Depressing Quotes - Page 22

• Watching National League pitchers trying to hit or even bunt is depressing.

  Ron Blomberg

  League, Trying, Pitcher

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• I dislike nothing more than finding fault with a man's nature or talent; it only depresses and worries and does no good; one cannot add a cubit to one's stature, all striving and struggling are useless there, so one has to be silent about it, and let the responsibility rest with God.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Struggle, Responsibility, Men

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• Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?

  Wilkie Collins

  Country, Eye, Mind

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “The Woman in White: Wilkie Collins Top Collections”, p.432, 谷月社

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• I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!

  Walt Whitman

  Running, Stars, Believe

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XXXI”

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• Just don't do things that depress you. I realized if it depresses me, then I just don't want to get close to it. If it brings me down, I just really can't get into it.

  John Currin

  Want, Bring Me Down, I Realized

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth while, depresses and crushes at the same time the spark of genius in the Negro by making him feel that his race does not amount to much and never will measure up to the standards of other peoples.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Crush, Educational, Race

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.12, Book Tree

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• In order to learn true humility (I use this expression to describe the state of mind under discussion), it is good for a person to withdraw from the turmoil of the world (we see that Christ withdrew when the people wanted to proclaim him king as well as when he had to walk the thorny path), for in life either the depressing or the elevating impression is too dominant for a true balance to come about. Here, of course, individuality is very decisive.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Kings, Humility, Expression

  "Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers: Autobiographical, 1829-1848". Book by Søren Kierkegaard and Gregor Malantschuk, p. 33, Journals 1A 68 (July 29, 1835), 1978.

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• It's depressing a little when you don't see outside the tour bus and underground in a stadium. If you go outside near the venue there are lots of fans everywhere so you can't just have a minute to enjoy the sunshine alone and think.

  LeCrae

  Sunshine, Thinking, Fans

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• The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics

  Clare Short

  Country, Politics, States

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• It's not like Windows users don't have any power. I think they are happy with Windows, and that's an incredibly depressing thought

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Window, Users

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• There's a certain kind of neurological makeup that goes along with being a writer, and having been in the room with a few other writers at the same time, it's rather wearing to be around. And it does - there is a kind of hypervigilance about it. Unfortunately it's got disadvantages. If you turn that hypervigilance on yourself and, for instance, whether or not you have a pimple on the end of your nose, it can get really depressing.

  David Foster Wallace

  Makeup, Doe, Noses

  Source: news.stlpublicradio.org

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• It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

  Anton Chekhov

  Death, Men, Dying

  "On the Road". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1886.

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• Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and, in truth, our own private interest concurs in it, as it is making ourselves so many friends, instead of so many enemies.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friends, People, Enemy

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.199

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• I think a lot of people take a scholarly approach where they feel like you're supposed to study things that depress you.

  John Currin

  Thinking, People, Study

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical. Canonise 'business success,' and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!

  Ida Tarbell

  Business, Hero, Men

  Ida M. Tarbell (2012). “The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version”, p.224, Courier Corporation

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• All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

  Julie Andrews

  Love, Heartbreak, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Funny, Friendship, Crazy

  Rita Mae Brown (1989). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, Bantam

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• I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.

  Joanne Woodward

  Block, School, Self

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• If the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstandin g without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Blame, Praise, Calvary

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• Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

  Mike Ditka

  Effort, Tragedy, Talent

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• My father worked for the same firm for 12 years. They fired him and replaced him with a tiny gadget that does everything my father does, only much better. The depressing thing is my mother ran out and bought one

  Woody Allen

  Mother, Time, Father

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• I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Thinking, Fans, Want

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• The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

  Albert Ellis

  Love, Relationship, Inspiring

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• We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, War, Struggle

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.111, Broadway Books

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• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Romantic, I Miss You

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