Mark Leyner Quotes

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

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

I felt like things could never get any worse.

The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

Even the news, to me, or newspapers, I have a hard time getting into it because it all sucks you into this negative, bad, there-is-no-hope side of it.

The future is kind of a bleak place.

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

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

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.

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.

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

I'm a total pessimist.

I shall never come to the Punjab again; it is such a hopeless place.

I'm a cynical person who's normally attracted to the dark side of things.

I'm a pessimist.

At the beginning of 'A Christmas Carol,' Scrooge embodies one of the central tenets of depression: that one has always been this way - and always will be.

Sometimes it's hard not to feel really negative.

Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.

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

I don't like to sing things that just sound like they're going straight down the tubes, and they're circling the drain, and there's no hope. It doesn't feel good in any way to sing.

In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn't that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.