Top 1200 Very Depressing Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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."

I'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.

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.

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 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.

It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.

I just got back from Hawaii on Saturday, and it's so depressing how quickly all the stresses and the stressful energy of L.A. comes bombarding back. Everyone's in a rush, you're annoying everyone, get out of their way, everyone's most important than you are, has got somewhere more important to be - very draining town. But I still love it in many ways. I wouldn't leave California. I think it's a fantastic state, if you can't be in Hawaii all the time.

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?

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In 'Notting Hill,' I was part of a whole plot line over six scenes that was completely taken out. That was rather 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.

Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.

I love to laugh and dance. That's kind of my nature, though I end up always playing these angry, depressing characters.

What happened in the 80's was that all the men died of AIDS. That was a particularly depressing time because so many people passed away and it was a very desperate and lonely time, so I think a lot of people felt that we were somehow, unreceived. Not only by the disease but also by the public image of the disease. It really gave homophobia a real shot in the arm and changed the way people viewed gays, queers. It became an entirely different atmosphere.

Because the oils work in a different way from antibiotics, they do not have the usual side effects, and they tend to stimulate the immune system instead of depressing it.

Bob Dylan will be thirty years old this month..." "That's the most depressing thing I've ever heard.

As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense.

'New Moon' was such a serious, depressing movie that people felt we had lost a little humor of the books.

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.

With the internet we are facing more or less a very similar story. It does offer virtually limitless access to entertainment and for many people living in extremely depressing conditions in authoritarian states, it does provide a vehicle for getting by. For many oppositional movements, the internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more difficult in the long run.

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.

I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing.

As a journalist, I have spent years reporting on often difficult and depressing conflicts, on poverty, and the inhuman way we sometimes treat each other.

When I had the heart attack, it was pretty depressing. I was really angry. I just couldn't find anything to feel good about.

I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.

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.

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

I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and that's what I really loved about 'King Kong.'

A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.

Have you ever been called an Islamist? How about a jihadist or a terrorist? Extremist, maybe? Welcome to my world. It's pretty depressing.

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.

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

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.

I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.

Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.

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.

Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.

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.

Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.

There is nothing funny about aging: It is rotten and depressing. Anyone who tells you otherwise just hasn't been paying attention.

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

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.

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

While at first it seemed like a depressing realization, I soon realized that makeup is powerful - it's every woman's secret weapon.

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.

There are so many negative things out there on television and movies right now. Even the daily news, it gets depressing.

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.

Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

One of the most depressing things about President Donald Trump's decision to roll back elements of the Cuba opening is how predictable it was.

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 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.