Depressing Quotes - Page 19

• A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest, able to find every tree, but each one coming as a surprise.

  Roger Ebert

  Men, Numbers, People

  "Diagnosing 'Emily Rose'" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. September 18, 2005.

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

  David R. Brower

  Fun, World, Saving

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• As the places where Americans dwell become evermore depressing and impossible, Disneyworld is where they escape to worship the nation in the abstract, a cartoon capital of a cartoon republic enshrining the falsehoods, half-truths, and delusions that prop up the squishy thing the national character has become--for instance, that we are a nation of families; that we care about our fellow citizens; that history matters; that there is a place called home.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Home, Character, Cartoon

  James Howard Kunstler (1993). “The geography of nowhere: the rise and decline of America's man-made landscape”

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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 only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather uplifting, actually, since I find the sort of blind optimism and empty laughter of a great deal of "contemporary culture" to be more depressing than something that admits to a potential for disappointment and a gnawing sense of existential mockery.

  Chris Ware

  Uplifting, Disappointment, Laughter

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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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• The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath.
  [Lat., Quin corpus onustum
  Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una
  Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.]

  Horace

  Yesterday, Mind, Excess

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• How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?

  Maria Edgeworth

  Hope, Fear, Faculty

  Maria Edgeworth, Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1971). “The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.

  Sallust

  Justice, Fortune, All Things

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• Men have an easier time buying bathing suits. Women have two types: depressing and more depressing. Men have two types: nerdy and not nerdy.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• You know, when I was in college, there was a big debate: Do unions raise wages? Well, with regard to industrial unions, there were arguments back and forth -- international competition. It is now clear, I think, that whether or not you think unions raised wages 50 years ago, the absence of unions and their weakness that is inflicted by anti-union public policy depresses wages. The fact is that people who are not represented, in the service industries in particular, are the victims of policies which depress their wages.

  Barney Frank

  College, Thinking, Years

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

  Keith Olbermann

  Sports, Religious, Fans

  "News Duo Thinking Young" by David Bauder, www.deseretnews.com. December 09, 2003.

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• If the numbers mean anything, they tell us that vastly more life is left in the reviled internal-combustion engine than any of the blue-state lefties could imagine. First, that madman Bush wins, and now this news. How depressing.

  Brock Yates

  Mean, Winning, Blue

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

  Joan Rivers

  Attention, Rotten, Aging

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• The aim of Satanic power is to cut off communication with God. To accomplish this aim he deludes the soul with a sense of defeat, covers him with a thick cloud of darkness, depresses and oppresses the spirit, which in turn hinders prayer and leads to unbelief - thus destroying all power.

  James O. Fraser

  Prayer, Communication, Cutting

  "Behind the Ranges: The Life-changing Story of J.O. Fraser" by Geraldine Taylor, Singapore: OMF International (IHQ) Ltd., (p. 157), 1998.

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• If social security depresses savings rates, it is only because it is unfunded.

  Robert Kuttner

  Saving, Social, Rate

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.77, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Stronger

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• I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

  Elton John

  Thinking, Musician, Cabaret

  "Elton John: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Paul Gambaccini, www.rollingstone.com. August 16, 1973.

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• I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.

  Erica Jong

  Fighting, Winning, Thinking

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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

  Ellen Glasgow

  Mediocrity, Way, Inevitable

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

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• Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others.

  Jeremy Collier

  Passion, Men, Honor

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• Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development.

  Dave Barry

  Dream, Men, Males

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• Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people.

  Rae Foley

  People, Mazes, Looks

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• It might be depressing, but it's also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save everyone on the planet from going hungry, living in poverty or allowed basic human rights. But consider the other side of this: there are people in this world who truly WOULD do all of these things for everyone if only they could. There is hope after all.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Rights, People, World

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• Now I'm searching for a slightly overweight, single, childless woman who doesn't have a date and isn't too depressing to be around. It's getting harder to find a girlfriend than a boyfriend.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Friends, Girlfriend, Overweight

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