Depressing Quotes

500 Depressing quotes by 390 unique authors

With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of achievers. I compared… — Jared Diamond
Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What… — Henri Nouwen
Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress… — Bruno Dumont
I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai if… — Mary Leakey
Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity. — Gerald Vann
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend,… — Joseph Addison
Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing. — V. S. Pritchett
There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you… — Edward Frederic Benson
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of… — Malcolm De Chazal
I knew you could find a certain relief in begging God, it had helped me, but on the other hand, God never answered directly and… — Darcey Steinke
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged… — B. C. Forbes
It depresses me when people expect me to be like the characters I play on film. I'm not some whiny loser punk, I'm a man's… — Zach Braff
Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions… — Molly Ivins
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him. — H. L. Mencken
We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those… — Albert Einstein
We either misdirect or depress great amounts of energy in order to keep ourselves from feeling pain, including what we feel in the moment and… — Barbara Brennan
It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit… — Hannah Arendt
Unfortunately, I think I'm going to be typecast in Hollywood as the kid who can cry. I don't like putting audiences through those emotional ups… — Dana Hill
I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening.… — Amy Sedaris
A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. Remember that you are a human… — Rex Harrison
I only allow that which is good into my life. No one can depress you. No one can make you anxious. No one can hurt… — Wayne Dyer
Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity. — Robert Evans
Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear. — Maria Edgeworth
What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women. The capitalists speculate… — Clara Zetkin
It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or so, three stood… — John Grant

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