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• it is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.

  Angela Thirkell

  Thinking, Self, Dare

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• International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Politics, Study, Foreign Policy

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• In the midst of depressing care and labor I turn constantly to divine Love for guidance, and find rest.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Care, Guidance, Divine

  Mary Baker Eddy (1972). “Christian Science Sentinel”

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• if you play the numbers game and become obsessed with it, as so many in Hollywood are, sooner or later you have to face the depressing fact that if you are number one the only place you can go is down.

  Doris Day

  Success, Numbers, Games

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• It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Evil, Life Is

  Freya Stark (2011). “Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq”, p.159, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.

  Marie Corelli

  Self, World, Moral

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• It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Mean, Facts

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

  Leonard Cohen

  Depression, Psychics, Landscape

  The International Herald Tribune, November 4, 1988.

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• Mind is infinitely creative. And when it's not stuck, that's where the joy comes from. Something happens, and the way we think about it, understand it, see it, is actually hilarious, whereas before it used to depress us.

  Byron Katie

  Thinking, Creative, Joy

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Pages, Difficult, Passages

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• We can't allow ouselves to be depresses or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have a little bit of time in this world before death swallows us up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, People

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• There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats.

  Peter Hedges

  Toasts

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• Some people think reality must be constantly depressing, but I think reality is something you rise above.

  Liza Minnelli

  Reality, Thinking, People

  "Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer". Book by Emanuel Levy, April 14, 2009.

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• Having music in the schools, having art in the schools, having art in your life, should not be heroic. It should be every day. Having things we've paid for years ago and that we depend on kept up - our schools, our political institutions - should not be a heroic act. It should be part of our daily citizenship. The idea that we had to do this incredibly exhausting, two-year-long, very expensive, labor intensive, community-based action, is, one the one hand unbelievably great, and, on the other hand, really depressing.

  David Lang

  Art, School, Political

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• The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you...

  Rush Limbaugh

  Public Opinion, Tools, Shapes

  "'Skewed' Polls, ACORN, And Right-Wing Delusion" by Eric Boehlert, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2012.

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• The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's so depressing."

  Quentin Crisp

  Teacher, Book, Ballet

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, 1968.

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• Although one is not inclined to be timid or nervous, it is nevertheless a trifle depressing to receive letters full of expostulation and entreaty: 'If you are determined to commit suicide, why not come home and do so in a quiet lady-like manner?'

  Annie Smith Peck

  Suicide, Home, Why Not

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• In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged musicians who had clearly been on tour for decades, and they all looked haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I vowed to myself that I would never be that person. Flash forward 20 years and I found myself in Heathrow looking haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I decided I would rather spend my time staying home working on music and making dinner with friends, instead of spending six months in a hotel in a state of depressing suspended adolescence.

  Moby

  Home, Airports, Years

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• I hate the concept of the clog! It's fake, it's ugly, and it's not even comfortable! And I hate the whole concept of comfort! It's like when people say, 'Well, we're not really in love, but we're in a comfortable relationship.' You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you are too into comfort. 'Comfy'-that's one of the worst words! I just picture a woman feeling bad, with a big bottle of alcohol, really puffy. It's really depressing, but she likes her life because she has comfortable clogs.

  Christian Louboutin

  Hate, Ideas, People

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• Everybody has had the experience of something they love - whether it's a pop song or a painting or a movie - feeling so perfect to them that it's almost like it came from another planet. It has nothing to do with ordinary life, which is very plain. And there's something depressing about that in a way, because you feel like you're this small little human, and you feel like it has nothing to do with you.

  Will Sheff

  Song, Perfect, Feelings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is not athletic: he sees the futility of the pursuit of fame; the climate at times depresses him.

  Anais Nin

  Tired, Men, Athletic

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• Nothing is quite as depressing as depression.

  Claire Weekes

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• As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing.

  Moby

  People, Financial, Aspect

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• The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make existing batteries better.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Technology, Get Better, Trying

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• One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.

  David Hare

  Law, Downing Street, Orthodoxy

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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