Depressing Quotes

• A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

  Jonathan Davis

  Depression, Thinking, People

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• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Betrayal

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.251, Univ of California Press

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• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

  Orson Welles

  Love, Life, Lonely

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• People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Sad, Strong

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• To perceive is to suffer.

  Aristotle

  Life, Depression, Education

  Aristotle (2004). “The Works of Aristotle: Aristotle on the parts & progressive motion of animals, the problems, on indivisible lines to which is added Thomas Taylor's The elements of the true arithmetic of infinites”

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• Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society... Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Depression, Mean, People

  "The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future" by Theodore J. Kaczynski, ("Control of Human Behavior", item 145), 1995.

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• Depression is rage spread thin.

  George Santayana

  Depression, Pain, Suffering

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• The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 24, 2014

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• When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

  Elayne Boosler

  Depression, Country, Strong Women

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• I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.

  Ned Vizzini

  Life, Sad, Depression

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• The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Wall, Humor

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• Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mind, Quality, Awareness

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• It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.

  Olivia Wilde

  Personality, Would Be, Models

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• A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

  Oscar Wilde

  Smile, Suicide, Simile

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people

  Marge Piercy

  People, Tree, Easy

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.68, Knopf

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• Hungry Hungry Hippos is so depressing. You continuously chomp away at those balls and you are alone and it's your birthday.'

  Thom Yorke

  Balls, Hungry, Hippo

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• I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival

  Gillian Flynn

  Believe, Danish, Pastries

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.117, Broadway Books

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• I have absolutely no interest in creating depressing images.

  Ryan McGinley

  Creating, Interest

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• That's a depressing and practical thought," Sam said. "I'd rather it was something magical.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Said, Practicals

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.890, Scholastic UK

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• So few people did good in their lives. It was depressing.

  Rick Riordan

  People

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• I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.

  Miranda July

  Way, Complicated, Inventing

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

  Woody Allen

  Death, Funny Life, Loneliness

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• I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?

  Carroll O'Connor

  Years, Voice, Sound

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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.

  Eggs, People, Poverty

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• The worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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