Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
We have two lives about us,Two worlds in which we dwell,Within us and without us,Alternate Heaven and Hell:-Without, the somber Real,Within, our… — Richard Henry Stoddard Copy Share Image
The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“Sentenced to fade under the weight of external pressures—the eternal cycle of life at its most poignant. Whether we embrace it or… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
“I see ashes under the skin of her face. Disintegration. What terrible anxiety I feel. I want to put my arms around… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“I had the feeling that Nakajima was taking one aspect of me - the straightforward, easy-going part that emerged when I was… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“The thing I hated while reading this book, it turns out, was me. Bad things happen, and shoulders are shrugged. The most… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
For a while I used to listen to those whispers about babies costing you books, and Cyril Connolly's loathsome quote that "There… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
“Rose sat all alone in the big best parlor, with her little handkerchief laid ready to catch the first tear, for she… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Most people are surprised when they hear my somber figures: we know of 2 million species of plants, animals and microorganisms, and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If our spiritual past is somber and painful, let us try to simplify it, by acquiring true dedications that will assist us… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed;… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Every true-crime thing you see goes in with that kind of ominous music and low lighting, so to be able to talk… — Karen Kilgariff Copy Share Image
He pulled her back, off balance so that she fell against him, and he took her face in his two hands and… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be… — Bobby Ghosh Copy Share Image
There is, however, a somber point in the social outlook of Americans. Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve… And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky… — Elizabeth Kim Copy Share Image
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Unlike a novel, where you expect a different kind of arc that leaves us with a somber sense of resolution, I think… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians-when… — Joseph C. Aldrich Copy Share Image
I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style,… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
