Depressing Quotes - Page 20

• There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.

  Marie Corelli

  Self, World, Moral

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• It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Mean, Facts

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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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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• International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Politics, Study, Foreign Policy

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• it is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.

  Angela Thirkell

  Thinking, Self, Dare

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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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• 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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• The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

  Leonard Cohen

  Depression, Psychics, Landscape

  The International Herald Tribune, November 4, 1988.

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• As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing.

  Moby

  People, Financial, Aspect

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• The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make existing batteries better.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Technology, Get Better, Trying

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• Watching National League pitchers trying to hit or even bunt is depressing.

  Ron Blomberg

  League, Trying, Pitcher

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• I dislike nothing more than finding fault with a man's nature or talent; it only depresses and worries and does no good; one cannot add a cubit to one's stature, all striving and struggling are useless there, so one has to be silent about it, and let the responsibility rest with God.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Struggle, Responsibility, Men

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• The surest sign that you're working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don't complain very much about doing what it takes.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Discipline, Complaining, Spirit

  Danielle LaPorte (2014). “The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul”, p.39, Sounds True

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• There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Knowledge, Years

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.137, Penguin

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• I guess I have a gift for expressing pedestrian tastes. In a way, it's kind of depressing.

  Bill Watterson

  Way, Taste, Kind

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• Anything is depressing if you dwell on it. The fact that religion could end the world? Yeah, I guess that could be considered depressing. But considering that there's also a lot to laugh at, I think it's a good balance.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Laughing, Balance

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The very things in your life that seem
  to be depressing and oppressing you
  right now are going to be the means
  by which you set yourself free.

  James Lecesne

  Mean, Right Now, Seems

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• Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?

  Wilkie Collins

  Country, Eye, Mind

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “The Woman in White: Wilkie Collins Top Collections”, p.432, 谷月社

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• One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical. Canonise 'business success,' and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!

  Ida Tarbell

  Business, Hero, Men

  Ida M. Tarbell (2012). “The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version”, p.224, Courier Corporation

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• Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and, in truth, our own private interest concurs in it, as it is making ourselves so many friends, instead of so many enemies.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friends, People, Enemy

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.199

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• It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

  Anton Chekhov

  Death, Men, Dying

  "On the Road". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1886.

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• In order to learn true humility (I use this expression to describe the state of mind under discussion), it is good for a person to withdraw from the turmoil of the world (we see that Christ withdrew when the people wanted to proclaim him king as well as when he had to walk the thorny path), for in life either the depressing or the elevating impression is too dominant for a true balance to come about. Here, of course, individuality is very decisive.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Kings, Humility, Expression

  "Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers: Autobiographical, 1829-1848". Book by Søren Kierkegaard and Gregor Malantschuk, p. 33, Journals 1A 68 (July 29, 1835), 1978.

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• Just don't do things that depress you. I realized if it depresses me, then I just don't want to get close to it. If it brings me down, I just really can't get into it.

  John Currin

  Want, Bring Me Down, I Realized

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think a lot of people take a scholarly approach where they feel like you're supposed to study things that depress you.

  John Currin

  Thinking, People, Study

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's a certain kind of neurological makeup that goes along with being a writer, and having been in the room with a few other writers at the same time, it's rather wearing to be around. And it does - there is a kind of hypervigilance about it. Unfortunately it's got disadvantages. If you turn that hypervigilance on yourself and, for instance, whether or not you have a pimple on the end of your nose, it can get really depressing.

  David Foster Wallace

  Makeup, Doe, Noses

  Source: news.stlpublicradio.org

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