Depressing Quotes

As a journalist, I have spent years reporting on often difficult and depressing conflicts, on poverty, and the inhuman way we sometimes treat each other.

Being out of work is very depressing. But luckily I haven‘t been there for a long time.

I don’t watch television! At least not when I’m traveling. For some reason, I have always found it depressing to watch television in hotel rooms. I try to use that time, as well as time on planes, to write.

I love to laugh and dance. That’s kind of my nature, though I end up always playing these angry, depressing characters.

It’s really so depressing to be still listed in the Social Register after all the acting I’ve done.

We’re in a situation where talented, motivated school leavers and graduates can send off a hundred CVs and not get a reply, and where a trip to the Job Centre is depressing rather than inspirational. And you know what, that just feels wrong.

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn’t.

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

I went back and reread the Dinosaur chapter in ‘Our Band Could Be Your Life,’ and it was so depressing.

I find myself going out less and less. When you’re 22 and see older people start to do that, it’s depressing, but once you hit 30, you think, ‘Wow, I’ve been working all week – it might be really nice to stay in!’

I don’t really do sad, depressing songs.

To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter – a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

It’s depressing to think what it would mean to be impaired down the neck.

Of all the depressing abuses of language in business, there is none that gets me so incensed as the rampant overuse of the word ‘passionate‘ in company slogans, marketing blurbs, mission statements and on the sides of vans.

One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it’s sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what’s in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.

When I go to work, I don’t want to make depressing, gritty, urban stories that are depressing to watch. I want to give people something to enjoy. When people think I’m a control freak and an ogre – which I am – it’s only because I want my work to be accessible and Everyman, in a way.

It’s kind of depressing to make a lot of records and not get the kind of response they deserve.

My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.