Depressing quotes, angry quotes, and sad love quotes to free you from expectations which inspire bitterness.

"Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens." - Schopenhauer

"He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan." - Alain de Botton (on Arthur Schopenhauer).

"It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent" - Hannah Arendt

"Once we have resolved only to to see those who will treat us morally and virtuously, reasonably and truthfully, without treating conventions, vanities and ceremonials as anything other than props of polite society, we will have to live more or less on our own." - Chamfort

"When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch himself on a great career and feel that he has been called to no common destiny. But this is a delusion which experience quickly corrects." - de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

"When I see a school bus it's just depressing... The poor little kids." - Dolly Parton

"It was depressing, ... I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck." - Clyde Tombaugh

"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

"I find nothing more depressing than optimism." - Paul Fussell

"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious." - Horace

"Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression." - Karen Horney, initially a devoted follower of Freud who later believed that social factors were of more importance in curing neurosis than the biological and oedipal factors that Freud believed in.