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Quotes About Depressing

Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.
~ Bill Bryson
I try not to write for actors because A, they're not the character, and B, it's really depressing when you don't get them.
~ Theodore Melfi
If you are in a breakup, you might as well go all the way and spend the summer in Samarkand, with no air-conditioning, learning a language you have no use for. At least it adds some romance to a depressing situation.
~ Elif Batuman
It's kind of depressing. A double relegation is something a few of us have - and we don't want it on our CV's.
~ Matt Doherty
It's the most depressing-looking plaything I ever saw.' 'I want to pretend I live in it,' I said, 'and give masked balls.' My social history was eager but indiscriminate.
~ Robert Aickman
The sad truth is the truth is sad.
~ Daniel Handler
I once got a call from a bank, asking me to compute a mortgage, since their computers were down. This was a very depressing moment.
~ Richard A. Falk
Every day is a challenge, a challenge of happinesswhether you can still wear a smile at the end of a depressing day or you will totally miss it.
~ Bradley B. Dalina
I stuck on the lunchtime news. More riots. Tedious now. Depressing. You ever read Thucycdides? I'll boil him down for you in one easy moral: intergenerational war is a very bad thing.
~ Adrian McKinty
As long as movies are depressing, life isn't.
~ Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The history of the 1918 influenza pandemic is depressing reading. It's like watching a horror movie that you have seen before. You know who the killer is, but you can't jump in and save the victim.
~ Jeremy Brown
How is Mrs. Rivers doing?' asked the agent, a very tall and large man, well-dressed, bald and depressing, with a manner of gliding into his office from a side door without perceptibly moving his feet which had struck terror into many young writers and caused them to accept the lowest terms Mr. Hobb could offer.
~ Angela Thirkell
That's the mindset I'm in, is do what I can do, do what I can control, and stay productive. I feel like it can get depressing really fast, being home and not having anything to do. I think being productive is important.
~ Loren Gray
It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.
~ Ann Beattie
War is an unbelievable potpourri of deep fear, exhilaration, dull, monotonous, dirty living, strange heroics, and complete cowardice, all intermingled to form a way of life at once stimulating and completely depressing.
~ Robert E. Merriam
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
With their cheerless titles, who would want to read them?
~ Donna McDonald
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
There is not a country on earth that could get its fiscal house in order by shrinking opportunity and depressing growth.
~ Martin O'Malley
In 'Notting Hill,' I was part of a whole plot line over six scenes that was completely taken out. That was rather depressing.
~ Richard McCabe
When we are able to receive life's challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and depressing.
~ Brenda Shoshanna
When people hear sing-songy melodies, they think the lyrics will be nice, too. I guess there's a depressing or psychotic side to my personality that pops out in the lyrics.
~ Kim Shattuck
I don't know how much you follow current events. For some, there's not enough time to keep up on what's happening; for others, the news is too depressing, and peering too deeply fills one with boiling frustration all too quickly.
~ Henry Rollins
DEAR NEPHEW,    As you will already have realized during our much too brief companionship, I am essentially a man of principle. That is unpleasant and depressing not only to those who come in contact with me, but also to myself as well. Yet it is my principles that have made me what I am, and no one can ask me to deny my fundamental self. Not even you, my dear nephew.
~ Franz Kafka