Somber Quotes

44 Somber quotes by 43 unique authors

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
Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality. — Jack Kerouac
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint .... Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness. — Gustave Flaubert
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor. — Manuel Puig
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
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.
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
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
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
The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too… — Yasunari Kawabata
The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance… — Aberjhani
The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been… — Barry Commoner
To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones.… — Vincent Van Gogh
Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber. — Rachel Carson

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