Depressing Quotes

500 Depressing quotes by 390 unique authors

When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I… — Unknown Author
The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials… — Nathan Myhrvold
I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids. — Dolly Parton
The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth… — Harold Prince
It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print. — Lou Reed
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. — Jim Rohn
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. — Henry Rollins
Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that… — Veronica Roth
Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life. — Arthur Rubinstein
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. — Donald Rumsfeld
Depression is rage spread thin. — George Santayana
My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob.… — Dan Savage
If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy. — Elliott Smith
You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun. — David Spade
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 confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no… — Soren Kierkegaard

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