Don't look at the present storm, but look to the Son coming.

I also have just my own limits about stuff. I'm not interested in writing graphically about sexual assault for example. I feel like the…

— Dan Chaon

We are children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay. At root, there is only corruption, and the unstemmable tide of…

— Peter Atkins

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

— Nick Hornby

The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives;…

— Anne Lamott

“You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet…

— John Steinbeck

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half,…

— George Saunders

I'm really impotent against the overwhelming bleakness of the universe and the only thing I can do is my little gift [filmmaking] and do…

— Woody Allen

“Death appears as the harsh victory of the law of our ancestors of the dimension of our becoming. It is a fact that, as…

— Frere Dupont

Each of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. Â… When you face…

— John O'Donohue

“Her voice had become sharp with overtones of bleakness as her soul congealed and she ceased to move, as the instinctive, omnipresent film of…

— Anonymous

The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam…

— Karel Capek

under our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and I think we pitied…

— Siri Hustvedt

“the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.”

— Evan Meekins

To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors…

— Adam Cohen