Sombre Quotes

29 quotes by 25 authors

On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert. Success… — Winston Churchill
For the Baul, life is not a serious thing. It is fun, it is laughter, it is joy. So you cannot find anything like the… — Rajneesh
Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and… — Winston Churchill
Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The silence and immobility… — Louis Bernacchi
Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and… — Charles Dickens
If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose sombre shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good… — Fridtjof Nansen
All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing… — Ian Mcewan
And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the… — Victor Hugo
Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren. — Jules Michelet
Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden… — C. J. Dennis
The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its… — Henry Ward Beecher
We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing else than our… — Rainer Maria Rilke
A penumbra of sombre dignity has descended over his reputation. — James Atlas
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall. — Cyril Connolly
When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had… — James Joyce
Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow,… — P.G. Wodehouse
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees,… — Victor Hugo
The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian… — Neil Gaiman
While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at… — C.S. Lewis
Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I… — Joseph Conrad

Who Wrote These Sombre Quotes

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