“An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.” — John piper Copy Share Image
You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
under our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and I think… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Her voice had become sharp with overtones of bleakness as her soul congealed and she ceased to move, as the instinctive, omnipresent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm really impotent against the overwhelming bleakness of the universe and the only thing I can do is my little gift [filmmaking]… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Courage to me means ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life-not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“London had grown unstable once again, revealing its true, capricious, tormented nature, its anguish of a city that had lost its sense… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
“You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
We are children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay. At root, there is only corruption, and the unstemmable… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
I also have just my own limits about stuff. I'm not interested in writing graphically about sexual assault for example. I feel… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Death appears as the harsh victory of the law of our ancestors of the dimension of our becoming. It is a fact… — Frere Dupont Copy Share Image
Each of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. Â… When… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“I’ve never seen her with the Sunday night blues—the bleakness that hits you when you know the weekend’s coming to an end… — Alretha Thomas Copy Share Image
Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration. — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“In the meantime, a massive and frightening bleakness inside me kept expanding and rattling. Sometimes I wrote about it in my diary,… — Ava Homa Copy Share Image
The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
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