Oscar Wilde Depressing Quotations

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet’s dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.