In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material. — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
Without humor, a sports fan is a religious fanatic. Without humor, a newscast is a terrible, depressing, unpalatable thing. — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
There's a certain kind of neurological makeup that goes along with being a writer, and having been in the room with a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Living with hope is like rubbing up against a cheese grater. It keeps taking slices off you until there's so little left… — Catherine Austen Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that I made a film to make young people feel great, not such a simple message, but I really… — Lukas Moodysson Copy Share Image
I think comedy allows people to accept the more difficult parts of history. And history, if it's presented wrong, is just very… — James McBride Copy Share Image
I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last 50 years, and most of it is depressing,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say:… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
When you're out there in America, meeting with regular people, it's a pretty mellow, relaxed, kind-hearted country. The direction from the top,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Scars on my hips, scars on my thighs, eyes full of hurt, and a mouth full of lies — SangFroid Stalker Copy Share Image
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
I think it would be exhausting and depressing, to write, to watch and to live, if it was just focused on drama.… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late. — William Mather Lewis Copy Share Image
A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his… — S. R. Ranganathan Copy Share Image
When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control. — William Glasser Copy Share Image
“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image