Zawe Ashton Quotes

They are quite hopeless - drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips.

The Bronx always seemed very dreary to me.

I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like.

I like guitar sounds to be a little somber.

People tell me I look mournful. They say, 'Cheer up, Dan, it's not that bad!' Sometimes I just look into space, which freaks people out. If I was ever required to do anything other than look haunted, I could. I'm a happy person.

That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.

My tastes lean toward the more negative, angry and eclectic.

Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.

Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.

I don't want to read a book that's depressing.

Words have not only a definition... but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound.

The word 'embarrassing' is an insulting word, to tell you the truth.

I'm not always a smiley kind of guy.

Generally, I walk around in a glum mood.

I would never say, 'Ooh, let's do something really dark.'

We tend to dismiss things we don't particularly like, or that we find disturbing, as aberrations.

I'm not really good at writing sad sappy ballads. In terms of the lyrics not matching the vibe of the music, that's kind of the way my career has gone; everyone is a little confused about it all the time.

To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.

The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary.

There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out.

People always tell me "Have a nice day." Well what if I don't want to? What if I want to have a crappy day?

Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.

A frowning face can't bring out the beauty that you are.

Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind.

It's very crucial that you get your feelings out- but don't ever inflict harm on your body because your body is sacred