Best Depressing Quotes

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

It’s very depressing to live in a time where it’s easier to break an atom than a prejudice.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed ‘dignity’ to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!

To love you was pleasant enough. And, oh! ’tis delicious to hate you!

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it’s very ambiguous. You have it or you don’t. You can’t attain it. There are terrible forms of professional humor, the humorists’ humor. That can be awful. It depresses me because it is artificial. You can’t always be humorous, but a professional humorist must. That is a sad phenomenon.

Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and, in truth, our own private interest concurs in it, as it is making ourselves so many friends, instead of so many enemies.

I’m not saying that I made a film to make young people feel great, not such a simple message, but I really felt that I will not go back to do something depressing. I had to make something happy and funny, and show that there are always many ways to continue – even when you’re feeling ugly, or you are forgotten by your parents.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Some people think reality must be constantly depressing, but I think reality is something you rise above.

I’m really depressing. Some people watch comedy to relax. I watch 21 Grams. I can recognize sadness and tragedy really easily because it’s been with me forever.

It’s depressing a little when you don’t see outside the tour bus and underground in a stadium. If you go outside near the venue there are lots of fans everywhere so you can’t just have a minute to enjoy the sunshine alone and think.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

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.

If I didn’t try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

We need not seek our own best selves, and in the meantime we inoculate ourselves against the viruses of age and idealism, which, as the advertising agencies well know, depress sales and sour the feasts of consumption.

Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.

It’s depressing when you’re still around and your albums are out of print.

The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that’s why it’s usually depressing and disgusting to look at.

Those who constantly try to impress others will quickly depress themselves.

I think pain is the best feeling for song writing. You can write good happy songs, but I think the kind of bruiting, depressing ones are more effective. They are easier to write when I am impassioned and angry. It is a good way to channel that negative energy.

For the first actual comedy-comedy I did, I took a comedy class in New York, which was full of slightly unhinged people. It was a pretty depressing crowd, very angry and strange people. But then I took a class at the Upright Citizens Brigade and I loved those people.

The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.

A lot of people work out to be skinny. That’s so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

It was such a depressing time. I didn’t look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.

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.

Writers tend to think they occupy a much more relevant place in society than we actually do. But we really are closer to buffoons and jesters than we are to whistle-blowers or moral guides. Accepting our rather insignificant place in society can be depressing – but it’s also freeing.

It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There’s no personality involved.

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!

When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits, it depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can’t be real. It ought to be but it isn’t. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn’t say it.

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.

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.

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

It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.