Very Depressing Quotes

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

  Victoria Legrand

  Depressing, Forever, Doe

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

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• It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice.

  Albert Einstein

  Depressing, Time, Atoms

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• Generally, it's not good to be engaged directly with the political system unless you are qualified. It`s a very depressing business, the way politics works. You get stuck into it, but then, at some point, you have to walk away. I had to walk away, because it's like this dark, black energy void. There are some people who have dedicated their lives to living in that energy void, but I can't do it. I just can't go there. It feels like you're treading water too much when you do. It's a crazy thing.

  Thom Yorke

  Depressing, Crazy, Dark

  "Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien". Interview with Chris Mincher, music.avclub.com. July 01, 2008.

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• It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or so, three stood out quite distinctly, head and shoulders above the rest of the herd: Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, and Bush’s America. At times when working on the three relevant chapters, I had to remind myself which chapter was the one in front of me: the parallels between the three regimes, in terms of their vigorous attempts to trample honest science underfoot, are as horrifically close as that.

  John Grant

  Depressing, Past, Russia

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• When you're out there in America, meeting with regular people, it's a pretty mellow, relaxed, kind-hearted country. The direction from the top, from the President, is following mean-spirited tendencies: fear and undue caution and distrust of the other, so it's very depressing.

  George Saunders

  Country, Depressing, Mean

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I had a very depressing response because I realized that these were my own people, these were Negroes throwing eggs at me. I'm concerned about the fact that maybe all of us have contributed to this by not working harder to get rid of the conditions, the poverty, the social isolation, and all of the conditions that cause individuals to respond like this.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Depressing, Eggs, People

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Decline and Fall was a very depressing Evelyn Waugh novel, I think it was his first. I didn't get it at all, and then I got to love Waugh. And I think that maybe "Cosmopolitans" has a bit of an Evelyn Waugh vibe to it at some point.

  Whit Stillman

  Depressing, Fall, Thinking

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda.

  Bassem Youssef

  Depressing, People, Style

  "'Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

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• The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

  Mark Kozelek

  Depressing, Challenges, Stressful

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I think the biggest pushback comes from people who perceive me to be a threat. Having bloggers who are dedicated to making up false information about you, having anonymous people write nasty emails and letters, having organizations file legal requests for your work-related emails, and all the other things that happen can be very depressing and discouraging.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Depressing, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think my music's kind of cold, but I don't know if it's related to the weather. It might be because it's always grey [in Montreal], it's very depressing.

  Grimes

  Depressing, Thinking, Weather

  "Always Waiting For The Shivers To Happen: Grimes Interviewed". Interview with Angus Finlayson, thequietus.com. May 25, 2012.

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• I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.

  David Zucker

  Life, Depressing, Believe

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

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• Over the years I've never written or made movies about political themes 'cause while they do have current critical importance, in the large, large scheme of things, only the big questions matter and the answers to those big questions are very, very depressing.

  Woody Allen

  Depressing, Years, Political

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• Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Depressing, Men, Minutes

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• I once got a call from a bank, asking me to compute a mortgage, since their computers were down. This was a very depressing moment.

  Richard A. Falk

  Depressing, Science, Asking

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• The process of making films is so technically demanding that it's a distraction. You don't spend your time thinking about the philosophical content, which is often very depressing.

  Woody Allen

  Depressing, Philosophical, Thinking

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• I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.

  Erica Jong

  Depressing, Fighting, Winning

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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• This whole issue of limits to growth, which provides a psychological, as well as a physical, cap on potential expansion of activity and awareness, has had a very depressing effect on many people.... I don't for a moment think that there's any concept which anyone's working with now which will be followed as a straightforward scenario. But the idea embodied in concepts such as space colonization or space industrialization, or availability of nonterrestrial resources, is fundamental, and it will change the way in which people look at the future.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Depressing, Thinking, Availability

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• Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.

  Claude Monet

  Depressing, Art, Lovers

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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