To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

It never took her long to darken any conversation, as from birth she was inclined to see misery in each and every story, and to fabricate some when there was none.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

I am a manifestation of misery and torment with veins pumping agony. I am the darkness that makes blossoms of hope wilt away.

Because of the uncertainty surrounding the current litigation, NCUA would be derelict if it did not take the action it takes today.