Hector Hugh Munro Quotes

Unhappy is a nice word.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.

I lean towards traditionally what people would consider the more negative side of life.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

If you're really invested in feeling bad about the world, there are a lot of media outlets out there that you can turn to.

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic.

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.

Most of life is sad.

I do feel like I'm a little too much of a bummer sometimes.

My general taste is towards the melancholy.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

I just don't want to be around people who don't hate everything in their life right now.