Bleak Quotes
140 quotes by 130 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution
— Haruki Murakami
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I told him I loved him,†she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.†Her eyes were wide…
— Jojo Moyes
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What if Park realized that all the things he thought were so mysterious and intriguing about her were actually just … bleak?
— Rainbow Rowell
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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
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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
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If Democrats start consistently winning Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, the electoral outlook for Republicans in the future is mighty bleak.
— Mark McKinnon
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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
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From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.
— Alice Morse Earle
Who Wrote These Bleak Quotes
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