Depressing Quotes - Page 18

• Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest to the clouds. Thou shakest us with ague, but also thou steadiest like frost. Thou sickenest the heart, but also thou healest its infirmities.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Art, Grief, Passion

  Thomas De Quincey (1862). “Confessions of an English Opium-eater: And, Suspiria de Profundis”, p.182

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• I love depressing movies and depressing books.

  Amy Sedaris

  Book

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I know when something is done and when it isn't. There's been times working on movies when they [moviemakers] lock in a release date and so you're stuck to that schedule. But sometimes you're still editing and you feel like you're not really done, but they're sort of releasing the movie anyway - that's kind of depressing.

  Rob Zombie

  Editing, Release Date, Locks

  Source: onstagereview.com

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• That's another thing that's depressing: certain attitudes in Congress. They assume that you're dumb; they can take advantage of you being dumb. I find that offensive. It insults our intelligence. They're playing us for dumb and they're being dumb in doing it. But I believe that's gonna change. I think those people, the McConnells, are not helping us at all. They're taking us backward in time.

  Robert Redford

  Attitude, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn't get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Jobs, Creativity, Kids

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks HITRECORD ON TV, How the Idea Came about, His Collaborative Company, Inspiring People to Contribute, and Plans for Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 15, 2014.

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• I'm really interested in making movies that people see: I've made a lot of independent films and it's really depressing when no one sees them.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Independent, People, Film

  "Elizabeth Banks On Directing, Playing the Hero in ‘Love & Mercy’ and Concluding ‘The Hunger Games’". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. September 24, 2015.

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• The most depressing thing is the political slogan: there is no alternative. But there is.

  Ken Loach

  Political, Alternatives, Slogans

  "Ken Loach and Paul Laverty". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2007.

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• Actually, I was rock climbing on this film at 7 in the morning. It was quite unique! But in any event, the colour of the leaves disturbed me so we had to work on that. On the other hand, I didn't want to drench it in a kind of depressing tone.

  Martin Scorsese

  Morning, Unique, Rocks

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country that is under the thumb of a dictator.

  Arthur Frommer

  Country, Culture, Thumbs

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• When I was 6 I thought that I wanted to be a musician - like a singer-songwriter. That's what I romantically envisioned for myself. But in reality the experience of getting into music was just the opposite. My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

  Andrew Garfield

  Reality, Guitar, Years

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• 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?

  Declan Shalvey

  Dark, Wire, Serious

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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

  Declan Shalvey

  Dark, Fans, Stuff

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• We have to always spread sugar on top of it in order that we can tolerate swallowing the things we're supposed to do, which is an incredibly depressing way of thinking about living your life. Not just that your work or your home life would be so miserable that you have to slather sugar on it, but then the sugar is all you're tasting. If that's the only way that I'm finding meaning, then we have this sort of mental diabetes that we're descending into.

  Ian Bogost

  Home, Thinking, Order

  Source: app.longform.org

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• It is a culturally interesting (but also deeply depressing) fact that many religious claims seem to retain their emotional power for believers only if taken in ways that are intellectually unsupportable and even morally contemptible.

  Allen W. Wood

  Religious, Taken, Emotional

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It is sad to witness the persistence in our society of the racism and xenophobia that seems to be a permanent part of our political culture. It is shameful to see politicians exploiting these human weaknesses in order to gain political power. It is most depressing of all to contemplate a future in which politicians who do this will continue to have influence over people's lives.

  Allen W. Wood

  Xenophobia, Persistence, Order

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The incident itself happened in London, but because we were all based at the time in Los Angeles we moved it there. Certain details are almost exactly like the true experience, but we decided to make the film more of a thriller, in the hope that it would reach a bigger audience. That's why it's called "Selling Isobel" and not "Selling Frida." We didn't want to make a dark, depressing "movie-of-the-week."

  Rudolf Buitendach

  Dark, Details, Want

  Source: variety.com

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• There are no winners in this election [2016]. I paid attention to it for about two months and then it just started to depress me. At least Hillary's [Clinton] a politician, but the fact that you've got a guy from a reality TV show! I have to say, out of everything I've ever watched in sports - the greatest comebacks ever - watching [Donald Trump] get the nomination for the Republican Party is the most astounding thing I've ever seen.

  Bill Burr

  Sports, Party, Reality

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Monica Langley of the "Wall Street Journal" is reporting that Donald Trump's strategy is essentially two-pronged. that he's trying to use the split in the GOP to rally his base and trying to depress Democratic turnout.

  Anderson Cooper

  Wall, Two, Trying

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• I think Hillary Clinton's been's depressing democratic turnout.

  Anderson Cooper

  Thinking, Clinton, Democratic

  "Anderson Cooper Interview With Kellyanne Conway Says Hillary Clinton Has Been Fighting For Herself For 30 Years". Interview With Anderson Cooper, lybio.net.

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

  Jamie Dimon

  Buying Something, Currency, Marketplace

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• I was in Mexico City. It's a very pleasant city in many ways. It's vibrant, lively, pretty exciting society, but also depressing in other ways, and sometimes almost hopeless, you know. So it's a combination of vibrancy and, I wouldn't say despair, but hopelessness, you know. Doesn't have to be, but it is. I mean, there is almost no economy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Cities, Despair

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Endings of television shows are sometimes such depressing things. It's like you're not going to hang out with these people anymore, and that's bad enough.

  Scott Aukerman

  People, Television, Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but I'm not approaching it from the scientific point of view. I'm saying: Why do we need that? It's a sordid story, a depressing story, a dark story. Why should I believe that I'm a descendant of either Cain or Abel? Thank God there is a third son! [Genesis 4:25]

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Son, Dark

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I could go on and on about how the statements and concepts that used to depress me now bring me joy, but that is not easily understood for people who think the way I used to think and believe what I used to believe.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Decline and Fall was a very depressing Evelyn Waugh novel, I think it was his first. I didn't get it at all, and then I got to love Waugh. And I think that maybe "Cosmopolitans" has a bit of an Evelyn Waugh vibe to it at some point.

  Whit Stillman

  Fall, Thinking, Firsts

  Source: newrepublic.com

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