“ ridendo dicere severum . (tr. Through what is laughable say what is somber.)” — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“I am so tired. I have grown old from being serious. I have grown ill from being serious. I want to laugh… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“When he came home that night he was in a very somber mood, having begun to see at last how those might… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“When somebody tells me they’ve had a bad day, I always respond in a somber voice, “Yes, I’ve had one of those… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
When we record a song, like 'Bedside Manner,' it's important that the next time I write a somber, mid-tempo song that we… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint … Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“What was worse, we asked among ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Somber Yellowstone Park and its colored hot springs, baby geysers, rainbows of bubbling mud - symbols of my passion.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Every true-crime thing you see goes in with that kind of ominous music and low lighting, so to be able to talk… — Karen Kilgariff Copy Share Image
I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed;… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“I had the feeling that Nakajima was taking one aspect of me - the straightforward, easy-going part that emerged when I was… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“I see ashes under the skin of her face. Disintegration. What terrible anxiety I feel. I want to put my arms around… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“Sentenced to fade under the weight of external pressures—the eternal cycle of life at its most poignant. Whether we embrace it or… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Unlike a novel, where you expect a different kind of arc that leaves us with a somber sense of resolution, I think… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style,… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians-when… — Joseph C. Aldrich Copy Share Image
If our spiritual past is somber and painful, let us try to simplify it, by acquiring true dedications that will assist us… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
Most people are surprised when they hear my somber figures: we know of 2 million species of plants, animals and microorganisms, and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“Rose sat all alone in the big best parlor, with her little handkerchief laid ready to catch the first tear, for she… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune…Despair has steps leading upward. From… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“His last word—to live with,' she murmured. 'Don't you understand I loved him—I loved him—I loved him!' "I pulled myself together and… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The real me is this deep, kind of somber person. I can't really help that. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
“Your eyes, now gleaming dark obsidian, Now deep and somber velvet jungle flowers.” — Gertrud Kolmar Copy Share Image
