“Your eyes, now gleaming dark obsidian, Now deep and somber velvet jungle flowers.” — Gertrud Kolmar Copy Share Image
The real me is this deep, kind of somber person. I can't really help that. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
“Life is stranger than any of us expected, There is a somber, imponderable fate. Enigma rules, and the heart has no certainty.” — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
“Sorrow and pain come in somber colors with blackened curtains that cover windows of opportunity. This weighted down worry and heartache can… — Tekoa Manning Copy Share Image
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“I guess it’s safe to say that at any given moment it’s a somber time for somebody.” — Juliette Fay Copy Share Image
The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room. — Eleanor Porter Copy Share Image
Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“What remains of Beethoven? A frown, an improbable mane, and a somber voice intoning "Es muss seine!" ….And so n and so… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I recall his somber eyes during that last, private conversation. His eyes and his words, far too wise for a boy of… — Michelle Zink Copy Share Image
There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Some stories are rooted in adventure, some in strife. Others are born of the heart, and the horrors and the joys locked… — David E. Hilton Copy Share Image
The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In repose his face seemed to become darker still, and as the wattage of those green eyes fell their somber hue made… — Robert McCammon Copy Share Image
We must, with God's help, eradicate the deadly poison of the demon of anger from the depths of our souls. So long… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I heard the bells from the future churches, the children playing and laughing in the schoolyards [...] and here was an almond… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Traditional spirituality often made pleasure, joy, good feelings. the things to overcome. It said you couldn't just indulge in your desires; that… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
I want you cool and regal, earthy and impertinent, spoiling for a fight and abashed at your own temper. I want you… — Connie Brockway Copy Share Image
The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
That's the thing about being a Labrador retriever - you were born for fun. Seldom was your loopy, freewheeling mind cluttered by… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
“His last word—to live with,' she murmured. 'Don't you understand I loved him—I loved him—I loved him!' "I pulled myself together and… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“ ridendo dicere severum . (tr. Through what is laughable say what is somber.)” — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Copy Share Image