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141 Dreary quotes by 122 unique authors

To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to you and me… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute scrutiny… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. — George Eliot
Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread… — Lawrence G. Lovasik
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. — W. Somerset Maugham
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to… — W. Somerset Maugham
'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work… — Tom Peters
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. — Edgar Allan Poe
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. — Robert Louis Stevenson
I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary old teacher who suddenly,… — Robert Winston
I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How… — Emily Dickinson
...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on… — Louisa May Alcott
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society!… — Victor Hugo
The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind… — C.S. Lewis
I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up. — Jonathan Carroll
The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought, broken into the… — Audrey Niffenegger
In my life long study of human beings, I have found that no matter how hard they try, they have found no way yet to… — Jeff Lindsay
Little by little things began to assume a new aspect. The sense of insecurity vanished, words came of themselves, I was no longer so painfully… — Erich Maria Remarque
After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can… — Charlotte Bronte
No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be… — L. Frank Baum
This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of… — Michel Houellebecq
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into… — Rabindranath Tagore
The drab brown front of the house made it look as if it had been built from rusty spare parts. Someone always put lace curtains… — Sarah Rees Brennan

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