Because no Internet meme is validated unless it comes out in printed form, Keanu Reeves has used the uber popular "Sad Keanu" meme as inspiration for a book.

"Sad Keanu" hit last summer courtesy of a glorious paparazzi photo and the folks over at Reddit. Strangely enough, it took Reeves until October to find out about his own memetastic existence.

Still, he's apparently taking it all in good stride — in spite of the fact that he's had a rather hard life, jam-packed with things to be sad about (aside from Bill & Ted 3).

The New York Daily News reports that Reeves is out with a very limited edition book called Ode to Happiness — 4,000 copies are being sold in the UK. The book, which really started off as a joke, basically features a lot of ink blots with sad sayings under them. Sample: "I draw a hot sorrow bath."

"[I was listening to a radio station that] was playing, like, an orgy of depressing, self-pitying, nostalgic music," Reeves told the Daily News. "You know, 'I'm so lonely and I've been left and my heart is broken.' It was so voluptuously horrible. And I just started to write on this piece of paper, because I had this image of, you know, that moment when you take that bath, you light that candle, and you're really just kind of depressed. And it was making [my friend] laugh so hard."

Reeves also apparently hopes to pen another book called Haikus of Hope. "Basically like, 'I want to kill myself', and go from there," he told the publication.