Depressing Quotes - Page 14

• I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Song, Comforting, World

  "Home entertainment". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2002.

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• I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.

  John Cusack

  War, Dark, Cold

  "The Best of Awkward Question Time". Interview With Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. December 30, 2010.

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• My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

  Roger Ebert

  Good Movie, Motto, Bad Movies

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.282, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.

  Roger Ebert

  Couple, Disappointment, Perfect

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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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• When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.

  William Glasser

  Believe, Feelings, Victim

  "Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom". Book by William Glasser (p. 70), 1997.

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• It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.

  Richard E. Grant

  Christmas, Winter, Years

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• It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really fun stuff. And then when I'm really happy, I write really depressing stuff.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Fun, Writing, Hard Times

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• We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?

  Edith Head

  Musical, Today, Lasts

  Edith Head, Paddy Calistro (1983). “Edith Head's Hollywood”, E P Dutton

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• The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Communication, Mean, Wonderful

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.73, RosettaBooks

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• If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Lonely, Writing, Simple

  Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

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• When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they’re locked into jobs they hate; that they’re broke; that they spend every night watching videos; that they’re fifteen pounds overweight; that they no longer listen to new ideas. It’s profoundly depressing.

  Douglas Coupland

  Jobs, Hate, Night

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)

  Elie Wiesel

  People, Stories, World

  Elie Wiesel (1960). “Night”, Bantam

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• Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat.

  Tao Lin

  Hilarious, Hands, People

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• Good cheer is a state of mind or mood that promotes happiness or joy... With God’s help, good cheer permits us to rise above the depressing present or difficult circumstances. It is a process of positive reassurance and reinforcement. It is sunshine when clouds block the light.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Cheer, Block, Sunshine

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