Top 587 Depressing Quotes & Sayings

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

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotsky and father Blum and father Franco is just commencing now and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing. England is the only country now that has not got one and so they are more cheerful there than anywhere. It is a long time now that they have not had any fathering and so their cheerfulness is increasing.

Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people and depressing elephants

I don't really do sad, depressing songs.

These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant, Also it is a duty, we should smile as well as submitting To the purpose of One Above who is experimenting With various mixtures of human character which goes best, All is interesting for him it is exciting, but not for us. There I go again. Smile, smile, and get some work to do Then you will be practically unconscious without positively having to go.

Going to rehearsals was too depressing, and missing rehearsals was also depressing, so it was like a vicious circle.

As long as movies are depressing, life isn't.

I think it is kind of depressing how few female filmmakers there are. I think it is in general depressing how few women there are in ... important positions in society

For me, I'm a fan of really dark, depressing stuff.

A winter without snow seems depressing, lacking.

I have absolutely no interest in creating depressing images.

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.

It is good to get goals, but it is quite depressing if we don't win.

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

So few people did good in their lives. It was depressing.

Men have an easier time buying bathing suits. Women have two types: depressing and more depressing. Men have two types: nerdy and not nerdy.

The free-from aisle is the most depressing place in the supermarket.

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

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.

It's low-key depressing when you're not winning.

80% of everything I've experienced since the Verve has been depressing.

I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

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.

In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.

I love depressing movies and depressing books.

I don't want to read a book that's depressing.

When I go to work, I don't want to make depressing, gritty, urban stories that are depressing to watch. I want to give people something to enjoy. When people think I'm a control freak and an ogre - which I am - it's only because I want my work to be accessible and Everyman, in a way.

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.

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

'Mask' wasn't the version that I wanted when it was originally released. It made money, but it would have made a lot more money. My version was a lot less depressing - tragic, but a lot less depressing.

I'm so optimistic, it's depressing.

We live in a very classist society, and it's sad and depressing.

Philadelphia is a depressing intellectual slum

When you don't get hits it's depressing.

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

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

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

Documentaries are my favorite thing, and the more depressing, the better.

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

Sometimes I'll feel down and realise it's because of a depressing plot.

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

Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.

It was depressing, very 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.

For me, I'm a fan of really dark, depressing stuff. Even something like The Wire, which can be hugely depressing and really serious, the bits I always remember are the jokes, you know?

I don't ever mean my pictures to be depressing - I don't believe in making depressing pictures.

Nothing is quite as depressing as depression.

But the thought of moving on from something I never had is depressing.

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

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery’s version of the Barack Obama “Hope” poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama’s Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists’ Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

Christmas is cheery for some people and depressing for others.

Other niggas' situations, they are all depressing.

It is a depressing business talking to journalist.

It's depressing to think what it would mean to be impaired down the neck.

My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

Employees hate meetings because they reveal that self-promotion, sycophancy, dissimulation and constantly talking nonsense in a loud confident voice are more impressive than merely being good at the job - and it is depressing to lack these skills but even more depressing to discover one's self using them.

Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.

When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing.

The most depressing thing is the political slogan: there is no alternative. But there is.