is a good chance you know someone who is struggling with it since nearly 20% of American adults face some form of mental illness in their lifetime. So why aren’t we talking about it?” – Kristen Bell

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” – Carl Jung

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds” – Bob Marley

“Living with anxiety, turning up, and doing stuff with anxiety takes a strength most people will never know.” – Matt Haig

“Mental health problems don’t define who you are. They are something you experience. You walk in the rain and you feel the rain, but, importantly, YOU ARE NOT THE RAIN.” – Matt Haig

“Regardless of where you are on the mental health spectrum, it is important to remember that, if you have a problem, with the right support and treatment you can and will get better.” – Shaun Davies And Andrew Kinder

“The quickest way to end up feeling anger all the time is to repress it and fight against it.” – Jessica Moore

“You are stronger than you know. In the depths of despair, you find your true strength within.” – Asad Meah

“There is a major emphasis on positive versus negative thoughts in dealing with harmful stress and mental health in general. Realistic thoughts should perhaps be the goal.” – Dr Harry Barry

“You don’t need to find a lesson in your trauma.” – Jordan Pickell, MCP RCC

“It’s okay to not be okay – it means that your mind is trying to heal itself.” – Abhijit Naskar

“Mental health…is not a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.” – Noam Shpancer

“The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not.” – Elyn R. Saks

“I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s there to be ashamed of? I went through a really tough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.” – J. K. Rowling

“I’m actually taking medication that seems to be pretty good. It’s not making me feel too tired or sluggish or anything like that. Finding the proper balance is what is most important,” – Mariah Carey

“Don’t let your struggle become your identity.” – Unknown

“We take care of our dental health. We don’t take care of our mental health … I think the solution to making this world better is if we would just be healthy mentally.” – Howie Mandel

“Mental space is just another way of saying available energy. If you are fully charged, you’re more patient, willing, agile, cooperative, and available to change your mind and approach as the situation requires.” – Rajshree Patel

“We now know that close friendships and affectionate relationships play a huge role in our mental health and well-being and influence how our bodies work.” – Paul Gilbert

“Just because no one else can heal or do your inner work for you doesn’t mean you can, should, or need to do it alone.” – Lisa Olivera

“Humanity is so weird. If we’re not laughing, we’re crying or running for our lives because monsters are trying to eat us. And they don’t even have to be real monsters. They could be the ones we make up in our heads. Don’t you think that’s weird?” – T.J. Klune

“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.” – Juliette Lewis

“Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that the better for us all.” – Erik Erikson

“One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.” – Linda Poindexter

“My dark days made me stronger. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.” – Emery Lord

“The mind can be like a small child who just needs reassurance that things will be dealt with and looked after. That’s all it needs to let go of these mental worries.” – Barry McDonagh

“It was too heavy a burden to carry and I simply couldn’t do that anymore. I sought and received treatment, I put positive people around me and I got back to doing what I love – writing songs and making music.” – Mariah Carey

“There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts.” – Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“Mental health is an important topic, and should be discussed more frequently. It’s not attention seeking.” – Brien Blatt

“I found that with depression, one of the most important things you can realize is that you’re not alone. You’re not the first to go through it, you’re not gonna be the last to go through it.” – Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

“The best thing you could do is master the chaos in you. You are not thrown into the fire, you are the fire.” – Mama Indigo

“It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.” – Aisha Mirza

“And every person can benefit from talking to somebody. I’m the most anti-medication person, but some people need medicine, and there was a time where I needed some too.” – Miley Cyrus

“Running with a partner, or a friend, or just meeting people out and about can be a balm to the isolation that mental-health problems create.” – Bella Mackie

“If we start being honest about our pain, our anger, and our shortcomings instead of pretending they don’t exist, then maybe we’ll leave the world a better place than we found it.” – Russell Wilson

“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

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.” – Charles Bukowski

“The only journey is the journey within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

“Your own mental health battles or those of others can make you lose sight of it, but hope is truly the one thing that will keep you going through some of the harder times.” – Frankie Bridge

“They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.” – Nathaniel Lee

“I’m struggling just to get through the days. I think a lot of people are.” – Justin Bieber

“‘Positive vibes only’ isn’t a thing. Humans have a wide range of emotions and that’s OK.” – Molly Bahr, LMHC

“When anxiety is in balance, it helps us to think ahead to the future, make plans, and get organized.” – Jessica Moore

