Cheerless Quotes
11 quotes by 11 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.
— Emily Bronte
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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
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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: