Denise Mina Quotes

I'm so involved in melancholy.

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

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

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

A people whose souls are so little tuned to joy.

It looked like everything worth living for was gone. The entire country was depressed -- there was no hope.

There's definitely sadness happening in this band. I get melancholy every day about things.

I wear a lot of black. Like my heart.

I like dark, hopeless, beautiful tragedies.

There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

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.

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious.

If a documentary crew were to follow me around, they'd probably think they were making a film about the saddest person in the world.