A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.
P.G. WodehouseTags: humor misery moroseness subconscious
Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.
P.G. WodehouseTags: humor sorrow satire disappointment moroseness tolstoy russia
Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.
L.M. MontgomeryTags: moroseness
She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.
P.G. WodehouseTags: humor expression moroseness unhappiness sombre-mood ibsen
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