I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science.

— Steven F. Hayward

The fact is that the New Deal was, overall, a dismal failure.

— Mark Levin

A part of me looks at life from a dismal perspective, not unlike Woody Allen and Larry David. But I don't want to look…

— Corbin Bernsen

“A dismal omen: ...this morning a woman handed me a dollar bill that was translucent from age, as soft and warm as living tissue.”

— Kathleen Maher

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among…

— Paul Goodman

Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many, and…

— Michael Leunig

I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“What, in nature," Kit asked, "is the most beautiful thing you've seen? Or the most terrible?" "The Dismals," Giles answered promptly. "A beautiful aberration…

— Sena Jeter Naslund

I don't want to go out hunting for dismal topics to write about.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

— Margaret Atwood

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same…

— Neil Gaiman

I am wrapped in dismal thinking.

— William Shakespeare

Mike DeWine has been a dismal failure as Ohio's top cop.

— Richard Cordray

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

— Brendan Behan

“Economics is not a gay science. It is a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way…

— Thomas Carlyle