Once the holiday season has come and gone, January can be a little rough. After all, there are no more gifts to open — just envelopes filled with bills from Santa’s many deliveries. And those Christmas cookies and turkey legs? Well, they may have left your jeans feeling a bit more snug than they were last September.
If that’s not enough, it’s also Dry January, which means wine isn’t an option. Not to mention all the well-intended New Year’s resolutions you made at midnight that are turning out to be a whole lot harder to keep than you thought.
It’s enough to make anyone feel blue, which is why we’ve collected our favorite Blue Monday quotes and messages in honor of Monday, Jan. 20. These encouraging and meaningful words are intended to reassure you that you’re not alone in feeling that mid-January funk.
In fact, so many people are down in the dumps this time year that in 2004, a United Kingdom-based travel company coined the phrase “Blue Monday” to describe the winter gloom that sets in post-holiday once bills arrive and resolutions have been kicked to the curb.
-Use one of these Blue Monday quotes as an Instagram caption, social media post or simply to remind yourself that, like you, most everyone hates both Mondays and the month of January.
Read on and remember that Tuesday is only a day away.
- “So. Monday. We meet again. We will never be friends — but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more-positive partnership.” ― Julio-Alexi Genao
- “What a cold and rainy day, where on earth is the sun hid away?” — 10,000 Maniacs, “Like the Weather”
- “A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.” — Bruce Lee
- “Don’t let the good days get to your head, and don’t let the bad days get to your heart.” — Caroline Ghosn
- “There is no Monday which will not give its place to Tuesday.” — Anton Chekhov
- “Every day brings new choices.” — Martha Beck
- “Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.” — Samuel Smiles
- “I’m not okay, but it’s all gonna be alright. It’s not okay, but we’re all gonna be alright.” — Jelly Roll, “I Am Not Okay”
- “You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is.” — Aly Raisman
- “Monday could not have arrived on a worse day. It could have been polite and waited until Tuesday or even Wednesday.” — Michael Scott Gallegos
- “Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.” — Christopher Morley
- “We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.” — Orson Welles
- “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” — Maria Robinson
- “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” — Will Rogers
- “Bad days come in degrees. They are not all equally bad. And the really bad ones, though horrible to live through, are useful for later.” — Matt Haig, “Reasons to Stay Alive”
- “Saturday and Sunday’s Fun to sport around. But no use denying Monday’ll get you down.” — Langston Hughes
- “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.” — Sylvia Plath, “The Bell Jar”
- “What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Essays and Addresses”
- “Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” ― Jack Layton
- “There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.” — Amanda Gorman
- “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn
- “Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen.” ― Dr. Sukhraj Dhillon
- “We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.” — Joseph Campbell
- “Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.” — Mark Twain
- “Bad days don’t always stay. Good times are ahead.” ― Ross Barkley
- “I’ve always hated Mondays, the whole lot of them. Too much whiplash, snapping the tired masses to attention.” ― Jonathan Hull, “Losing Julia”
- “Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke ‘em down to nothing.” ― Tom Waits, “Big Time”
- “Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.” ― Samuel Johnson
- “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul ― and sings the tunes without the words ― and never stops at all.” ― Emily Dickinson
- “Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.” ― Fred Rogers
