Quotes About Sadness and Depression

“Cherish your tears and their reasons, they will be the light of your smile, your inner peace and reconciliation.

“If you cry about yourself, if you are not happy with yourself, it means He is still close to you.

“One who does not suffer from sorrow should fear that he could not be from the people of Jannah because Allāh (swt) says about the believers when they enter into Jannah: “Praise to Allah, who has removed from us [all] sorrow. Indeed, our Lord is Forgiving and Appreciative.” (35:34)

Ibrahim at-Taymee

“It isn't a coincidence that prayer was commanded right after the year of sadness. The prayer was the greatest comfort.

Yasmin Mogahed

“It is not true that if we had true faith we would not be sad. Prophets (peace be upon them) and righteous people experienced a great deal of sadness. The Quran is full of stories in which the central theme is sadness. Sadness is a reality of life. The Quran is not there to eliminate sadness, but to navigate it. Sadness is one of the tests of life, just as happiness, and anger are tests.

Nouman Ali Khan

“I have found that when I’m down, of all the athkar and supplications out there, these words from the duaa of Ta’if, have the most power over my heart: “I seek refuge in the light of Your Face by which all darkness is dispelled and every matter of this world and the next is set right.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The whole world from its beginning until its end is not worth an hour of sadness, so what about the sadness of a whole life.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Sadness is the heart telling you to find Allah. Depression is you not listening to your heart. Comfort is remembering Allah is always there.

Yahya Adel Ibrahim

“This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

Rumi

“But listen to me. For one moment quit being so sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms all around you.

Rumi

“The clouds must weep before the meadow smiles.

Rumi

“What if Your blessings come through raindrops, what if Your healing comes through tears, what if 1000 sleepless nights are what it takes to know You are near?

Yasmin Mogahed

“One of the best cures for depression/sadness is helping someone in need.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Don't be sad! Because God sends the hope in the most desperate moments. Don't forget; the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.

Rumi

“I think sometimes the heart holds on to sadness because it would rather feel something than be empty.

Yasmin Mogahed

“After years of falling into the same pattern of disappointments and heartbreak, I finally began to realize something profound. I had always thought that love of dunya meant being attached to material things. And I was not attached to material things. I was attached to people. I was attached to moments. I was attached to emotions. So I thought that the love of dunya just did not apply to me. What I didn’t realize was that people, moments, emotions are all a part of dunya. What I didn’t realize is that all the pain I had experienced in life was due to one thing, and one thing only: love of dunya.

Yasmin Mogahed

“And pain is a pointer to our attachments. That which makes us cry, that which causes us most pain is where our false attachments lie. And it is those things which we are attached to as we should only be attached to Allah which become barriers on our path to God. But the pain itself is what makes the false attachment evident. The pain creates a condition in our life that we seek to change, and if there is anything about our condition that we don’t like, there is a divine formula to change it. God says: “Verily never will God change the condition of a people until they change what is within themselves.” (Qur’an, 13:11)

Yasmin Mogahed

“All of this: The sadness, accidents, smiles, peace, pain, love, loss, and sacrifice: it’s not for nothing. It is not without purpose.

Yasmin Mogahed

“You can either sit down and be depressed by the darkness of the night, or stand up and appreciate the beauty of the stars.

Yasir Qadhi

“When I am feeling down, two things cheer me up: lengthening my prostration, & playing with my children. I thank Allah for Islam and family!

Yasir Qadhi

“Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life—but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?

Yasir Qadhi