Depressing Quotes

500 Depressing quotes by 390 unique authors

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. — Gertrude Stein
Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks… — James Surowiecki
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. — Mother Teresa
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're… — Orson Welles
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought. — Olivia Wilde
I didn't much like being in Parliament physically. I found it a bit depressing. It's very dark and heavy. I like being out and about. — Geoff Mulgan
To perceive is to suffer. — Aristotle
Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing… — Tony Kushner
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidantâ€¦ My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known â€” no… — Soren Kierkegaard
I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an… — H. L. Mencken
Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How… — Oscar Wilde
A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle. — Oscar Wilde
The United States tried, by depressing the clutch of diplomacy and downshifting the gearshift lever of rhetoric, to remain neutral, but it became increasingly obvious… — Dave Barry
When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be. — Arthur C. Clarke
If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so… — Martha Gellhorn
i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people — Marge Piercy
I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients. — Oscar Levant
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. — Bertrand Russell

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