Quotes About Dreary

Love, most likely. They don't know how dreary it is, how degrading.

There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.

The leaning of sophists toward the bypaths of apocrypha is a constant quantity. The highroads are dreary but they lead to the town.

No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,No comfortable feel in any member—No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds—November!

We live by rules in our land, and the rules are exacting and many. Trials and wishes come in threes, glossy fruit should be avoided, frogs must never be kissed unless you are ready for a commitment, and princesses, at least the warbling kind, should be ever so mindful of their mood swings - it is sunny when we are cheerful, dreary when we are sad, and stormy when we are driven to consult heinous hags in furtive matters of maleficent magic.

I saw an infinity of such dreary evenings stretching out ahead of me. Trapped in a dirty old house with a grieving old woman and an irritable young one. And with only the books I had brought with me, most of which were still in my trunk anyway.

Wait, it gets duller.

To me all palaces are preposterous, a tasteless, dreary expression of ostentation.

he's about as entertaining as ten pounds of asphalt.

It was a slate-gray day, featureless, drab, and cold.

The generation into which I was born was tedious.

at any rate there is nothing in the world more dreary, damping, and obscurely perturbing than to come out of a cinema in the afternoon to a noisy world.

Of all the miserable ways to spend a miserable Saturday morning in the miserable month of January, this had to be the miserablest. In fact, the most miserablest.

I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself had no strength and even no wish to escape.

I had had the job for three weeks. It was dreary. You couldn't read; they didn't like it. I would feel as if I were drugged, sitting there, watching those damned dolls, thinking what a success they would have made of their lives if they had been women. Satin skin, silk hair, velvet eyes, sawdust heart - all complete.

The room seemed suddenly filled with ghosts, the dreary shades of the politically correct era. (She probably refers to the years 2001-2012.

The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.

All dark and comfortless.

A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.

The days pass indistinguishably. Dull routine plods along in the wake of dull routine. Nothing, in short, Happens that has not already happened yesterday and the day before, and will almost certainly happen again the next day, and the next, and the next, ad infinitum. No

Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.

About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.

Dark and drear, fear and weep Are the spots where the Goobleys crawl and keep And their minds are small if they have them at all And their eyes are BIG!!!

What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science