They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will… — Zoe Lister-Jones Copy Share Image
I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
If you can get by with quotes from The Godfather and nothing you say matters, that's pretty bleak, don't you think? Don't… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
Silent rushes the swift Lord Through ruined systems still restored, Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless, Plants with worlds the wilderness; Waters… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
If Democrats start consistently winning Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, the electoral outlook for Republicans in the future is mighty bleak. — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of struggles with depression. It's very easy for me to go to a bleak place, or for me… — Melanie Lynskey 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
Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings… — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
'In the Wake' was a very bleak book. This relationship was not too good, the father and son. This time around, I… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
In one way, it is this sense of order and also love that, I think, really saved Eleanor Roosevelt's life. And in… — Blanche Wiesen Cook 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
A religion is a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
