Bleak Quotes

140 quotes by 135 authors

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there. — Danielle Steel
The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you. — Felix Dennis
...bleak territory of the heart. — Kim Edwards
A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or… — Toni Morrison
Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and… — Nick Hornby
Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in… — Richard Wright
So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure… — Joseph Heller
We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's… — Anne Lamott
In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on… — Christina Rossetti
He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on… — Cormac McCarthy
Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams. — Azar Nafisi
The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect. — Charles Nodier
How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried myself with more… — Rainer Maria Rilke
No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find… — John Kennedy Toole
Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had… — Marilynne Robinson
If there is a true measure of a person's soul, if there is a single gauge of real divinity, of how beautifully a fellow human… — Mark Morford
When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always… — Pittacus Lore
I knew right then you were the only one for me." He pulled her hand from his face, kissed her palm, then pressed it flat… — Tessa Dare
If you can get by with quotes from The Godfather and nothing you say matters, that's pretty bleak, don't you think? Don't we want what… — Joshua Ferris

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