You can make bleak things funny but if you're glib about it, it doesn't work. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. — Andrea Arnold 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
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
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
When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone? — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me. — Paddy Considine Copy Share Image
“Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in… — David Goodis Copy Share Image
The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“And the bleak one? Bowen? What's his damage? Why does he look so bad?" "He lost someone verra close to him." "I'm… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
“What came to me later in those dark, dreaming hours put paid to that though and as always my mind led me… — Hannah Blatchford 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
Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life.… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
If you start asking how do we make life meaningful and life never ends, then you get into sort of these terrible… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
…Hold on a little longer—even when things look bleak. Know and remember this: the Lord loves you. He remembers you. And He… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf 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
'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's isle, and makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile... 'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er… — Joseph Addison 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
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
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
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
You can always accuse my records of being harrowing or dark or bleak. There is processing of trauma on my records and… — Erika M. Anderson Copy Share Image
I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there. — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
