Gloomy

“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

“You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way