a song can't be beautiful unless it's in a minor key

With high suicide rates, unhealthy alcohol culture (very unhealthy), winter that lasts for half a year, people that have a penchant for falling into sulking silences, national epic where a heroine is raped and then drowns herself and a hero marries his sister and... also drowns himself, Finland is kind of depressing. It would be sad, if it didn't go so hilariously overboard. ...Did I mention that it's dark here for eight months out of twelve?

So, we might only have a dozen words for snow, but I just recently realized we might have a few words too many for ( pain. )

Any similar stories in other languages? (Or examples that I missed in Finnish.)