“You will emerge from this nightmare like the powerful, beautiful, resilient person that you are. It can be hard to remember this when you feel like a shell of the person you once were. But trust me: You are capable of overcoming so much more than you think.” – Elite Daily

“Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.” – Lemony Snicket

“There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.” – Matt Haig

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.” – Albus Dumbledore

“I’ve run my whole life – for more than exercise, for mental health.” – Wendelin Van Draanen

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau

“You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.” – Flannery O’Connor

“Mental health is something that we all need to talk about, and we need to take the stigma away from it. So let’s raise awareness. Let’s let everybody know it’s OK to have a mental illness and addiction problem.” – Demi Lovato

“We would probably also feel less ashamed or afraid to talk about mental health issues if we knew more certainly where they came from, or what caused them.” – Edward Bullmore

“Hope is a powerful thing. Some say it’s a different breed of magic altogether.” – Stephanie Garber

“I do not sleep because I am not only afraid of the monsters at my door, but also of the monsters my own mind can conjure. The ones that live within.” – Samantha Shannon

“Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.” – Nathaniel Branden

“You have survived everything you have been through, and you will survive this too.” – Matt Haig

“You don’t start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.” – Laura Davis

“It doesn’t have to take over your life, it doesn’t have to define you as a person, it’s just important that you ask for help. It’s not a sign of weakness.” – Demi Lovato

“Depression… is what your suffering actually yours?” – Susanna Mittermaier

“If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay.” – Stephen Levine

“True suffering is being trapped in your own head.” – Adam Snowflake

“About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.” – C.G. Jung

“What I love about therapy is that they’ll tell you what your blind spots are. Although that’s uncomfortable and painful, it gives you something to work with.” – Pink

“I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me.” – John Green

“Being vulnerable is actually a strength and not a weakness — that’s why more and more mental health is such an important thing to talk about. It’s the same as being physically sick. And when you keep all those things inside, when you bottle them up, it makes you ill.” – Cara Delevingne

“Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them.” – Joubert Botha

“Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.” – Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“To think too much is a disease.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it’s critical to wellbeing.” – Diane Abbott

“What does your anxiety do? It does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but it empties today of its strength. It does not make you escape the evil; it makes you unfit to cope with it if it comes.” – Raymond L. Cramer

“Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.” – Louise Hart

“The experience I have had is that once you start talking about [experiencing a mental health struggle], you realize that actually you’re part of quite a big club.” – Prince Harry

“Take a deep breath to remember you are the child who lived through survival mode and the empowered adult who chose their healing.” – Dr. Nicole LePera

“It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.” – Amy Poehler

“Mental health is messy and chaotic but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t keep trying to make sense of it.” – Nathan Filer

“Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.” – Adam Ant

“Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.” – Dale Carnegie

“Mental health sufferers are not crazy. They have special insight. You better recognize that setting aside your interest people to stay asleep and show empathy towards God’s imperfect creations, otherwise the world has no meaning to exist.” – Maria Karvouni

“There’s not shame in dealing with these things. There’s no shame in having to fight everyday.” – Jared Padalecki

“No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that all the time about people with mental illness.” – Elyn R. Saks

“Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There’s only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.” – Tori Spelling

“I think that we’re all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better — and maybe not all that much better after all.” – Stephen King

“I sometimes feel like my head is a computer with too many windows open.” – Matt Haig

“Being able to be your true self is one of the strongest components of good mental health.” – Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy

“Some seek the comfort of their therapist’s office, others head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.” – Dean Karnazes

“It can be a good thing, too, to learn to sit in your own weirdness.” – Sarah Wilson

“At our lowest we find the solid ground of our foundation. And we can build ourselves anew.” – Matt Haig

“Experts believe that a reduction of mental and physical stress can help people focus and organize their thoughts in an efficient manner. In this, yoga excels.” – Susan Hollister

“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” – Ovid

“I let it get to me that day. I wasn’t in a good place. And unfortunately I was going through a rough time and I let it get to me a little bit too much. That was it.” – Liam Payne

“There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.” – Matt Haig

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Through the vehicle of our emotions, our mind, body, and spirit are sending signals that something has to shift.” – Randy Taran

“It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative–which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.” – Sylvia Plath

“But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness.” – Robert Uttaro

“I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.” – Rosamund Lupton

“If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around.” – Martin H. Fischer