Depressing Quotes - Page 5

• In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sad, Morning, Real

  "Handle with Care" (1936)

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• Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

  Dorothy Parker

  Suicide, Gun, Smell

  "Resume" l. 5 (1926)

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• The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

  Luis Bunuel

  Time, Alcohol, May

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  The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Positive

  Interview with Edward W. Desmond, Time magazine, December 04, 1989.

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• I always find the most depressing stuff most interesting.

  Jennifer Coolidge

  Interesting, Stuff, Most Depressing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

  David O. Selznick

  Christmas, Holiday, Sunday

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• August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation.

  Willard Scott

  August, Littles, Eating

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• As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense.

  Victoria Legrand

  Forever, Doe, Lasts

  "Beach House and the curse of the big time". Interview with Sian Rowe, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• A winter without snow seems depressing, lacking.

  Dacia Maraini

  Winter, Snow, Lacking

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant, Also it is a duty, we should smile as well as submitting To the purpose of One Above who is experimenting With various mixtures of human character which goes best, All is interesting for him it is exciting, but not for us. There I go again. Smile, smile, and get some work to do Then you will be practically unconscious without positively having to go.

  Stevie Smith

  Character, Interesting, Wish

  Stevie Smith, “Thoughts About The Person From Porlock”

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• There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery’s version of the Barack Obama “Hope” poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama’s Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists’ Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.

  Thomas Frank

  Portraits, Lobbyists, Lasts

  "Obama and the K Street Set" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2009.

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  There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

  Anton Chekhov

  Being Yourself, Insulting, Awful

  "The Teacher of Literature". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1894.

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• The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.

  Harold Prince

  Believe, Ideas, Sides

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• The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Mind, Looks, Body

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• How many demons and people are enslaved here? (Jericho) Define slavery. (Asmodeus) Kept against their will. (Jericho) Good definition. Counting me? (Asmodeus) Why not? (Jericho) Probably a couple of million…you know it’s really hard to count to a million, plus they’re always dying and new ones are coming in. I tried to count once, but it got really depressing so I stopped. The constant adding and subtracting. Not my forte, really. (Asmodeus)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Couple, People, Dying

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• His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between.

  Lev Grossman

  Crush, Relief, Gone

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.57, Penguin

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• In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing. Many jerks are made gloomy about it, for they think quantity buries them alive. That's just crazy. Numbers are very dangerous, but the main thing about them is that they humble your pride. And that's good.

  Saul Bellow

  Crazy, Humble, Pride

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• I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that don't seem to know these things go on, or hide them in resolute chipperness; "witty stories," in which every problem is the occasion for a joke; "upbeat" stories that flog you with transcendence. Please. We're grown ups now.

  Tobias Wolff

  Witty, Stories, Goes On

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• Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Mean, Boys, Guy

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more depressing than an ugly girl with no personality.

  Julia Quinn

  Girl, Knowing, People

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• I'd accepted a while ago that there were too many reasons for me to even think about him romantically anymore. Every once in a while, I slipped a little and kind of wished he would too. It'd have been nice to know that he still wanted me, that I still drove him crazy. Studying him now, I realized he might not ever slip because I didn't drive him crazy anymore. It was a depressing thought.

  Richelle Mead

  Crazy, Nice, Thinking

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.35, Penguin

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• There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.

  Galt Niederhoffer

  Summer, Rainy Day, Weather

  Galt Niederhoffer (2008). “The Romantics”, p.9, Macmillan

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• It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too.

  Leonard Cohen

  Apples, People, Firsts

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.66, Vintage

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• No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

  Franz Kafka

  Lying, Views, Needs

  Franz Kafka (2016). “The Trial”, p.175, Franz Kafka

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• The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.

  Michael Lewis

  Baseball, Men, Intellectual

  Michael Lewis (2004). “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

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