Gloomy

“By the moonlight he watched his wife for the last time. His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love.”
― Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

“Why was I not overcome with nausea? At the time I had no such reaction. Perhaps nausea is simply an unconscious device of the egoist, who, when he hears of horrors outside the course of his present serene existence, allows only his stomach to respond”
― Shōhei Ōoka, Fires on the Plain

“When you suffer, I suffer with you. To the end I am close to you.”
― Shūsaku Endō, Silence

“I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.”
― J.G. Ballard, Crash