Awful Quote by Edward Lear

How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“On moonlight nights the long, straight street and dirty white walls, nowhere darkened by the shadow of a tree, their peace untroubled by footsteps…

— Albert Camus

“Tenderly he drew on his lambswool gloves, and shivered a little; for the breath of that desert blew snell and frore and there seemed…

— E.R. Eddison

Sombre and rich, the skies; Great glooms, and starry plains. Gently the night wind sighs; Else a vast silence reigns.

— Lionel Johnson

The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The night ... it is filled with bestial watchmen, trammeling the extremities and the interstices of the timeless city, portents fallen, constellated deities plummeting…

— Samuel R. Delany

As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had…

— Mark Helprin

“The crumpled butcherpaper mountains lay in sharp shadowfold under the long blue dusk and in the middle distance the glazed bed of a dry…

— Cormac McCarthy

Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was…

— Marie de France

“Slowly the golden memory of the dead sun fades from the hearts of the cold, sad clouds. Silent, like sorrowing children, the birds have…

— Jerome K Jerome

“From the dim regions beyond the mountains at the upper end of our encircled domain, there crept out a narrow and deep river, brighter…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“There is no darkness. It is all inhabited. It is dense with what has been cast off and barely survived, the events that also…

— Kate Braverman