Bleak Quotes

140 quotes by 130 authors

Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing - the sun is… — Bill Watterson
I think about my choice. Either outcome is bleak. If I stay and live through high school, go to college, get a job, what will… — Julie Anne Peters
Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were… — Charles Dickens
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 an occasional bleak… — Bill Watterson
He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it… — Jack London
That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution — Haruki Murakami
So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last… — Hermann Hesse
You're right, Halt,' she said, and he nodded acklowledgement of her backing down. 'Nice to hear someone else saying that for a change,' Will said… — John Flanagan
Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I've remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they're actually holding you together. The… — Sharon Shinn
My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of a sullen hollow… — Charlotte Bronte
I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and boundary… — Saul Williams
She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of… — Kristin Cashore
I told him I loved him,â€ she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. â€œAnd he just said it wasnâ€™t enough.â€ Her eyes were wide… — Jojo Moyes
What if Park realized that all the things he thought were so mysterious and intriguing about her were actually just â€¦ bleak? — Rainbow Rowell
Somebody finally has to get out an ad, often after hours. Somebody has to stare at a blank piece of paper. Probably nothing was ever… — Fairfax M. Cone
Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so… — Roger Bannister
If Democrats start consistently winning Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, the electoral outlook for Republicans in the future is mighty bleak. — Mark McKinnon
What does the future look like if the heads of society ask our young people to risk their lives for questionable causes? I think it… — Tracy Chapman
From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life. — Alice Morse Earle

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