What is the difference between sadness and depression?

The basic difference is that sadness can go away . but depression sticks with you. You feel sad when for example something bad happens. You lost your journal ,you accidentally tear you favourite shirt. You can get over your sadness by simply buying a new journal or a new shirt . on the other hand depression is a black hole . it sucks you in and there is no way out. It mostly occurs to people due to the emptiness ,blankness,nothingness blackness of their future .

Sadness is a feeling of low mood and sympathy for ones self. You might want to cry or otherwise have some sort of catharsis to make yourself feel better. Depression isn't that as simple as that in my opinion. With deprresions, things might feel empty. Previously enjoyable activities suddenly feel like a chore. Food tastes of nothing and you might not want to eat. You might lose sleep, or conversly want to sleep forever. Lethargy takes over and you want to do nothing at all.

Sadness is part of human experience. When you are depressed, you loose part of the normal human experience: usually people are unable to experience good things as fun / comforting / amusing.

Being sad for to long makes you depressed.but sadness is like cold but depression is like frost bite..

Sadness is where you are sad for one or two days, depression is where your continuously depressed all the time

Sadness doesn't last very long. It's natural for everyone to feel sad from time to time or feel sadness for a period of time after the loss of a family member or a break up or something else that happened in one's life which is serious and difficult, but the sadness eventually fades away. However, if the sadness stays and you keep feeling a deep level of sorrow and misery and perhaps anger and you have a low self-esteem or self-doubt or don't see a positive life ahead of you and can't manage to get yourself out of the dark hole, then it's become something much larger and stronger than sadness. Sadness is natural and okay. But depression is dangerous. And it's heartbreaking and if you haven't experienced depression, then you almost can't imagine how terrible it is.

Sadness occurs once in a while and can be solved through talking to someone depression is when you are constantly upset sometimes even you don't know why.

Sadness, to me, is being upset over a certain reason or two - you are aware of what you are being upset over. Depression, this may occur unexpectedly and the reason is usually unknown, even to whoever is experiencing it. Whilst sadness could be recovered from in a short while, depression may take a while to move on from, and we may find difficulty in doing so. Depression is much more worse than sadness.

Sadness is like a temporany emotion, depression is a chronic state of underestimation and sadness; the last one it's harder to fight against.

The difference between sadness and depression is that saddness only lasts for a little while and depression lasts for a long time untill you het over it.