Top 60 Demotivational Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Also featured in: Giving Up Quotes, Depressing Quotes, Sad Quotes, Loss Quotes, Depression Quotes

2. “If you need inspiring words, don’t do it.”

— Elon Musk

3. “Life is not fair. Get used to it.”

— Bill Gates

Also featured in: Quotes About Reality

4. “No good deed goes unpunished.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes, Clever Quotes, Witty Quotes

5. “Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.”

— Doug Larson

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Funny Work Quotes, Boss Quotes, Funny Office Quotes

6. “I don’t hate people. I just feel better when they aren’t around.”

— Charles Bukowski

7. “If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.”

— Sylvia Plath

8. “Wherever the crowd goes, run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.”

— Charles Bukowski

9. “Youth is wasted on the young.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Witty Quotes, Funny Quotes About Life

10. “Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Sad Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life, Suffering Quotes

11. “The meaning of life is that it stops.”

— Franz Kafka

Also featured in: Sad Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life

12. “A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.”

— Chanakya

Also featured in: Hard Hitting Quotes, Corruption Quotes

13. “Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.”

— Chanakya

Also featured in: Hard Hitting Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

14. “Every corpse on Mount Everest was once an extremely motivated person.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes

15. “Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.”

— Charles Bukowski

16. “I feel much better, now that I’ve given up hope.”

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Also featured in: Silly Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Depressing Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life

17. “Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”

— Peter F. Drucker

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes

18. “To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Also featured in: Reputation Quotes

19. “It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.”

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Also featured in: Silly Quotes, Depressing Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life, Sarcastic Quotes

20. “Support bacteria – they’re the only culture some people have.”

— Steven Wright

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Funny Wednesday Quotes, Funny Monday Quotes

21. “Remember, life is just a game and no one gets out alive.”

— David Lee Roth

22. “Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.”

— Orson Welles

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Justice Quotes

23. “I am nothing. I’ll never be anything. I couldn’t want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Also featured in: Sad Quotes, Existentialism Quotes, Depression Quotes, Emo Quotes

24. “Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

25. “Don’t do your best, do my best.”

— Adam Carolla

Also featured in: Sarcastic Quotes

26. “Quotes are for dumb people who can’t think of something intelligent to say on their own.”

— Bo Burnham

Also featured in: Sarcastic Quotes

27. “The world doesn’t owe you anything. It was here first.”

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Sarcastic Quotes, Firsts Quotes

28. “On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Fight Club Quotes

29. “Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.”

— Gary W. Keller

Also featured in: Sarcastic Quotes, Funny Office Quotes

30. “Motivation is crap. Motivation comes and goes. When you are driven, whatever is in front of you will get destroyed.”

— David Goggins

Also featured in: Hustle Quotes, Life is Hard Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Grind Quotes

31. “When money talks, Nobody checks the grammar.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Wealth Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes

32. “Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Sadness Quotes

33. “Money is my God. If you think God will help you then quit your job and see how much he cares.”

— Mike Tyson

Also featured in: Quotes About Money

34. “Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.”

— Dennis Wholey

Also featured in: Sarcastic Quotes

35. “To create art means to be crazy alone forever.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Crazy Quotes, Loneliness Quotes

36. “The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Lonely Quotes

37. “Death is not the problem; waiting around for it is.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Quotes About Waiting

38. “Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.”

— Frank Zappa

Also featured in: Truth Quotes

39. “We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and – in spite of True Romance magazines – we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

Also featured in: Sad Quotes About Life, Loneliness Quotes, Romance Quotes

40. “Second place is just the first place loser.”

— Dale Earnhardt

Also featured in: Hard Hitting Quotes

41. “Nothing in life is promised except death.”

— Kanye West

Also featured in: Hard Hitting Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life

42. “No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.”

— Robert Greene

Also featured in: Life is Hard Quotes

43. “When everything’s coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.”

— Steven Wright

Also featured in: Hilarious Quotes, Funny Wednesday Quotes

44. “Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.”

— George Carlin

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Silly Quotes, Funny Movie Quotes

45. “Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”

— H. L. Mencken

Also featured in: Disrespect Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

46. “Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”

— Katharine Hepburn

Also featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life

47. “Aim low, reach your goals, and avoid disappointment.”

— Scott Adams

48. “I’ve tried so hard and got so far but in the end, it doesn’t even matter.”

— Chester Bennington

Also featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life, Depression Quotes, Disappointment Quotes

49. “It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Also featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Depressing Quotes, Suffering Quotes

50. “I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”

— Edgar Allan Poe