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A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk,… — A. C. Benson
Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire… — Ayn Rand
When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes… — Giovanni Boccaccio
Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see no reason why… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful.… — Ariana Grande
It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump… — Roddy Doyle
Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn't in you. — Billy Graham
The trails of the world be countless, and most of the trails be tried; You tread on the heels of the many, till you come… — Robert W. Service
The Christian is the person who sees every time and every situation, however dreary and repetitive, as God sees it - a fresh creation from… — Evelyn Underhill
When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most… — G. H. Hardy
Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time... — Washington Irving
Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys. — Theodore Roethke
Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could… — Victoria Moran
I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts… — Danielle Trussoni
I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you? — Julian Fellowes
. . .this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through all the years… — William Wordsworth
I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy amount become too… — Edmund White
A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through. — Alex Kapranos
No life can be dreary when work is delight. — Frances Ridley Havergal
Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that minor… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls. — Charles Stuart Calverley
Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those… — Paul Cezanne
Long after their associates have gone southward, they linger like the last leaves on the tree. It is indeed "good-bye to summer" when the bluebirds… — Neltje Blanchan

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