Best Most Depressing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

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Author:Clare Short

“Listening to the radio every day for an entire year was a prison sentence. It was the most depressing, annoying, debilitating project I have ever undertaken, and I have a master's degree in art history.”

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Author:Sarah Vowell

“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!”

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Book:The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version

Source: The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version

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

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Author:Ken Loach

“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.”

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Author:Arthur Frommer

“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.”

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Author:Andrew Garfield

“I felt like I could get away with calling it Black Hours. That could easily be the most depressing record ever written, but because there is this sense of fun throughout the whole thing I felt like I could get away with it. Like "5 A.M."; that song's in a minor key and I'm just wailing away and it could have been just wallowing depression, but it's not.”

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Author:Hamilton Leithauser

“The most depressing thing about blogging is watching so-called 'citizen journalists' turn in to little more than easily offended partisan hacks. Any remark that is slightly less than completely and totally scripted and can give the slightest opportunity to offend some delicate soul somewhere is used to set off a series of partisan screeches and cries of outrage that would make the Church Lady jealous.”

“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.”

“Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, talk about how the U.S. became a national security state after World War II. Essentially there's this bipartisan foreign policy elite who've been calling the shots for the last few decades and they're clearly still in control regardless of how clownish or absurd they demonstrate themselves to be. There's no shaking their orthodoxy. To me it was the most depressing thing, these full-scale military interventions firsthand for a number of years, seeing how quickly we can get involved in another war with very little debate.”

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Author:Michael Hastings

“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.”

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Author:Barry Blitt

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

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Author:Artie Lange

“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.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

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

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Author:Luis Bunuel

“Bob Dylan will be thirty years old this month..." "That's the most depressing thing I've ever heard.”

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Author:Charles M. Schulz

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

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Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.”

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Book:The Essential Willa Cather Collection

Source: The Essential Willa Cather Collection

“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.”

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Author:Mary Leakey

“I always find the most depressing stuff most interesting.”

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Author:Jennifer Coolidge

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

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Author:Andrew Garfield