Doug Stanhope Quotes

Misery is a communicable disease.

Most comedy comes out of misery.

The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.

There is a lot of sadness in America.

A lot of joking stems from a very dark place a bit.

It's very hard to be happy when you've lost.

Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

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.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief.

The latter end of joy is woe.