Depressing Quotes

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.
Jack Dee

Religion, Seriously, Took

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.
Nicholas Hoult

Work, Time, Try

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

Said, Often, Writer

It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them.
Eric Stoltz

Time, Good, War

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.
Clyde Tombaugh

Education, Living, Challenge

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

Pretty, Place, Early

I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like the song. It's a love song - kind of - but it's kind of depressing and dark.
Aubrey Plaza

Love, Mom, Dark

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.
Michelle Rodriguez

Work, Best, End

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

Someone, Evening, Find

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.
Jason Schwartzman

Alone, Hate, Game

It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there.
Jami Gertz

Him, Two, Around

I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
Lara Stone

Angry, Along, Sing

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.
H. R. Giger

Work, Death, Strange

My understanding of this life is that you tour and play for years and years, have some longevity and a steady career. That may sound boring, but I always thought that was less depressing than being a one-hit wonder.
Teddy Thompson

Life, Career, Boring

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

Life, History, Political

Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.
Patrick Carney

Food, Single, Same

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

Yourself, Die, Hoping

I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing.
Joseph Kosinski

Life, Computers, Pretty

Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.
Merlin Olsen

Book, Read, Second

Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.
Jeremy Paxman

Find, Popular, Tv

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.
Neal Boortz

Government, Nothing, Face

Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
Veronica Roth

Understand, Perfect, Means

I'd happily just stay on the road. Getting home from America, sitting in my kitchen with a cup of tea, staring out of the window is pretty depressing. I didn't have a tour manager to tell me what to do so I had to start reaching out to people and making plans. That was hard. You become very vegetable-y.
Ben Lovett

Home, Hard, Pretty

God, I am afraid he won't give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me - it is all so terribly depressing.
Eva Braun

God, Today, Help

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.
Stanley Schmidt

Future, Easy, Ugly

I've just made a cancer drama, called 'Now Is Good,' directed by Ol Parker and starring Dakota Fanning. We filmed in Brighton and it's about a girl dying of leukemia, although it's not as depressing as it sounds.
Kaya Scodelario

Good, Girl, Made

I always find the most depressing stuff most interesting.
Jennifer Coolidge

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

Music, Great, Why

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

Nothing, Older, Forever

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

Rather, Fine, Protestant

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