Kenneth Oppel Quotes

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.

Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, 'Ugh'.

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

There are so many reasons to be sad in the club.

The best anti-depressant pill for me would be one the size of a house so you could drop it on me and put me out of my misery.

You know, if my life was a horse, I’d shoot it. (Susan)

Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?

Today is just one of those days the sun comes out to really humiliate you.

Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.

Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.

I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.

You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.

The latter end of joy is woe.

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.

We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.

I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.

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.

Unfortunately this is where comedy works, where people are the most miserable.

I don't do anything. My life sucks.

What is more miserable than discontent?

I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.

Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape

Look at Charlie Brown's face. Would you please hold still a minute Charlie Brown? I want Linus to study your face. Now this is what you call a failure face, Linus. Notice how it has failure written all over it. Study it carefully Linus. You rarely see such a good example. Notice the deep lines, the dull vacant look in the eyes. Yes, I would say this is one of the finest examples of a failure face that your liable to see for a long while.