Dispiriting Quotes

We are spending too much money. Our discretionary spending - taking out Iraq and mandatory spending - grew 49 percent in four years. Our debt has grown. Pork is always dispiriting. But pork being spent at a time of war is particularly dispiriting. - Mitt Romney

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary. - Robert Falcon Scott

I've never felt such exhilarating highs and dispiriting lows than those experienced when we first detected the signal from the GBT, indicating 'all's well' and then discovering that we had no signal at the operations center, indicating 'all's lost... The truth, as we have now determined, lies somewhat closer to the former than the latter. - Michael Bird

I found the former Vice President Al Gore's speech today so dispiriting, not to say pathetic. - Tucker Carlson