We are indeed miserable, my friends, but we don’t have to…

Everybody's still miserable in the same way they've always been miserable, and more and more of my friends - especially my male friends -…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Friends don't always make the best of business partners.

— Chris Campbell

True friends don't count favors.

— Anonymous

I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.

— E. Nesbit

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same…

— Neil Gaiman

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

— Margaret Atwood

I don't want to go out hunting for dismal topics to write about.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

“What, in nature," Kit asked, "is the most beautiful thing you've seen? Or the most terrible?" "The Dismals," Giles answered promptly. "A beautiful aberration…

— Sena Jeter Naslund

I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many, and…

— Michael Leunig

“A dismal omen: ...this morning a woman handed me a dollar bill that was translucent from age, as soft and warm as living tissue.”

— Kathleen Maher

A part of me looks at life from a dismal perspective, not unlike Woody Allen and Larry David. But I don't want to look…

— Corbin Bernsen

The fact is that the New Deal was, overall, a dismal failure.

— Mark Levin

Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science.

— Steven F. Hayward

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among…

— Paul Goodman