Depressing famous quotes

You may feel depressed, but it can't be so depressing that you can't move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they are elated about expressing their depression!
-- Aaron Copland

#Depressing #Moving #People

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

#Depressing #Real #Men

The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Depressing #Party #Exercise

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
-- Adriana Lima

#Depressing #Money #Thinking

Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.
-- Akhenaton

#Depressing #Strive #Method

He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
-- Alain de Botton

#Depressing #Mean #Expectations

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

#Depressing #People #Grandfather

It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice.
-- Albert Einstein

#Depressing #Time #Atoms

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

#Depressing #Powerful #War

Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.
-- Aloe Blacc

#Song #Depressing #Thinking

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

#Depressing #Blame #Praise

I love depressing movies and depressing books.
-- Amy Sedaris

#Depressing #Book

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

#Depressing #Ideas #Going Out

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.
-- Andrew Garfield

#Depressing #Two #Guitar

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

#Depressing #Thinking #Self

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

#Depressing #Cynical #Said

Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not.
-- Ann Demeulemeester

#Fashion #Depressing #Yellow

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 #Depressing #Home

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.
-- Anselm Kiefer

#Depressing #Political

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
-- Anton Chekhov

#Being Yourself #Depressing #Insulting

It is a depressing business talking to journalist.
-- Antony Gormley

#Depressing #Talking #Journalist

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.
-- Ariel Gore

#Depressing #Moments #Behinds

The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
-- Arthur C. Clarke

#Depressing #Communication #Mean

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Life #Depressing #Sick

What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Dream #Depressing #People

Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Depressing #Errors #Today

Have you ever Googled yourself? I did, most depressing thing ever. People have websites hoping I die at 38.
-- Artie Lange

#Depressing #People #Most Depressing

It might be depressing, but it's also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save everyone on the planet from going hungry, living in poverty or allowed basic human rights. But consider the other side of this: there are people in this world who truly WOULD do all of these things for everyone if only they could. There is hope after all.
-- Ashly Lorenzana

#Depressing #Rights #People

We either misdirect or depress great amounts of energy in order to keep ourselves from feeling pain, including what we feel in the moment and being who we are in the moment.
-- Barbara Brennan

#Depressing #Pain #Order

You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and hoped I did not appear too much that kind of person to others. Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.
-- Barbara Pym

#Depressing #Littles #Too Much

You know, when I was in college, there was a big debate: Do unions raise wages? Well, with regard to industrial unions, there were arguments back and forth -- international competition. It is now clear, I think, that whether or not you think unions raised wages 50 years ago, the absence of unions and their weakness that is inflicted by anti-union public policy depresses wages. The fact is that people who are not represented, in the service industries in particular, are the victims of policies which depress their wages.
-- Barney Frank

#Depressing #College #Thinking

If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.
-- Ben Affleck

#Depressing #Thinking #Hollywood

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

#Depressing #Thinking #Laughing

People, they love blood. They love action. Not this talky, depressing, philosophical bullshit.
-- Birdman

#Depressing #Philosophical #Blood

Life, like any other exciting story, is bound to have painful and scary parts, boring and depressing parts, but it's a brilliant story, and it's up to us how it will turn out in the end.
-- Bo Lozoff

#Life #Depressing #Scary

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
-- Boethius

#Depressing #Men #Heaven

If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Depressing #Disappointment #Feelings

When we are able to receive life's challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and depressing.
-- Brenda Shoshanna

#Depressing #Interesting #Challenges

Dealing with ads is depressing. You don’t make anyone’s life better by making advertisements work better.
-- Brian Acton

#Depressing #Advertisements #Ads

If the numbers mean anything, they tell us that vastly more life is left in the reviled internal-combustion engine than any of the blue-state lefties could imagine. First, that madman Bush wins, and now this news. How depressing.
-- Brock Yates

#Depressing #Mean #Winning

The prospects were depressing: Adulthood meant that I'd have to stop having fun and do something I didn't really want to do for the rest of my life – which was apparently a considerable chunk of time.
-- Bruce Campbell

#Depressing #Fun #Want

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me. I use direct sound, mono not stereo. Just direct sound, so for every shot there are only two sources. Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.
-- Bruno Dumont

#Depressing #Two #Space

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.
-- Bruno Dumont

#Depressing #Space #Use

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

#Depressing #Thinking #Creative

International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.
-- C. V. Wedgwood

#Depressing #Politics #Study

What art should be about,' they will say, 'is revealing exquisite and resonant truths about the human condition.' Well, to be honest - no, it shouldn’t. I mean, it can occasionally, if it wants to; but really, how many penetrating insights to human nature do you need in one lifetime? Two? Three? Once you’ve realised that no one else has a clue what they’re doing, either, and that love can be totally pointless, any further insights into human nature just start getting depressing really.
-- Caitlin Moran

#Depressing #Art #Mean

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
-- Carl Hiaasen

#Depressing #Writing #Hands

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 #Depressing #Educational

Now I'm searching for a slightly overweight, single, childless woman who doesn't have a date and isn't too depressing to be around. It's getting harder to find a girlfriend than a boyfriend.
-- Cathy Guisewite

#Friends #Depressing #Girlfriend

Holly smiled weakly. Gerry would know exactly how she was feeling, he would know exactly what to say and he would know exactly what to do. He would give her one of his famous hugs and all her problems would melt away. She grabbed a pillow from her bed and hugged it tight. She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone. And the depressing thing was that she couldn't imagine ever embracing anyone the same way again.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Depressing #Giving #Hollies

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 #Depressing #Writing

I'm only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather uplifting, actually, since I find the sort of blind optimism and empty laughter of a great deal of "contemporary culture" to be more depressing than something that admits to a potential for disappointment and a gnawing sense of existential mockery.
-- Chris Ware

#Uplifting #Depressing #Laughter

In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place
-- Christine Baranski

#Depressing #New York

Nothing is quite as depressing as depression.
-- Claire Weekes

#Depressing

What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women. The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible. In the same manner the capitalists use child labour to depress women's wages and the work of machines to depress all human labour.
-- Clara Zetkin

#Depressing #Children #Two

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

#Country #Depressing #Politics

The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into the upper lip of a salmon, drag him endlessly around the water until he loses his strength, pull him to the bank, hit him on the head with a stone, and you may well become fisherman of the year. Shoot.the salmon and you'll never be asked again.
-- Clement Freud

#Depressing #Animal #Years

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 #Depressing #College

Is the depressing part that he's only half right - it's not that she doesn't need rescuing but that nobody else will be able to do it? She has always somehow known that she is the one who will have to rescue herself. Or maybe what's depressing is that this knowledge seems like it should make life easier, and instead it makes it harder.
-- Curtis Sittenfeld

#Depressing #Half #Able

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

#Depressing #Confused #Smart

My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.
-- Dan Savage

#Running #Depressing #Dad

Unfortunately, I think I'm going to be typecast in Hollywood as the kid who can cry. I don't like putting audiences through those emotional ups and downs. I don't want people to think Dana Hill is so depressing all she does is cry. But the parts are so good, I can't turn them down.
-- Dana Hill

#Depressing #Kids #Emotional

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

#Depressing #Jobs #Wages

I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
-- Daniel Gillies

#Depressing #Rain #Air

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

#Depressing #Discipline #Complaining

I knew you could find a certain relief in begging God, it had helped me, but on the other hand, God never answered directly and that was always depressing.
-- Darcey Steinke

#Depressing #Hands #Relief

Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Dave Barry

#Dream #Depressing #Men

I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.
-- David Alan Grier

#Depressing #Home #Clothes

And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of water? Is it because science flatters no courtier, mingles in no political strife? ... Can we behold unmoved the science of England, the vital principle of her arts, struggling for existence, the meek and unarmed victim of political strife?
-- David Brewster

#Depressing #Art #Struggle

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

#Depressing #Law #Orthodoxy

The revival of consumers saving their money for retirement - rather than expecting their homes to provide the cushion - added with 'move down' buyers will depress real-estate prices.
-- David I. Rozenberg

#Depressing #Retirement #Real

Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.
-- David R. Brower

#Depressing #Fun #World

It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize that I was fooled into thinking I'd written the story. I hadn't-I had just typed for a long time. So then I have to carve out a story from the 25 or so pages. It's in there somewhere-but I have to find it. I'll then write a third, fourth, and fifth draft, and so on.
-- David Sedaris

#Depressing #Writing #Thinking

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

#Depressing #Fun #Looks

You have an amazing ability to depress me sometimes, you know that?" "I try my best.
-- Derek Landy

#Depressing #Trying #Sometimes

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

#Depressing #Men #Ugly

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

#Running #Depressing #Religion

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

#Depressing #School #Kids

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
-- Donald Rumsfeld

#Depressing #Peace #War

The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and discouraging place to look.
-- Donna VanLiere

#Dream #Depressing #Tunnels

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 #Depressing #Games

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!
-- Dr. Seuss

#Depressing #Being Alone #You Like It

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

#Depressing #Problem #Like You

There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you up if you don't.
-- E.F. Benson

#Depressing #Cheer #World

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?
-- Edith Head

#Depressing #Musical #Today

There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
-- Edward Abbey

#Depressing #Obscene

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.
-- Elayne Boosler

#Depression #Country #Depressing

We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)
-- Elie Wiesel

#Depressing #People #Stories

I don't like to watch myself. For the most part, I find it weird. It depresses me; I'm very critical.
-- Elizabeth Reaser

#Depressing #Watches #Critical

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

#Depressing #Ambition #Weakness

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

#Depressing #Play #Drug

What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
-- Ellen Glasgow

#Depressing #Mediocrity #Way

Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that's going to stick in somebody's memory. But it doesn't describe it. So 'depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.
-- Elliott Smith

#Depressing #Memories #Sadness

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.
-- Elliott Smith

#Depressing #Guitar #Play

I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.
-- Elton John

#Depressing #Thinking #Musician

I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean, it's true.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Depressing #Mean #Hair

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
-- Epictetus

#Depressing #Pain

I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
-- Erica Jong

#Depressing #Fighting #Winning

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 #Depressing #Artist

A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.
-- Etta James

#Depressing #Thinking #People