Browsing Topic Best Most Depressing Quotes

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.

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

Luckily, my limited attention span is well suited to the velocity of the news cycles. There’s an assault of stories coming at you on even a slow-ish news day, but certain things just tend to stick out. Certain stories just seem to have an odd sort of electricity. It does get tricky when you’re pitching an image that won’t hit the newsstands for another week. Not only can other, bigger stories break in the mean time, but other daily cartoonists, can also come up with the same idea – this is the most depressing thing – and put it out there so yours looks old by the time it’s published.

It is sad to witness the persistence in our society of the racism and xenophobia that seems to be a permanent part of our political culture. It is shameful to see politicians exploiting these human weaknesses in order to gain political power. It is most depressing of all to contemplate a future in which politicians who do this will continue to have influence over people’s lives.

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

The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics

I saw the most frightening, most depressing sight I had ever seen – a row of stores with Stars of David and the word ‘Jude’ painted on them, and inside, behind half-empty counters, people in a daze, cringing like they didn’t know what hit them and didn’t know where the next blow would come from. Hitler had been in power only six months, and his boycott was already in full effect. I hadn’t been so wholly conscious of being a Jew since my bar mitzvahs, and it was the first time since I’d had the measles that I was too sick to eat.

I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist — a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community — that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.

One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical. Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!

I always find the most depressing stuff most interesting.

This is the saddest, most depressing music I’ve ever heard. It makes me so happy.

The most depressing thing is the political slogan: there is no alternative. But there is.

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

When I was 6 I thought that I wanted to be a musician – like a singer-songwriter. That’s what I romantically envisioned for myself. But in reality the experience of getting into music was just the opposite. My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai if I can because it is a ruin. It is most depressing.

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