Dispiriting Quotes

#1. People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.

Frances Hesselbein

#2. I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.

Bjorn Lomborg

#3. The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.

Robert Falcon Scott

#4. I knew you'd figure it out," he said."And I hoped that by the time you figured it out, you would be sufficiently accustomed to the situation for the realization to be less ... dispiriting.

Robin McKinley

#5. His love for her was quiet and constant, familiar and soothing; it was almost its own thing entirely, like a worn rock or a set of worry beads, something he'd pick up and weigh in his palm occasionally, more comforting than dispiriting.

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

#6. I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most reliable neighbor to the right is Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening', which is dispiriting. That's a book I don't want to re-read.

Susan Choi

#7. Being human can be so dispiriting. It is a real stretch for me a lot of the time.

Anne Lamott

#8. For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.

Joe Klein

#9. Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.

Carolyn Hax

#10. The DSS offices are not given enough funding, their staff are poorly paid and are driven to distraction by the amount of work they have to do. There is frequent turnover of staff. Morale is extremely low. Working with desperate people all day is very dispiriting; their unhappiness rubs off on you.

Sue Townsend

#11. The great chasm between the thing I say, & the thing I would say, wd be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#12. But Harry wondered if he might be getting too old for the dispiriting adventure that seemed to inevitably accompany the need for human contact.

Hanif Kureishi

#13. I know that it's very dispiriting for people in their twenties, who expected to graduate from college, get their own apartments, get a job, and move forward with their lives, and in fact are still now living with Mom and Dad, which is challenging for all involved.

Anna Quindlen

#14. The hardest part was coming to terms with the constant dispiriting discovery that there is always more hill.

Bill Bryson

#15. It could be oddly dispiriting, the blank refusal of humankind to even attempt to function responsibly.

Jojo Moyes

#16. One of the more dispiriting things I think about endless touring is hearing the same piece of music over and over again and I end up feeling like a fraud.

Squarepusher

#17. Call me, and I'd do anything for the Democratic Party.

Art Alexakis

#18. What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

Ernest Gaines

#19. My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.

Jessica Simpson

#20. But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

Danny Glover

#21. You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.

Nic Pizzolatto

#22. I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, the good characters are people who get places, are devious, are cunning and tricky and hard to pin down. Obviously, if you play one and you do an okay job of it, that'll be on people's minds.

Aidan Gillen

#23. The double chin's not good for the red carpet.

Missy Elliott

#24. Everyone has an opinion; the question is which opinions are actually relevant to your journey and which are just static in the air?

Kimora Lee Simmons

#25. I have lots of girlfriends - all over the country! You think I'm kidding? I'm dead serious. Girlfriends everywhere.

William Levy

#26. Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

Ernest Hemingway,