In the street, your mouth's a beak, big like a bird, and your future's bleak. — Kool Moe Dee Copy Share Image
Often, small things give me hope when big things feel so oppressively bleak. — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid. — Charles Dickens 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
A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
I dont walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. Its worse than bleak, its apocalyptic. — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“Into the bleak mud, Time's books sink. Our eye-oh-yous erased in rot and error.” — Dominic Owen Mallary 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
“I stared up at the black chiffon and tried to imagine my eternity. It looked very bleak. Hopefully, insanity would claim me… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death theydie, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Somebody finally has to get out an ad, often after hours. Somebody has to stare at a blank piece of paper. Probably… — Fairfax M. Cone Copy Share Image
When you do well in school as a young person you can foresee a bountiful future for yourself. When you don't do… — George Chuvalo Copy Share Image
O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven;… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If a 25-year old can't read and write and he or she isn't gaining marketable skills, it doesn't matter if a Republican… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
“I'm fine," she said. But her smile was bleak, without light or warmth. And for the first time I thought of what… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
This sounds so bleak when I say it, but we need some delusions to keep us going. And the people who successfully… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing -… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
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
“An inn, of course, was a place you came to at night (not at three o'clock in the afternoon), preferably a rainy… — Mary Norton Copy Share Image
I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. I have such passion for what I do that I can't… — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image
“I don't want you to kill anyone at all," I say. "Not just Adam." Warner laughs a sharp, strange laugh. He looks… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense… — Michael Donaghy Copy Share Image
“Bleak as the scene was, though, there was growing joy in Inman's heart. He was nearing home; he could feel it in… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
