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Depress Quotes
What weighs on the mind, named plainly.
These depress quotes name the small, specific things that wear a person down — seeing too much of the world, picking up the wrong self-help book, letting yourself go physically — balanced by one firm reminder that nothing can depress you without your own consent.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.
- Constrain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, there is some evidence that migration can slightly depress wages at the bottom end of the labour market, but that's an argument for a genuine living wage, for ensuring all workers are employed on the same terms and conditions, and for extending unionisation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I exercise, and I eat reasonably, and I don't want to look at myself being out of shape. That would depress me.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.
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- Nov 07, 2020