Dismal Quotes

99 Dismal quotes by 88 unique authors

Economics never was a dismal science. I should be a realistic science. — Paul Samuelson
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a… — Henry Van Dyke
Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the… — Gary Hamel
The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest… — Rush Limbaugh
You'd think if anyone could charm America into caring about the evening news, it would be Katie Couric, the Tri Delt from Virginia who became… — Rob Sheffield
Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing… — Martin Amis
You’re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?” Clive smiled. “I don’t know, should I?” Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective,… — Ted Dekker
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… — Nick Hornby
The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure. — George Bernard Shaw
I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood… — Vladimir Nabokov
It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a… — Murray Rothbard
My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers. — Woody Allen
The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect. — Charles Nodier
To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and… — Hermann Hesse
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,… — Nick Hornby
(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those districts… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Phresine showed him where he could sleep, in an interior room with no windows, a narrow bed, and a washstand. There were chests stacked along… — Megan Whalen Turner
Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for… — Lisa Kleypas
Suddenly reminded, she clapped a hand over her mouth. "Oh- Simon!" "No, I'm Jace," he said patiently. "Simon is the weaselly little one with the… — Cassandra Clare
I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world?… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated. — Ambrose Bierce
I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the same old corner of my same old couch in tears yet again… — Elizabeth Gilbert
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. — Christopher Hitchens
Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject… — Christopher Hitchens
It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing. — Cormac McCarthy

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