Depressing Quotes

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda.

A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.

Dealing with ads is depressing. You don’t make anyone’s life better by making advertisements work better.

International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?

There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.

Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.

I've suffered from pretty dark depressing times, and it's probably - not probably - it is the reason why I chose to lead a healthy lifestyle.

Those who constantly try to impress others will quickly depress themselves.

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.

I don't want to make a depressing movie. I want it to allow us to ask some questions and stay asking those questions. How predetermined are our lives? It's something I don't have the answer to.

There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat.

I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

It was that depressing time in the early morning where the only people about were milkmen, police officers- and time travellers.

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

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 is, I believe in family values.

Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?'

Real humility does not depress you, but allows you to call intensely and brings us closer to Krishna.

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 up if you don't.

Have you ever Googled yourself? I did, most depressing thing ever. People have websites hoping I die at 38.

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.

Real Understanding manifests itself as spontaneous natural and simple action, free of the depressing process of choice, pure without indecisions of any type.

To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.

In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

When we are able to receive life's challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and depressing.

I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?

Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people and depressing elephants

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

Because the oils work in a different way from antibiotics, they do not have the usual side effects, and they tend to stimulate the immune system instead of depressing it.

I like talking about subjects that aren't funny in the first place and making them funny. So anything down and depressing is something I'll talk about.

Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.

Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in such a way as to depress and to discourage other people.