Cheerless Quotes

11 quotes by 11 authors

The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in… — J. G. Holland
We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an… — Nikola Tesla
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics.… — William Winwood Reade
My daddy's face is a study. Winter moves into it and presides there. His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche, his eyebrows… — Toni Morrison
The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. — John Greenleaf Whittier
It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in… — Thomas de Quincey
The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its best to vex… — Robert Browning
Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,--… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day. — Emily Bronte
I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling… — Kyle MacLachlan
In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. No amount of gold or respectability would… — Henry David Thoreau

Who Wrote These Cheerless Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 11 Cheerless Quotes as follows: