Depressing Phrases Quotes & Sayings

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still. — Thomas Moore

Authentic gratitude is much more rare and precious than expressions of gratitude which are often empty courtesies or simply tactical ploys to encourage further gifts or kindnesses. — Michael Josephson

Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization. — Victor Hugo

Thank you' is a wonderful phrase. Use it. It will add stature to your soul. — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

She was too dependent on what other people thought of her, and that was her downfall. She cared too much. She was only what other people saw in her - -that is, what she imagined they saw in her. — Steph Bowe

The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films. — Vidya Balan

Solitary Trees if they grow at all, grow strong. — Winston Churchill

It's one of the things I like about being in France, it brings out the best in me, and always surprises me-and even when I think it won't be good for me, it is. — Mark Greenside

Do you only speak in questions?"
"Do you only speak in SAT words? — Megan Erickson

When you hear bacon cooking ... that sizzling sound isn't the fat cooking ... that's applause. — Jim Gaffigan

My mother has always been sickly; and though she has only gone to the hospital when she has been compelled to, it has cost a great deal of money, and my father's life has been practically given up to it. "If only I knew how much the operation costs," says he. "Have you not asked?" "Not directly. I cannot do that - the surgeon might take it amiss and that would not do; he must operate on Mother." Yes, I think bitterly, that's how it is with us, and with all poor people. They don't dare ask the price, but worry themselves dreadfully beforehand about it; but the others, for whom it is not important, they settle the price first as a matter of course. And the doctor does not take it amiss from them. — Erich Maria Remarque