Gloomy

“For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”
― Herman Melville

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.”
― J.G. Ballard, Crash

“People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.”
― Lyn Hejinian, My Life