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• With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Alternatives, Dull, Madness

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, Simon and Schuster

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• It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Self, Faults

  "Jingo". Book by Terry Pratchett, November 1997.

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• The Lord's way builds individual self esteem and develops and heals the dignity of the individual, whereas the world's way depresses the individual's view of himself and causes deep resentment

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Self Esteem, Views, World

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

  Noel Fielding

  Reality, World, Needs

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• My father worked for the same firm for 12 years. They fired him and replaced him with a tiny gadget that does everything my father does, only much better. The depressing thing is my mother ran out and bought one

  Woody Allen

  Mother, Time, Father

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• Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Funny, Break Up

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• I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.

  Joanne Woodward

  Block, School, Self

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• When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Strong, War

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• I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just abandoned them. It was depressing, but it wasn’t the end of the world. When it really isn’t working, and you’ve been bashing yourself against the wall, it’s kind of a relief. I mean, sometimes you bash yourself against the wall and you get through it. But sometimes the wall is just a wall. There’s nothing to be done but go somewhere else.

  Margaret Atwood

  Wall, Block, Book

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• Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not.

  Ann Demeulemeester

  Fashion, Color, Yellow

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• Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What then brings the joy we so much desire? Are some people just lucky, while others have run out of luck? Strange as it may sound, we can choose joy. Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently than the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it. What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.

  Henri Nouwen

  Running, Two, People

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, War, Struggle

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.111, Broadway Books

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• If the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstandin g without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Blame, Praise, Calvary

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• Life, like any other exciting story, is bound to have painful and scary parts, boring and depressing parts, but it's a brilliant story, and it's up to us how it will turn out in the end.

  Bo Lozoff

  Life, Scary, Stories

  Bo Lozoff (2015). “We're All Doing Time: A Guide for Getting Free”, p.34, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Those who constantly try to impress others will quickly depress themselves.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Trying, Impress

  Twitter post from Oct 31, 2016

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• I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.

  David Alan Grier

  Home, Clothes, Trying

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• There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotsky and father Blum and father Franco is just commencing now and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing. England is the only country now that has not got one and so they are more cheerful there than anywhere. It is a long time now that they have not had any fathering and so their cheerfulness is increasing.

  Gertrude Stein

  Country, Father, Long

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• But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.

  Karen Armstrong

  Fall, Despair, Stories

  Karen Armstrong (2004). “A Short History Of Myth”, p.2, Canongate Books

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• To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Laughter, Sight, Hands

  "The joy of traditional games" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.

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• When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing.

  Moby

  Thinking, People, Mars

  "Moby takes sober look at his life as a musician". Interview With Allison Stewart, articles.chicagotribune.com. June 13, 2013.

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• Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.

  Veronica Roth

  Mean, Thinking, Perfect

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• Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Reality, Men

  "The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde".

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• What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Dream, People, Advice

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.31, Publishdrive

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• A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

  Boethius

  Men, Feeling Alone, Heaven

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• When I ask people to contemplate selflessness, the sometimes react as if I've asked them to put their house on the market or give away all their money. If there was a self that existed in the way we think, discovering selflessness would be like putting our house on the market. But in the Buddhist tradition, the discovery of selflessness is called "completely joyful." It's not called "the raw end of the deal," or "I'd rather go back to bed," or "This is scary and depressing."

  Sakyong Mipham

  Buddhist, Thinking, Discovery

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