Dismal Quotes

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When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely. — Margaret Atwood
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse. — Brendan Behan
We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life. — Northrop Frye
The home is under siege. So many families are being destroyed...If anyone can change the dismal situation into which we are sliding, it is you.… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is the first step… — Jimmy Carter
To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen… — Charles Dickens
About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days, the… — Joshua Slocum
When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to… — W. S. Gilbert
So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of… — Robert Louis Stevenson
All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question. — Miguel de Unamuno
There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we… — M.F.K. Fisher
Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of… — Thomas Carlyle
Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy — Thomas Carlyle
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science. — Thomas Carlyle
And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair; And they heard the words it… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of the world and… — Albert Schweitzer
The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another entry in this… — Hans F. Sennholz
If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as… — Neil Gaiman
It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one! — Ann Radcliffe
The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral… — Ross Macdonald

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