I don't like comedy that makes me feel worse about the world than I already felt before I turned it on.
Los Angeles can be a really sad city.
I see the bad in everything I do.
I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
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.
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.
My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.
Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.
I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe.
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.
As a Scandinavian, I like hopelessness and the weird austerity in the hopelessness of things.
Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.
Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.
The next five months are grim ones. I always feel sorry to have the summertime change, with the dark evenings closing in mid-afternoon, and will try to lay in some physical comforts these months - the best insurance against gloominess for me.
You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the death and soullessness of any party but it wasn't always so, believe me.
I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
Sadness can feel so unproductive.
Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
I think I am pretty much melancholic.
all this Beethoven and rain
There's so much light in Broughty Ferry. I think the humour in Glasgow is darker, because it's much more gloomy, there's a perpetual misery there.
There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.
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.
