Depressing Quotes

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

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

I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.

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.

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

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

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

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

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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?'

Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.

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.

What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.

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.

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.

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.

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.