No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud,
Their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.
Source: Look for the Silver Lining, in Happy Days (1933), on The cheery souls who drop around after every catastrophe and think they are taking the curse off/By telling you about somebody who is even worse
-- Ogden Nash, (Aug 19 1902-1971), US poet; He was noted for off-beat poems like Candy is Dandy, But Liquor Is Quicker.