Sombre Quotes
29 Sombre quotes by 25 unique authors
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Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and…
— Charles Dickens
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Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion.
— Mikhail Naimy
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Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,—call it which you will,—is a book…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned; the way the red light, breaking at the close from…
— Henry James
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But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.
— Alexandre Dumas
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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.
— Oscar Wilde
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The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation…
— Joseph Conrad
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Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful…
— Erik Larson
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Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating; Winking at the blushing trees, And…
— Will Carleton
Who Wrote These Sombre Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 29 Sombre Quotes as follows: