Bleakness Quotes
- I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on… — George Saunders
- The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and… — Karel Capek
- You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Each of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. Â… When you face your… — John O'Donohue
- Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness. — Nick Hornby
- The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives; while… — Anne Lamott
- And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological… — Jack Kerouac
- The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of… — John Steinbeck
- under our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and I think we pitied ourselves… — Siri Hustvedt
- Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness. — John O'Donohue