Depressing Quotes - Page 3

• You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.

  David Spade

  Fun, Looks, Way

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

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• To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Joy, Scientist, Revelations

  H. P. Lovecraft (1999). “The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories”, p.321, Penguin

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• Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to.

  Michael Schenker

  Gold, Streaks, Very Depressed

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• I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.

  Zane Grey

  Hurt, Used, Effects

  Zane Grey, Lina Elise Grey, Candace C. Kant (2008). “Dolly & Zane Grey: Letters from a Marriage”, p.178, University of Nevada Press

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• It was depressing, ... I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Education, College, Challenges

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• There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

  Gertrude Stein

  Boyfriend, Father, Doubt

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.146, Vintage

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• If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.

  Elliott Smith

  Guitar, Play, Guy

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• Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.

  Merlin Olsen

  Book, Player, Firsts

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• No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

  William Ellery Channing

  Confidence, Attitude, Adversity

  "Self-Culture" (address), Boston, Mass., Sept. 1838

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• It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there.

  Jami Gertz

  Two, Years, Scary

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• God, I am afraid he won't give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me - it is all so terribly depressing.

  Eva Braun

  Giving, Today, Answers

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• Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?'

  Ellen Burstyn

  Play, Drug, Scripts

  Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down.

  Thom Mayne

  Description, Feels

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• This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.

  Alan Hovhaness

  People, Grandfather, Scots

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• To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Profound, Danger, Pessimist

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field... It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Writing, People, Trying

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• My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.

  Lee Krasner

  Depression, Consistency, Painful

  Robert Carleton Hobbs, Lee Krasner (1999). “Lee Krasner”, Harry N. Abrams

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• Depression is the inability to construct a future.

  Rollo May

  Sad, Depression, Future

  "Love and Will". Book by Rollo May, ch. 9, 1969.

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• I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Being Happy, Being Depressed, Kind

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  Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.

  Nicolas Cage

  Passion, Important, Looks

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• It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Funny, Depression

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• I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Drinking, Thinking, Down And

  "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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• There is a difference between broke and being poor. Being broke is a temporary economic condition, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind and a depressed condition of your spirit, and you must vow to never, ever be poor again.

  John Hope Bryant

  Motivational, Money, Differences

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• I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

  Dolly Parton

  School, Kids, Littles

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• It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Way, Ugly, Imagine

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