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Dismal Quotes by Nick Hornby
- That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile…
- Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there’s the size-doesn’t-matter-except-in-my-case problem,…
More Dismal Quotes
- 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,… — 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… — Jimmy Carter
- To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary… — Charles Dickens
- About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number… — Joshua Slocum
- When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Thomas Carlyle