It was 9pm, the fag end of another dismal day.

Snub end of a dismal year, deep in the dwarf orchard, The sky with its undercoat of blackwash and point stars, I stand in…

— Charles Wright

“Florence peered out her living room window. What a dismal day. No sun, just sullen gray clouds like yesterday. And no sign of the…

— Anonymous

“On a grim and dismal day that shattered my last ounce of confidence, I broke down and whimpered, “I’m awful and hideous and incompetent…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

— Karl Philipp Moritz

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

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

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

“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 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

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

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

“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

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

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

— Mark Levin

Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science.

— Steven F. Hayward