Depressing Quotes - Page 5

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

  Dorothy Parker

  Suicide, Gun, Smell

  "Resume" l. 5 (1926)

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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)

  93 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Luis Bunuel

  Time, Alcohol, May

  53 Copy quote
• 

  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.

  186 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always find the most depressing stuff most interesting.

  Jennifer Coolidge

  Interesting, Stuff, Most Depressing

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

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• A winter without snow seems depressing, lacking.

  Dacia Maraini

  Winter, Snow, Lacking

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Culture Religion, Criticism, Tradition

  7 Copy quote

• Enthusiasm reaches out with joy, for there is nothing depressing about it; it reaches out in faith, for there is no fear in it; it reaches out with acceptance, for there is no doubt in it; it reaches out as a child for there is no uncertainty about it.

  Ernest Holmes

  Children, Acceptance, Joy

  11 Copy quote

• Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.

  Hans Selye

  Failure, Past, Achievement

  hans selye (1974). “stress without distress”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

  T. S. Eliot

  Mediocrity, Pressure, Glaciers

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Part of what depresses me so much about football is that it's so clearly about exploiting people, most of them poor boys of color, because of what they can do to entertain us, not because we have any genuine concern for them as people.

  Steve Almond

  Football, Boys, Genuine Concern

  Source: therumpus.net

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

  John Ralston Saul

  Happiness, Views, Victory

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.

  Kate Millett

  Kindness, Males, Facts

  8 Copy quote

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  Jack Dee

  Effects

  7 Copy quote

• Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind.

  Hesketh Pearson

  Crush, Fate, Blow

  Hesketh Pearson (1926). “The whispering gallery: being leaves from a diplomat's diary”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We should have absolute control over our borders. If we want cheap labor to depress wages and disempower the unions, then we could have guest workers. But we have to face that issue. What is it that we want to do? Rather than not facing it, and having porous borders, and the effect is that it disempowers the unions.

  Mark Helprin

  Should Have, Issues, Wages

  Source: americasfuture.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last 50 years, and most of it is depressing, brutal, ugly, unhealthy, and spiritually degrading.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Years, America, Ugly

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Children, Ties, Parent

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean, it's true.

  Emily Mortimer

  Mean, Hair, Worry

  4 Copy quote

• I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books.

  Jessica Pare

  Beautiful, Book, Dark

  4 Copy quote

• Dealing with ads is depressing. You don’t make anyone’s life better by making advertisements work better.

  Brian Acton

  Advertisements, Ads

  "Exclusive: The Rags-To-Riches Tale Of How Jan Koum Built WhatsApp Into Facebook's New $19 Billion Baby" by Parmy Olson, www.forbes.com. February 19, 2014.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The thing that's depressing is I think that the crime is becoming more concentrated and we are moving very quickly towards a two-class society. Income and equality are both becoming gigantic issues. There is less and less money for the states and localities for anti crime programs because we have this gigantic war on terror.

  Ethan Brown

  War, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.hitfix.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source