Life Is So Depressing Quotes

#1. It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.

Freya Stark

#2. Having no expectations for some people in your life can be depressing, if not devastating. But with others, it's what is necessary. The hard part is not just figuring out which one applies, but accepting it.

Sarah Dessen

#3. Do you ever get really excited about life and then realize it's just the caffeine? It's really depressing, but that just means you need more coffee." -- Janet Tomalin, Mahogany Slade

Stephen Robinson

#4. Dealing with ads is depressing. You don't make anyone's life better by making advertisements work better.

Brian Acton

#5. I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn't get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#6. It's a wonderful life if you can find it.

Nick Cave

#7. Life isn't worth living unless you are young and surrounded by other young people in a beautiful cold garden perfumed by dirt and flowers and fallen leaves, gleaming in the string of lights, listening to the quiet city on the last fine night of the year.

Lauren Groff

#8. Between the new, happy him, and the old, depressing him, there stood in the way only his lack of imagination.

Vann Chow

#9. 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

#10. The house was literally perfect now. Instead of being thrilling, that suddenly seemed depressing.

Liane Moriarty

#11. A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

Etta James

#12. Because life's too short to read depressing books.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#13. You might like that one. But I'll tell you the same thing I tell my students when they complain about the depressing nature of American literature: life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly ( ... )

Matthew Quick

#14. Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We've all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.

Joss Whedon

#15. Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough
I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too.

Nicole Christie

#16. To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#17. the path your life is stuck on and be free

It's a dark whisper calling to me.

But I'm not brave enough to listen. I'm old enough to know I don't have any special talents. So no matter how depressing... I have to suck it up... And live the life I have.

Inio Asano

#18. The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

Oscar Wilde

#19. A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

Charlotte Bronte

#20. My understanding of this life is that you tour and play for years and years, have some longevity and a steady career. That may sound boring, but I always thought that was less depressing than being a one-hit wonder.

Teddy Thompson

#21. You should write about your life. It's kind of funny. When it's not depressing as hell.

Jeni Decker

#22. If the numbers mean anything, they tell us that vastly more life is left in the reviled internal-combustion engine than any of the blue-state lefties could imagine. First, that madman Bush wins, and now this news. How depressing.

Brock Yates

#23. And then he felt the misery of his life.

W. Somerset Maugham

#24. I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco.

Chicken John

#25. He would live a small life, and instead of depressing him, the thought became comforting. For the first time, he no longer felt trapped. Instead, he felt safe. He

Brit Bennett

#26. With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of achievers. I compared what Id actually achieved in my life with what I would like to achieve and what other people have achieved, and I found that comparison depressing.

Jared Diamond

#27. In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

Richard Hell

#28. Depressing realization sets in. Writing was invented not by human beings but by accountants. Most of the early writing systems are records of how much crap people own, how much money they have, how much money they owe, and other lowering/boastful facts of human life.

Philip Hensher

#29. People aren't born sad; we make them that way.

Nikita Gill

#30. The surest sign that you're working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don't complain very much about doing what it takes.

Danielle LaPorte

#31. I find it rather depressing that the people you love most in this world can also be the same exact people you hate with fervor. But it can happen, trust me.
It was the f***ing story of my life.

Christina Channelle

#32. Life is only logical, and to think it's a gift is depressing.

Konrad

#33. Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.

Olivia Wilde

#34. I hate reading stuff that is depressing or morbid or in any way crappy. That's what life is for.

Marci Lyn Curtis

#35. 'Comfy,' that's one of the worst words! I just picture a woman feeling bad, with a big bottle of alcohol, really puffy. It's really depressing, but she likes her life because she has comfortable clogs.

Christian Louboutin

#36. I can't think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose.

Daniel Willey