Depressing Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• 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.

  Robert Tisserand

  Oil, Usual, Different

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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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• The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, it is the truth and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion.

  Henry Ford

  Yield, Evil, Confusion

  Henry Ford (1949). “The International Jew: the World's Foremost Problem”, p.243, Library of Alexandria

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• A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

  Etta James

  Thinking, People, Singing

  FaceBook post by Etta James from Sep 21, 2013

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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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• Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Lovers, Modest

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean, it's true.

  Emily Mortimer

  Mean, Hair, Worry

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• 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.

  Jessica Pare

  Beautiful, Book, Dark

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

  Brian Acton

  Advertisements, Ads

  "Exclusive: The Rags-To-Riches Tale Of How Jan Koum Built WhatsApp Into Facebook's New $19 Billion Baby" by Parmy Olson, www.forbes.com. February 19, 2014.

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• If you, through poor judgment, were to cover your shoes with mud, would you leave them that way? Of course not. You would cleanse and restore them. Would you then gather the residue of mud and place it in an envelope to show others the mistake that you made? No. Neither should you continue to relive forgiven sin. Every time such thoughts come into your mind, turn your heart in gratitude to the Savior, who gave His life that we, through faith in Him and obedience to His teachings, can overcome transgression and conquer its depressing influence in our lives.

  Richard G. Scott

  Forgiveness, Gratitude, Mistake

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• 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.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Optimistic, Work Out, Trying

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• 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.

  Hesketh Pearson

  Crush, Fate, Blow

  Hesketh Pearson (1926). “The whispering gallery: being leaves from a diplomat's diary”

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• Enthusiasm reaches out with joy, for there is nothing depressing about it; it reaches out in faith, for there is no fear in it; it reaches out with acceptance, for there is no doubt in it; it reaches out as a child for there is no uncertainty about it.

  Ernest Holmes

  Children, Acceptance, Joy

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

  Hans Selye

  Failure, Past, Achievement

  hans selye (1974). “stress without distress”

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• The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

  T. S. Eliot

  Mediocrity, Pressure, Glaciers

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Jack Dee

  Effects

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• Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

  John Ralston Saul

  Happiness, Views, Victory

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.

  Kate Millett

  Kindness, Males, Facts

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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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• 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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• In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

  Ariel Gore

  Moments, Behinds, Staying

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• Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.

  Aloe Blacc

  Song, Thinking, Firsts

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