Depressing Quotes - Page 2

• Now, I'm getting a little older, got more responsibility, I don't need to be depressed.

  Noah Hathaway

  Responsibility, Needs, Littles

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• Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Peace, War, Views

  "The unknown Afghan body count" by James Denselow, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2010.

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• I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

  Paul Fussell

  Depression, Optimistic, Optimism

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• I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening. I like seconds, and more, and lots of conversation, and I've always hated the idea that in a restaurant an evening just ends. I find that incredibly depressing.

  Amy Sedaris

  Ideas, Going Out, Evening

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• If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Sad, Running, Religion

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• What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.

  Dave Barry

  Beer, Being Sad, Feeling Sad

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.1, Ballantine Books

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• Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Inspirational, Anticipation, Influence

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.346

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• If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

  Lynda Barry

  Depression, Trying, Looks

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• For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Depression, Artist, Literature

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• Some men just want to watch the world burn

  Michael Caine

  Crush, Dark, Men

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• Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Jobs, Wages, Want

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• In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.

  Christine Baranski

  New York

  Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. June 7, 2006.

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• Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Life, Sick, Love Life

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• Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

  Robert Evans

  Creativity, Principles, Architecture

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• I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems.

  Dyan Cannon

  Problem, Like You, Discouraged

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• Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Sad, Inspiration, Health

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• If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

  Rollo May

  Ifs

  Rollo May (1973). “Paulus: Reminiscences of a Friendship”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Without art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

  Wayne Coyne

  Art, So Sad, Communicate

  "Straight from the Lip" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2003.

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• Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

  Dorothy Rowe

  Inspirational, Depression, Psychology

  Dorothy Rowe (2003). “Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison”, p.1, Psychology Press

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• Sadly, there are some fine Christian people who believe that the only way to advance the gospel is to pray for revival and nothing else. You don't know if they have any non-Christian friends or if they have ever shared the gospel with anybody in the last 30 years. It's depressing going to prayer meetings like that. I don't want to pray like that.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Prayer, Believe

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It's what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Spring, People, Mind

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.150, A&C Black

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• Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

  H. R. Giger

  Thinking, Blood, People

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• It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

  Ann Beattie

  Cynical, Said, Known

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• I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

  Ella Maillart

  Ambition, Weakness, Literature

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