“I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.” CitiesFiveAirRainMovedConstantSouthHatedSensationsDepressingNew ZealandWinnipeg Author:Daniel Gillies
“School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It's filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter the business world - where art meets commerce - it can become quite depressing.” WorldArtSchoolEnvironmentSafeFilledCraftsCommerceDepressingIdealismBusiness WorldSafe Environment Author:Troy Garity
“My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.” YearsMadeTwoParentLessonsGuitarEveningTwo YearsDepressingWednesdayClassical GuitarMost Depressing Author:Andrew Garfield
“I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.” TryingHomeRoomsBedClothesMental HealthComing HomeDepressingUnmade Beds Author:David Alan Grier
“And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of water? Is it because science flatters no courtier, mingles in no political strife? ... Can we behold unmoved the science of England, the vital principle of her arts, struggling for existence, the meek and unarmed victim of political strife?” MenDoeArtSciencePoliticalWaterLevelsExistencePrinciplesStruggleEnglandVictimWoodsDepressingStrifeDrawersMeekUnarmedCourtiers Author:David Brewster
“The revival of consumers saving their money for retirement - rather than expecting their homes to provide the cushion - added with 'move down' buyers will depress real-estate prices.” RealHomeMovingFinancialSavingConsumersRetirementExpectingDepressingEstatesRevivalSkepticalBuyersCushions Author:David I. Rozenberg
“Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.” StoriesFilmSexStudyLateHollywoodTwentiesAffairSunsetWornDepressingDecadenceUncompromisingHollywood MoviesBoulevardMethodicalSunset BoulevardLate Twenties Book:Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America Source: Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America
“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.” IfsWritingHandsPleasureMaterialsGuiltyThese DaysSatireDepressingGuilty Pleasure Author:Carl Hiaasen
“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.” IfsTryingWork OutOptimisticDepressingOptimistPessimistPessimistic Author:Nicholas Hoult
“If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.” IfsPoliticalDepressingPolitical Life Author:Anselm Kiefer
“This whole issue of limits to growth, which provides a psychological, as well as a physical, cap on potential expansion of activity and awareness, has had a very depressing effect on many people.... I don't for a moment think that there's any concept which anyone's working with now which will be followed as a straightforward scenario. But the idea embodied in concepts such as space colonization or space industrialization, or availability of nonterrestrial resources, is fundamental, and it will change the way in which people look at the future.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsLooksIdeasWholeMomentsGrowthSpaceIssuesEffectsAwarenessActivityLimitsConceptsResourcesFundamentalsPsychologicalDepressingExpansionScenariosCapsStraightforwardColonizationAvailabilityIndustrializationVery Depressing Author:Rusty Schweickart