Depressing Quotes - Page 9

• In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter to be known as Kerr's law, which states in essence: All the houses you can afford to buy are depressing.

  Jean Kerr

  Mistake, Law, Essence

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• I always like junkyards. All this metal piled up - they're filled with pathos, those places. Much more pathos than most of the music I've heard. You look at it, and there's more feeling, even though it's depressing, than there is in a lot of music I hear these days. A junkyard is what it is, whereas listening to a record by, say, Styx, is something else.

  Tom Verlaine

  Feelings, Listening, Looks

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• 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.

  William Barclay

  Christian, People, Wicked

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• I felt like I could get away with calling it Black Hours. That could easily be the most depressing record ever written, but because there is this sense of fun throughout the whole thing I felt like I could get away with it. Like "5 A.M."; that song's in a minor key and I'm just wailing away and it could have been just wallowing depression, but it's not.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Song, Fun, Keys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not saying that I made a film to make young people feel great, not such a simple message, but I really felt that I will not go back to do something depressing. I had to make something happy and funny, and show that there are always many ways to continue - even when you're feeling ugly, or you are forgotten by your parents.

  Lukas Moodysson

  Simple, People, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

  Mark Kozelek

  Challenges, Stressful, Exciting

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Night, Waiting, Sitting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The problem with movies and books is they make evil look glamorous, exciting, when it's no such thing. It's boring and it's depressing and it's stupid. Criminals are all after cheap thrills and easy money, and when they get them, all they want is more of the same, over and over. They're shallow, empty, boring people who couldn't give you five minutes of interesting conversation if you had the piss-poor luck to be at a party full of them. Maybe some can be monkey-clever, some of the time, but they aren't hardly ever smart.

  Dean Koontz

  Clever, Smart, Stupid

  Dean Koontz (2007). “From the Corner of His Eye: A Novel”, p.552, Bantam

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• It is depressing but not shocking to witness the liberal intelligentsia embrace Ari Shavit so enthusiastically. Shavit is someone who is as consistently wrong as Thomas Friedman on major issues, and at least as much a courtier of power.

  Max Blumenthal

  Issues, Embrace, Witness

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The Runaways' audience was 90 percent male. That was kind of depressing...Why don't women-our own gender-come out and support us?

  Joan Jett

  Support, Males, Kind

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• To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds and mountain streams, wandering nowhere, of flowers in impenetrable canyons, beautiful for no one to see, and of the ocean surf forever washing the sand, to no end.

  Alan Watts

  Beautiful, Ocean, Flower

  Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

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• I hope to God I don't win an Oscar tomorrow night. It would really depress me if I did. I really don't deserve it. It wasn't that important a part anyhow.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Winning, Night, Important

  "Biting The Hand That Feeds? 10 Actors Who Dissed The Oscars Before Joaquin Phoenix" by Oliver Lyttelton, www.indiewire.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I think my music's kind of cold, but I don't know if it's related to the weather. It might be because it's always grey [in Montreal], it's very depressing.

  Grimes

  Thinking, Weather, Might

  "Always Waiting For The Shivers To Happen: Grimes Interviewed". Interview with Angus Finlayson, thequietus.com. May 25, 2012.

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• Is everybody that depressed? It's a depressing feeling to me. You know: "I lost my baby." I don't care if you lost your baby, I care if you're feeling OK. Don't tell me your problem - tell me what good's been happening to you.

  Alice Cooper

  Baby, Feelings, Care

  Interview with Mike Quigley, www.mjq.net. September 1969.

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• I mean that's really depressing man. Of course, the kids are freaking out. They watch cartoons and sit in front of the television and their parents are just probably yuppies who focus their entire lives around the child. The child has no sense of context, no sense of what world they are inhabiting-just like this Disnified bag of Cheerios reality. Don't give them a @#$%& pill! God! Take them out on a canoe already! You know what I mean?

  Emily Haines

  Children, Mean, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If something depressing is happening, that's gold. That's the best possible situation you could be in. But if that doesn't happen, you just have to make up stuff - it's more fun because you have more freedom with what you can write about. You can invent characters and situations. It's actually easier.

  Eliot Paulina Sumner

  Fun, Writing, Character

  "The Self-Aware Solo Artist". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.

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• The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually have preconceived ideas about blues music. They always feel that it's depressing and that it's just something that a guy sit out on a stool, grab a guitar, and just start singing or mumbling or whatever.

  B. B. King

  Player, Guitar, Years

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I think pain is the best feeling for song writing. You can write good happy songs, but I think the kind of bruiting, depressing ones are more effective. They are easier to write when I am impassioned and angry. It is a good way to channel that negative energy.

  Adam Levine

  Song, Pain, Writing

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• There is nothing so depressing as good advice, and I will be pleased if you do not inflict it upon me. Frankly, I am shocked at you. You must know this, surely? Some years ago I suffered such an offensively gratuitous piece of good advice that I was depressed for six months afterward. It was a very close call - I almost never recovered.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Years, Advice, Months

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.482, St. Martin's Press

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• I don't ever mean my pictures to be depressing - I don't believe in making depressing pictures.

  Walter Rosenblum

  Believe, Mean, Don't Believe

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• I saw the most frightening, most depressing sight I had ever seen - a row of stores with Stars of David and the word 'Jude' painted on them, and inside, behind half-empty counters, people in a daze, cringing like they didn't know what hit them and didn't know where the next blow would come from. Hitler had been in power only six months, and his boycott was already in full effect. I hadn't been so wholly conscious of being a Jew since my bar mitzvahs, and it was the first time since I'd had the measles that I was too sick to eat.

  Harpo Marx

  Stars, Blow, Sight

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The suburban West is, from a moral perspective, depressing evidence that we have misused our freedom. There is, however, another aspect to the landscape, an unexpected glory. Over the cheap tracts and littered arroyos one sometimes see a light as clean as that recorded by O'Sullivan. Since it owes nothing to our care, it is an assurance; beauty is final.

  Robert Adams

  Light, Perspective, Finals

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• All you have is the writer's imagination. You have a very limited time to take this imaginary person and bring the details of their life, as you perceive them, to life. You attempt to do to that as fully and as vibrantly as you can. It's depressing to read how much you've failed. And it's not even particularly instructive or necessary to read how you succeeded because in the end don't you have to judge that?

  John Malkovich

  Imagination, Judging, Details

  "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.

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• Every video from Russia is depressing, it's like they have their cameras set to sad.

  Daniel Tosh

  Russia, Cameras, Video

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• They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had Stanley Something-or-other take in Sacramento in 1988 to serve as backgrounds to his cartoons. People don't draw it, all this crap, people don't focus attention on it because it's ugly, it's bleak, it's depressing... But, this is the world we live in; I wanted my work to reflect that, the background reality of urban life. )

  Robert Crumb

  Reality, People, Focus

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