Dismay Quote by George Orwell

“We are so used to having a lot of comfort in our lives—to being clean, warm, and well fed—that we forget how recent most…

— Bill Bryson

“Her smiles were blurred, as if seen from a moving train. Her eyes always creased at the edges by dreams of leaving.”

— Rupert Thomson

“I'm sure we all have dreams of leaving at some time in our lives, but when we reach the bottom, most of us go…

— Deborah Curtis

“It was hard to leave. But it was impossible to stay. He was leaving from choice because he was young and energetic and adventurous…

— Mary Balogh

“All my dreams of leaving, but beneath them I was afraid to go. I had clung to them, to Rass, yes, even to my…

— Katherine Paterson

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from…

— Sheri S. Tepper

But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend…

— William Blake

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather…

— Barbara Johnson

I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay.

— Jenna Bush

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we…

— Stephen Levine

I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum,…

— Dean Koontz

There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the…

— Anonymous