Depressing Quotes - Page 21

• The streets of a modern city are depressing. They are so aimless and so weak in their lines and their masses, that the mind and senses jog on their way like passengers in a train with blinds down in an overcrowded carriage.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Cities, Mind, Lines

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises must consent to limit his imagination to a depressing casuistry regarding the formal requirements of modernism.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Games, Imagination

  Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.71, University of Chicago Press

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• Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it or you don't. You can't attain it. There are terrible forms of professional humor, the humorists' humor. That can be awful. It depresses me because it is artificial. You can't always be humorous, but a professional humorist must. That is a sad phenomenon.

  Heinrich Böll

  Humorous, Awful, Form

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• It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion. Nothing is more luxurious than this. It is a game and a good game, at least for me; one of the few games which make life, difficult and depressing as it is sometimes, a little more interesting.

  Max Beckmann

  Art, Luxury, Games

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.304, University of Chicago Press

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• We need not seek our own best selves, and in the meantime we inoculate ourselves against the viruses of age and idealism, which, as the advertising agencies well know, depress sales and sour the feasts of consumption.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Agency, Self, Viruses

  "Waiting For The Barbarians" by Lewis H. Lapham, (p. 197), 1997.

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• A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his shelves constantly empty. It is not the books that go out that worry him. It is the stay-at-home volumes that perplex and depress him.

  S. R. Ranganathan

  Book, Home, Law

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• When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits, it depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can't be real. It ought to be but it isn't. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn't say it.

  Ada Leverson

  Real, Men, Giving

  Ada Leverson (2012). “Love at Second Sight”, p.100, tredition

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• 'Comfy,' that's one of the worst words! I just picture a woman feeling bad, with a big bottle of alcohol, really puffy.

  Christian Louboutin

  Alcohol, Feelings, Bottles

  "Stuart Weitzman: Nudist makes him stars' favourite shoe designer of 2014" by Hannah Marriott, www.theguardian.com. December 24, 2014.

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• I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

  Steve Carell

  Ideas, Long, No Idea

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The surest sign that you're working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don't complain very much about doing what it takes.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Discipline, Complaining, Spirit

  Danielle LaPorte (2014). “The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul”, p.39, Sounds True

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• The very things in your life that seem
  to be depressing and oppressing you
  right now are going to be the means
  by which you set yourself free.

  James Lecesne

  Mean, Right Now, Seems

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• When you see your male counterparts living a completely different lifestyle, I think it would be quite depressing! So no, it's not for me.

  Victoria Pendleton

  Thinking, Males, Different

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• I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

  Townes Van Zandt

  Song, Writing, Guy

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• One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.

  N. T. Wright

  Real, Taken, Purpose

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• You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.

  Chris Terrio

  Lonely, Writing, Voice

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• They are quite hopeless - drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips.

  Thomas Beecham

  Hopeless, Doleful, Drooling

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• Anything is depressing if you dwell on it. The fact that religion could end the world? Yeah, I guess that could be considered depressing. But considering that there's also a lot to laugh at, I think it's a good balance.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Laughing, Balance

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It is a depressing business talking to journalist.

  Antony Gormley

  Talking, Journalist

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• The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.

  Simon Schama

  Golf, Decay, Want

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• All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.

  Dieter Rams

  Men, Ugly, Too Much

  "Bring on the butlers" by Stephen Bayley, www.theguardian.com. September 09, 2007.

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• I guess I have a gift for expressing pedestrian tastes. In a way, it's kind of depressing.

  Bill Watterson

  Way, Taste, Kind

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!

  Dan Ariely

  Confused, Smart, Lunch

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• There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Knowledge, Years

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.137, Penguin

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• Night Watch itself is a very Russian movie. Its impossible to imagine this kind of movie somewhere else: a movie with a depressing ending, a lot of inexplicable storylines, strange characters. Its a Russian reflection of American film culture.

  Timur Bekmambetov

  Character, Night, Reflection

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• Are people who have been crazy held to unfair standards?Of course, but it's not in your best interest to complain. If you're paranoid and people are looking at you funny it's best to let it pass. Psychotic people have an uncanny knack for making their own worst dreams come true. Depressing things happen to depressed people way beyond what you would expect from random distribution.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Dream, Crazy, People

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