Often, small things give me hope when big things feel so oppressively bleak. — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there. — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they? — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak. — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life. — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
Americans have long had a difficult time accepting just how bleak the English are willing to get for laughs. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single-sex private schools, especially in the middle of nowhere on a bleak hill in County Durham - I don't think they make… — Giles Deacon Copy Share Image
'Family Life' is a blueprint of my life. It was horrible and physically gruesome in a way the book doesn't attempt to… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
At some point he has to show that he has a vision of a better way. He can't just say 'The future… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
“Apartments in Crosscut weren't just depressing. They were wrist-slittingly bleak, and not quite as cheap as Madeline had imagined.” — Ellen Airgood Copy Share Image
We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness.… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Too many bleak years have passed over this little spot of Central Europe, and they've drained all the warmth out of this… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You're right, Halt,' she said, and he nodded acklowledgement of her backing down. 'Nice to hear someone else saying that for a… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
Two days like icebergs bleak, blank, half-melting, all frigid, mainly out of sight, and definitely a threat to peace of mind drifted… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“There is more than just grandeur in this view of life, bleak and cold though it can seem from under the security… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Oh Gertrud,' I cried, intolerably stirred by the bare mention of that bed, 'this is a bleak and mischievous world, isn't it?… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,'… — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Copy Share Image
The thing about tourism is just that it's incredibly powerful. It's like a gun and it's incredibly easy to be irresponsible with… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything.… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I feel like when we talk about post-apocalyptic themes that's what we're really talking about. We're always returning to this sense of… — Colin Stetson Copy Share Image
Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of… — William S. McFeely Copy Share Image
“Sunflower poised against the sunset, crackly bleak and dusty with the smut and smog and smoke of olden locomotives in its eye—… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way. — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s easy to be pessimistic about tomorrow when today seems so bleak.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
No terrain is too bleak, no distance too far that it will stop God from rescuing His own. — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
“Because you "love" people so much no matter how bleak things are you will never give up on this world.” — Hotaru Odagiri Copy Share Image
The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you. — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
