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• To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.

  Albert Einstein

  Overcoming, Doe, Helping

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• The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and discouraging place to look.

  Donna VanLiere

  Dream, Tunnels, Giving

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• Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if we even liked one another anymore.

  Lauren Groff

  Girl, Lunch, Kindergarten

  Lauren Groff (2011). “Delicate Edible Birds: And Other Stories”, p.12, Random House

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• We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hate, Thinking, Enemy

  Bertrand Russell (1971). “Ladislas Reymont: Romain Rolland ; Bertrand Russell”

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• Everyone carries an atmosphere about him. It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing. It may make a little spot of the world a sweeter, better, safer place to live in; or it may make it harder for those to live worthily and beautifully who dwell within its circle.

  J.R. Miller

  Circles, Atmosphere, World

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• I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.

  Jim Butcher

  Thinking, Matter, Taught

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.104, Penguin

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• You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and hoped I did not appear too much that kind of person to others. Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.

  Barbara Pym

  Littles, Too Much, Kind

  Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.39, Penguin

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• I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.

  Frederick Douglass

  Sad, Country, Light

  Frederick Douglass (1994). “Autobiographies”, p.409, Library of America

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• You should never pick up a newspaper when you're feeling good, because every newspaper has a special department, called the Bummer Desk, which is responsible for digging up depressing front-page stories.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Feel Good, Feelings

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up”, p.21, Ballantine Books

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• Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization.

  Victor Hugo

  Struggle, Eye, Animal

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• It's difficult for the public to realize how powerful the mind is, and how much pain the mind can give you. When you're depressed, it's as though this committee has taken over your mind, leaving you one depressing thought after the other. You don't shave, you don't shower, you don't brush your teeth. You don't care. The one thing I did do, I still ate a little bit. But I didn't have much of an appetite. I know a lot of people who say they didn't eat at all.

  Rod Steiger

  Pain, Powerful, Taken

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• If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.

  Ben Affleck

  Thinking, Hollywood, Ifs

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• Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?

  Heath Ledger

  Doe, Batman Dark Knight, Dark Night

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• I find it depressing that people think you have to be on drugs to watch [my stuff], that’s a cop out, use your brain, use your imagination.

  Noel Fielding

  Thinking, People, Imagination

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• It's that time of year again, April 15, taxes. I know it's depressing, but just remember, you're paying for roads, bridges, hospitals, and an army to keep the nation free. Unfortunately that nation is Afghanistan.

  Bill Maher

  Army, Remember You, Remembers You

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• I've been watching a lot of A&E's 'Intervention.' I know that's sort of depressing, but I love watching it.

  Vanessa Bayer

  Intervention, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am informed that 5,000 cockroaches were used in the filming of Joe's Apartment. That depresses me, but not as much as the news that none of them were harmed during the production.

  Roger Ebert

  Cockroaches, News, Used

  Roger Ebert (2013). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.206, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.

  Janet Jackson

  Spiritual, Garden, Water

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• Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that's going to stick in somebody's memory. But it doesn't describe it. So 'depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.

  Elliott Smith

  Memories, Sadness, Thinking

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• I have got so low that I have asked to be hospitalized and for deep narcosis (sleep). I cannot stand being awake. The pain is too much... Something has happened to me, this vital spark has stopped burning - I go to a dinner table now and I don't say a word, just sit there like a dodo. Normally I am the centre of attention, keeps the conversation going, - so that is depressing in itself. It's like another person taking over, very strange. The most important thing I say is 'good evening' and then I go quiet.

  Spike Milligan

  Depression, Pain, Sleep

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• I've just made a cancer drama, called 'Now Is Good,' directed by Ol Parker and starring Dakota Fanning. We filmed in Brighton and it's about a girl dying of leukemia, although it's not as depressing as it sounds.

  Kaya Scodelario

  Girl, Cancer, Drama

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• I have a lot of friends who are getting married. I try to avoid talking to them about their sex lives now 'cause it's so depressing. One guy told me it had been six months since he had gotten to second base with his wife. Yeah, I don't know which one was more pathetic: that he used the phrase 'second base' or that he hadn't been there in six months?

  Ted Alexandro

  Sex, Talking, Wife

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• Depression makes me hate the world, but it gives me a million things to think.

  Richard Hancock

  Hate, Thinking, Giving

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• I don't like mansions. They depress me. In fact, I even feel sorry for a rich husband and wife living in a forty-room mansion. They're obviously searching for something they don't have, such as happiness or the respect of others.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Money, Sorry, Husband

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• I don't want to get too dippy about all this. If you take the view of the scientist and everything is in a state of vibration, then every note is a vibration, which has a certain frequency, and you know that if you put 40 beats into a frequency it's going to be the same note every time. You take that into infrasound and people can be made to be sick, actually killed. Taking it the other way, not to be too depressing, what about euphoria, etc., and what about consciousness being totally... no, I won't go into that one. Time warps.

  Jimmy Page

  Views, People, Sick

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