Quotes by Depressing The 60s were a continuation of the 50s much more than people realized. Certainly in some countries, like Britain, there was still a culture of deference, whereas in the 70s we really are in a time of angry transition. The generation that came into young adulthood in the 70s couldn't find jobs; that wasn't true in my generation. They entered a time when two depressing things hit them both at the same time. Tony Judt depressingcountrypeople Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable. Tony Kushner depressingimaginationthinking I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal. Townes Van Zandt depressingwritingsong 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. Troy Garity depressingartschool Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing. V. S. Pritchett depressingminutesmen 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. Valeria Luiselli moraldepressingthinking Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing. Ursula K. Le Guin extremeslogicaldepressing I've been watching a lot of A&E's 'Intervention.' I know that's sort of depressing, but I love watching it. Vanessa Bayer interventiondepressingknows As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense. Victoria Legrand depressingdoeforever 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. Victoria Pendleton malesdepressingthinking Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization. Victor Hugo depressingeyestruggle 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. Veronica Roth depressingmeanthinking I don't like mansions. They depress me. In fact, I even feel sorry for a rich husband and wife living in a forty-room mansion. They're obviously searching for something they don't have, such as happiness or the respect of others. Vincent Bugliosi depressingmoneysorry When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more. Vinny Guadagnino depressingselfbook Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. W. Somerset Maugham depressingsarcasticlove I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels! Walt Whitman depressingstarsrunning I don't ever mean my pictures to be depressing - I don't believe in making depressing pictures. Walter Rosenblum depressingmeanbelieve A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them. Walter Lippmann depressingmeancountry Without art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed. Wayne Coyne so-saddepressingart I only allow that which is good into my life. No one can depress you. No one can make you anxious. No one can hurt your feelings. No one can make you anything.....other than what you allow! Wayne Dyer positive-thinkingdepressinghurt«2021222324252627282930»
