Depressing Quotes

I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like the song. It's a love song - kind of - but it's kind of depressing and dark.

I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can be personally depressing.

We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.

I guess I have a gift for expressing pedestrian tastes. In a way, it's kind of depressing.

I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco.

You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.

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 that was always depressing.

You totally need to watch the news." "Can't." "Why?" "It's too depressing." "Right, because hanging with dead people isn't.

One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.

The revival of consumers saving their money for retirement - rather than expecting their homes to provide the cushion - added with 'move down' buyers will depress real-estate prices.

Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.

For me, I'm a fan of really dark, depressing stuff. Even something like The Wire, which can be hugely depressing and really serious, the bits I always remember are the jokes, you know?

For me, I'm a fan of really dark, depressing stuff.

You have an amazing ability to depress me sometimes, you know that?" "I try my best.

The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and discouraging place to look.

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

I don't like to watch myself. For the most part, I find it weird. It depresses me; I'm very critical.

What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.

Let your minds be filled with the goal of being like the Lord, and you will crowd out depressing thoughts as you anxiously seek to know Him and do His will.

We can't allow ouselves to be depresses or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have a little bit of time in this world before death swallows us up.

When you go to a power spot, and you think negative or depressing thoughts they tend to grow stronger. Whereas, if you think more positive, happier thoughts, they tend to increase in strength.

It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.

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.

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival

It can be very lonely and depressing to be a writer, and to be alone in your own head.

Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind.

Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it.

Harry, I've left a letter telling your aunt and uncle not to worry--" "They won't," said Harry. "That you're safe--" "That'll just depress them." "--and you'll see them next summer." "Do I have to?

Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last 50 years, and most of it is depressing, brutal, ugly, unhealthy, and spiritually degrading.

The very things in your life that seem to be depressing and oppressing you right now are going to be the means by which you set yourself free.

I can't think of anything when I'm depressed. I just want to be alone.

Manipulating currencies is when you're going into the marketplace and buying something in large amounts to depress the value of the currency.

Sometimes it's a little depressing - why does the world need any more pictures?

I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books.

There is nothing funny about aging: It is rotten and depressing. Anyone who tells you otherwise just hasn't been paying attention.

I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.

I love to read about anger. A "feel bad" book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the history of literature is more depressing than Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children.

It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling. After all, if you were small, the grimy beetle crawled on - which was just what you wanted it to do.

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 to harrow up all the harsh feelings and depress the human mind.

I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.

Without humor, a sports fan is a religious fanatic. Without humor, a newscast is a terrible, depressing, unpalatable thing.

It was just that she had the need to tell him something honest, something honest and unhappy, because cheerful lies tonight were too depressing and too sharp, turning in on her like pins

Your explanation depresses me," I said. "Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.

That's a depressing and practical thought," Sam said. "I'd rather it was something magical.

Documentaries are my favorite thing, and the more depressing, the better.

Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.

Why should women have to fit into child sizes in order to be considered desirable? That is both sick and depressing.

I'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.

I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.