Depressing Quotes - Page 12

• I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.

  Ben Stiller

  New York, Giving Up, People

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• 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, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

  Joseph Addison

  Graduation, Education, Home

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• 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

  Men, Minutes, Turns

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• 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.

  E.F. Benson

  Cheer, World, Ifs

  E. F. Benson (2014). “Delphi Works of E. F. Benson with the Complete Mapp and Lucia Novels (Illustrated)”, p.3230, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Darcey Steinke

  Hands, Relief, Certain

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• 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 the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  Life, Wise, Laughter

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• 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 in humor. They have not allowed ‘dignity’ to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Brother, Growing Up

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• 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 man.

  Zach Braff

  Character, Men, Play

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• 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 in our history (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929); all six of them followed sustained periods of reducing the national debt. We have had almost chronic deficits since the 1930s, and there has been no depression since then - the longest crash-free period in our history.

  Molly Ivins

  Debt, Statistics, Libertarian

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Men, Average

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.49, 谷月社

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• 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 being who we are in the moment.

  Barbara Brennan

  Pain, Healing, Order

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• 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 guilt and to repent.

  Hannah Arendt

  Being Sad, Guilt, Noble

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.221, Penguin

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• 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 and downs. I don't want people to think Dana Hill is so depressing all she does is cry. But the parts are so good, I can't turn them down.

  Dana Hill

  Kids, Emotional, Thinking

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• 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 being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech, that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible. Don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

  Rex Harrison

  Pygmalion, Native Language, Soul

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• Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe and the universe is connected to me.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Perspective, Needs

  "What is Your Relevance to the Cosmos?". bigthink.com.

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• 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 on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible. In the same manner the capitalists use child labour to depress women's wages and the work of machines to depress all human labour.

  Clara Zetkin

  Children, Two, Competition

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• 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 out quite distinctly, head and shoulders above the rest of the herd: Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, and Bush’s America. At times when working on the three relevant chapters, I had to remind myself which chapter was the one in front of me: the parallels between the three regimes, in terms of their vigorous attempts to trample honest science underfoot, are as horrifically close as that.

  John Grant

  Past, Russia, America

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• Employees hate meetings because they reveal that self-promotion, sycophancy, dissimulation and constantly talking nonsense in a loud confident voice are more impressive than merely being good at the job - and it is depressing to lack these skills but even more depressing to discover one's self using them.

  Michael Foley

  Jobs, Hate, Self

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• Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Culture Religion, Criticism, Tradition

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• You may feel depressed, but it can't be so depressing that you can't move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they are elated about expressing their depression!

  Aaron Copland

  Moving, People, May

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• It's an exciting place to go, really. The rain, the drizzle, the cold, the depressing people, the smokes in the bath ... I don't know of anyone who has been to Blackpool and enjoyed it.

  Ian Hindmarsh

  Rain, Rugby League, People

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• I have more fun and more grand and glorious moments of my life than anyone I've never known. I know that some people call that manic-depress, and that other people call that being touched by God. I just call myself lucky.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Fun, People, Lucky

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• 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.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Mom, Meaningful, Song

  "Aubrey Plaza on Rejection, Tina Fey, and Safety Not Guaranteed". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. June 8, 2012.

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• Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Evil, Consciousness, Diminish

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.291, Courier Corporation

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• A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

  Walter Lippmann

  Country, Mean, Law

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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