The Most Depressing Quotes

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

Willa Cather

#2. 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!

Ida Tarbell

#3. Breakups just hit you harder when you're younger. When I was a teenager, it felt like the most depressing thing in the world if a boy I was infatuated with didn't like me back!

Ellie Goulding

#4. inside them, no one's having fun.
Instead, people are expressing needs (to earn money, to see a woman's skin) in pretty much the most depressing way possible.

Caitlin Moran

#5. The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

Luis Bunuel

#6. 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.

Sarah Vowell

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

Clare Short

#8. The most depressing thing is the political slogan: there is no alternative. But there is.

Ken Loach

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

Charles M. Schulz

#10. They were the most depressing group of people Yossarian had ever been with. They were always in high spirits.

Joseph Heller

#11. 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.

Arthur Frommer

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

Andrew Garfield

#13. These must be the most depressing words in the history of love. I tried really hard to love you.

Cath Crowley

#14. I always find the most depressing stuff most interesting.

Jennifer Coolidge

#15. Cited by the author of 'Lucky Jim' as one of the most dismal depressing questions in the English language: Shall we go straight in?

Kingsley Amis

#16. Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

John Ralston Saul

#17. Find depressing his determination to make his characters suffer even when a little common sense on both his part and theirs could avoid it. Tess is one of the most irritating young women in Victorian fiction. Won

P.D. James

#18. I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.

Mick Jagger

#19. Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.

Ben Shapiro

#20. The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

T. S. Eliot

#21. The other men were easy to talk to, but they didn't know anything. If one stopped to think about it, it was depressing how little most men learned in their lifetimes.

Larry McMurtry

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

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#23. I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.

Joanne Woodward

#24. Most politicians are ever eager to regulate industrial and commercial activity and strike at the economic elite with confiscatory taxation. Unfortunately, regulation and taxation tend to hamper economic activity, inhibit productivity, and depress levels of living.

Hans F. Sennholz

#25. People are like germs, only bigger. That bit of wisdom has proven true, for the most part. Humans are little more than highly evolved bacteria, leeches on a rotting ball of clay. It's depressing, I know.

Mike Duran

#26. Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.

Jeremy Paxman

#27. 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.

Mary Leakey

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror ... so today I vetoed it

George W. Bush

#31. The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

Oscar Wilde