Disheartening Quotes

• Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

  Joseph Joubert

  Spiritual, Soul, World

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.32

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• Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

  Willa Cather

  Country, Depressing, Absence

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.947, eBookIt.com

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• Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.

  Mike McCready

  Respect, Band, Littles

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• As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience.

  Sylvia Day

  Book, Writing, Soul

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• Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.

  Sia Furler

  Successful, Artist, Knowing

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

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• PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hope, Philosophy, Pessimism

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Effort, Rude

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• The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.

  Emma Goldman

  Ideas, Personality, Tears

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.24, 谷月社

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• Don't tell me the sky's the limit.

  Paul Brandt

  Inspirational, Moon, Sky

  Song: There's A World Out There, Album: That's the Truth, 1999

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• It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur,' to increase public awareness to our cause. These are great/courageous ideas which time has come! Liberation of animals is REVOLUTION - not elegant performance/ intellectual competition. We should do most anything to advance the animal rights cause. All the bickering may make the one step forward... TWO STEPS BACKWARD???

  Adela Popescu

  Animal, Ideas, Two

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• Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y.' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening. It is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Uplifting, Meaningful, Responsibility

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• Its disheartening to read the really negative stuff, but at the same time, I know who I am, and Im comfortable with myself.

  Austin Carlile

  Who I Am, Negative, Stuff

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• Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever . . .

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Friendship, Knowing Nothing, Anxiety

  Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”

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• If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means. And if there is any one thing that is grinding and discouraging and disheartening, it is to have debts and obligations that one cannot meet.

  Heber J. Grant

  Heart, Mean, Contentment

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• When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.

  Frank Miller

  Thinking, Cities, America

  "Writers, Artists Describe State of the Union". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 24, 2007.

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• Choice is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Choices, Tools, Want

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• I think any filmmaker will tell you when they wandered from theater to theater to watch their prints, it was disheartening to see the poor levels of light and the disrespect for films that existed in certain theater chains. It was always inconsistent. And in the lab, too, the photochemical process was very difficult to watch, because sometimes they were shipping prints that you didn't even know were two points off or three points off. We suffered greatly to make these films, and they'd be out-of-focus, with the sound too low.

  Oliver Stone

  Thinking, Light, Two

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's not like I had to throw the football and deal with that as well. It was more disheartening, to be honest with you, just to kind of see how the National Football League really is.

  Adrian Peterson

  Football, League, Honest

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I don't think that moms, with all that's going on in our society today, would want to put their kids in front of something that will be disheartening rather than uplifting.

  Octavia Spencer

  Uplifting, Mom, Kids

  Source: www.npr.org

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• how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!

  Vita Sackville-West

  Experience, Poor

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• My mother told me that everything in life happened for a purpose. She said all things were part of God's plan, even the most disheartening setbacks, and in the end, everything worked out for the best.

  Ronald Reagan

  God, Mother, Purpose

  Ronald Reagan (2011). “An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture, because then you feel like everything good already happened. I really just try to be in the present with music and just find the things that are invigorating and make me feel happy to be alive right now.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Art, Thinking, Views

  "'Portlandia' Duo Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein Discuss the Secrets to the Cult Show's Success". Interview with Marlow Stern, www.thedailybeast.com. February 27, 2014.

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• [On her collaboration with Adolph Green:] We stare at each other. We meet, whether or not we have a project, just to keep up a continuity of working. There are long periods when nothing happens, and it's just boring and disheartening. But we have a theory that nothing's wasted, even those long days of staring at one another. You sort of have to believe that, don't you? That you had to go through all that to get to the day when something did happen.

  Betty Comden

  Believe, Creativity, Long

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• What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work?

  Brad Gooch

  Education, Teaching, Cutting

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• I had taken some of my solo music into the record label. They didn't really care for the direction I was moving in and I found it really disheartening. They wanted a pop hit, which I understand in terms of making money. I get that. But what they were going to ask of me was something I wasn't prepared to deliver and I felt kind of trapped. I just stopped writing. I just stopped. It was stifling.

  Shirley Manson

  Moving, Taken, Writing

  "Shirley Manson: Rock Star Terminator". Interview with Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna, www.suicidegirls.com. November 11, 2008.

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