Somber Quotes
44 quotes by 43 authors
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Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes…
— Ugo Betti
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Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.
— Jack Kerouac
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint .... Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
— Gustave Flaubert
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The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light,…
— Alexander MacLaren
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Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and perfecting the events…
— Arthur W. Pink
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Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and…
— Elizabeth Kim
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That's the thing about being a Labrador retriever - you were born for fun. Seldom was your loopy, freewheeling mind cluttered by contemplation, and never…
— Carl Hiaasen
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Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs of…
— Frank H. T. Rhodes
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This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals…
— Helen Keller
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A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, the…
— John Steinbeck
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The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on…
— Noam Chomsky
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To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we…
— Henry David Thoreau
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We must, with God's help, eradicate the deadly poison of the demon of anger from the depths of our souls. So long as he dwells…
— John Cassian
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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
— Manuel Puig
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As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we…
— Victor Hugo
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Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing, and…
— Alfred de Musset
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I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed…
— Ralph Ellison
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The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where…
— Bruce Jay Friedman
Who Wrote These Somber Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 44 Somber Quotes, led by these top contributors: