What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

With multiplayer, permanent death, and an ever-changing world to explore and conquer, 'A Valley Without Wind' might be the place you're looking for if…

— Rob Manuel

Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“I'm afraid I always find Shakespeare terribly dreary. All those long scenes where everybody is drunk and it's supposed to be funny.”

— Agatha Christie

Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt,…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound…

— Francis Pharcellus Church

I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us. The wit…

— George Henry Lewes

There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation…

— Honore de Balzac

From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled…

— John James Audubon

I always figured I myself would never be lucky enough to die, I'd just live on and on in this increasingly dreary spiral.

— Jerry Stahl

If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary…

— Michael Leunig

Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now…

— Lani Guinier

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is…

— Robert Falcon Scott

Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.

— Jaron Lanier

Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?

— Daniel Goleman