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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
Everyone talks about how depressing Radiohead are. I don't hear it. They've created their own universe and it is dimly lit, but it's not inherently dark.
There is nothing funny about aging: It is rotten and depressing. Anyone who tells you otherwise just hasn't been paying attention.
I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.
There are so many negative things out there on television and movies right now. Even the daily news, it gets depressing.
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.
Why should women have to fit into child sizes in order to be considered desirable? That is both sick and depressing.
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.
I won't write every one of my personal experiences into songs as I think it could be a bit depressing - and its nice to not be too open.
I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.
One of the depressing things one realizes as one gets older is how much of one's tastes and attitudes are simply products of economic circumstance at the time.
'New Moon' was such a serious, depressing movie that people felt we had lost a little humor of the books.
Have you ever been called an Islamist? How about a jihadist or a terrorist? Extremist, maybe? Welcome to my world. It's pretty depressing.
I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books.
I think my music's kind of cold, but I don't know if it's related to the weather. It might be because it's always grey [in Montreal], it's very depressing.
I love to laugh and dance. That's kind of my nature, though I end up always playing these angry, depressing characters.
In 'Notting Hill,' I was part of a whole plot line over six scenes that was completely taken out. That was rather depressing.
The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's so depressing."
My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.
The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.
Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to be beautiful, but does it have to be this ugly?
The people on programmes like 'Made in Chelsea' just want to be celebrities. It's so depressing. No proper actor has that as a goal. I'm striving for longevity in my career.
A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It's boring, it's anti-social, it's unproductive and it's depressing.
PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.
Bob Dylan will be thirty years old this month..." "That's the most depressing thing I've ever heard.
There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat.
It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda.
I'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.
Although the story of George and Lennie in 'Of Mice and Men' ends on a depressing note, there is a peculiar aura of human dignity in it, a hint of redemption.
When I had the heart attack, it was pretty depressing. I was really angry. I just couldn't find anything to feel good about.
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.
There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.
I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and that's what I really loved about 'King Kong.'
Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.
I'm always trying to find the next comedian that just gives me something a little funny to combine with all of the depressing news that I'm processing.
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.
I hated 'The Lovely Bones'. I thought her vision of Heaven was amazingly uninspired and very depressing. The book was just tedious.
There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.
I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.
Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.
This is kind of a uniquely New York experience, but when you can't afford an apartment nicer than the place you're renting, there's something so inherently depressing about it.
A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.
I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.
You totally need to watch the news." "Can't." "Why?" "It's too depressing." "Right, because hanging with dead people isn't.
Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.
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.
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!
I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.
I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country that is under the thumb of a dictator.
I was reading some books by Michel Houellebecq, and the first thing that comes to mind is that they're really funny, all the ways they describe the most depressing things.
Endings of television shows are sometimes such depressing things. It's like you're not going to hang out with these people anymore, and that's bad enough.
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.
Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.
The actual thought of not really having a home was, for me, very depressing, and it was something that I was dealing with for quite some time.
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.
I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing.
While at first it seemed like a depressing realization, I soon realized that makeup is powerful - it's every woman's secret weapon.
