Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived…

“I considered; my life was so wretched it must be changed, or I must die. After a season of darkness and struggling, light broke…

— Charlotte Brontë

“My life seemed so wretched, the future so hopeless, the past so black!”

— Leo Tolstoy

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must…

— Dag Hammarskjold

An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.

— Hesiod

Money is life to us wretched mortals.

— Hesiod

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.

— Pema Chodron

“I can understand the ignorant masses loving to soak themselves in drink—oh, yes, it's very shocking that they should, of course—very shocking to us…

— Jerome K. Jerome

The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.

— Edward Jay Epstein

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

— Lord Byron

Teenage girls are extremists who see the world in black-and- white terms, missing shades of gray. Life is either marvelous or notworth living. School…

— Mary Pipher

Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by…

— Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

“The world isn't always black and white. sometimes, it's gray, and sometimes that gray explodes into colors you never knew existed before.”

— J.M. Darhower

The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands.

— George C. Wolfe

Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.…

— Cesare Pavese

How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its…

— Janet Fitch