Top 39 Depresses Quotes
#2. Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
Miguel De Unamuno
#3. The aim of Satanic power is to cut off communication with God. To accomplish this aim he deludes the soul with a sense of defeat, covers him with a thick cloud of darkness, depresses and oppresses the spirit, which in turn hinders prayer and leads to unbelief - thus destroying all power.
James O. Fraser
#4. I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.
Douglas Coupland
#5. If social security depresses savings rates, it is only because it is unfunded.
Robert Kuttner
#6. The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.
Edmund Phelps
#7. The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath.
[Lat., Quin corpus onustum
Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una
Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.]
Horace
#8. I am informed that 5,000 cockroaches were used in the filming of Joe's Apartment. That depresses me, but not as much as the news that none of them were harmed during the production.
Roger Ebert
#9. The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth while, depresses
Carter G. Woodson
#10. American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me.
Siri Hustvedt
#11. I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?
Carroll O'Connor
#12. I suffer from life and from other people. I can't look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful - only then do I find myself and feel comforted.
Fernando Pessoa
#13. If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.
Anselm Kiefer
#14. August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation.
Willard Scott
#15. What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
Ellen Glasgow
#16. Parties somehow represent the rationing of fun, and that very concept depresses me. You're allowed to act like a tit at parties; therefore by implication, you're not allowed to act like a tit the rest of the time
Charlie Brooker
#18. And it totally depresses me, but the ladies eat it up. They love my father's books and they love his cable-knit sweaters and they love his bleachy smile and orangey tan. And they have turned him into a bestseller and a total dick.
Stephanie Perkins
#19. I find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people
Marge Piercy
#20. It depresses me when people expect me to be like the characters I play on film. I'm not some whiny loser punk, I'm a man's man.
Zach Braff
#21. How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
Maria Edgeworth
#22. I don't want to play stinking, beer-ridden clubs. It depresses me even thinking about that. I really hate it when you're finished with a show and you're in your dressing room with that stink of beer and sweaty girls. It brings back an ugly picture for me. I'd hate to have to do that again.
Steve Jones
#23. Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
Sallust
#24. I know myself, from my own background, the E.U. depresses employment and destroys jobs. My father had a business destroyed by the common fisheries policy.
Michael Gove
#25. evangelizing, proclaiming Jesus, gives us joy. In contrast, egoism makes us bitter, sad, and depresses us. Evangelizing uplifts us.
Pope Francis
#26. 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.
Richard E. Grant
#27. Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.
Noel Fielding
#28. The Lord's way builds individual self esteem and develops and heals the dignity of the individual, whereas the world's way depresses the individual's view of himself and causes deep resentment
Spencer W. Kimball
#29. I don't like to watch myself. For the most part, I find it weird. It depresses me; I'm very critical.
Elizabeth Reaser
#30. Like love, mourning affects the world - and the worldly - with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of me, from its demands. The world increases my sadness, my dryness, my confusion, my irritation, etc. The world depresses me.
Roland Barthes
#31. Your explanation depresses me," I said.
"Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.
Langston Hughes
#32. The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.
Horace
#33. Isn't it perfectly possible that Nils and his wife are too depressed to have kids? The prospect of having kids depresses the shit out of me, and I'm neither suicidal nor Norwegian!
John Irving
#34. Black is not sad. Bright colors are what depresses me. They're so ... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not.
Ann Demeulemeester
#35. The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is not athletic: he sees the futility of the pursuit of fame; the climate at times depresses him.
Anais Nin
#36. We can't allow ouselves to be depresses or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have a little bit of time in this world before death swallows us up.
Frederick Lenz
#37. Just don't do things that depress you. I realized if it depresses me, then I just don't want to get close to it. If it brings me down, I just really can't get into it.
John Currin
#38. He may gain consciousness and feel like talking. I could leave a nurse here but their damned professional cheeriness depresses introspective men. Talk to him if he feels like it, and if he wants a doctor call me on this.
Alasdair Gray
#39. I dislike nothing more than finding fault with a man's nature or talent; it only depresses and worries and does no good; one cannot add a cubit to one's stature, all striving and struggling are useless there, so one has to be silent about it, and let the responsibility rest with God.
Felix Mendelssohn
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