Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“Your eyes, now gleaming dark obsidian, Now deep and somber velvet jungle flowers.” — Gertrud Kolmar Copy Share Image
The real me is this deep, kind of somber person. I can't really help that. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a… — Donna Mills Copy Share Image
“A smile leaked from behind the boy’s somber face, and then the thing withered like a little flower growing someplace infirm.” — R.J. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Nature at times adds her own commentary to our actions with a kind of somber and considered eloquence, as though she were… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“It's in my blood, as magic is in yours." His mouth is still smiling, but his tone is somber. "I couldn't stop… — Elora Bishop Copy Share Image
“I was trying to be a better man, Perry. For you.” I shifted in my seat. “Dex…” “And I’ll keep trying,” he… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
“Sorrow and pain come in somber colors with blackened curtains that cover windows of opportunity. This weighted down worry and heartache can… — Tekoa Manning Copy Share Image
The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of… — Bruce Jay Friedman Copy Share Image
My parents loved music, and my father would come home with cassette tapes of Chic and the Village People and Barbra Streisand.… — Marjorie Gubelmann Copy Share Image
I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,'… — Iggy Azalea Copy Share Image
I think it's cool to play characters who are very joke-y and yet you can show a total serious, very somber side… — James Phelps Copy Share Image
“This deranged jungle of ironies coinhabits my skull like feathers and fireworks. My heart fills with stones. I am the mad aunt… — Ellen Meloy Copy Share Image
A lot of times we associate Greenpeace and climate change and shrinking polar caps with heavy-handed, weighty material. It's somber stuff. But… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
“The thing I hated while reading this book, it turns out, was me. Bad things happen, and shoulders are shrugged. The most… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
For a while I used to listen to those whispers about babies costing you books, and Cyril Connolly's loathsome quote that "There… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
“Bad things happen, and shoulders are shrugged. The most serious of events are blended with the strange. The author pulled me inside… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“She was tallish with dark hair which fell in waves around a pale and serious face. Standing still, alone, she seemed almost… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes… — Frank H. T. Rhodes 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
“ ridendo dicere severum . (tr. Through what is laughable say what is somber.)” — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Copy Share Image