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Quotes About Dreary

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Ten years as a day student in a dark lycée – dreary studies. All fighting spirit vanished under the slow oppression of Greek composition.
~ Unknown
I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.
~ John D. MacDonald
Something boring, so no one asks follow-up questions about it." "Accounting?
~ Marcus Sakey
Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.
~ Bennett Cerf
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
~ Somerset Maugham
Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear
~ William Cullen Bryant
Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific.
~ Abraham Cowley
This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of those unbridled passions, stretching over many years, and at times making their effect felt on several generations? We're a long way from Wuthering Heights, to say the least. The novel form is not conceived for depicting indifference or nothingness; a flatter, more terse, and dreary discourse would need to be invented.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Life itself is bound to be dreary if you carry a lot of baggage about.
~ Osamu Dazai
Oh, I could never go back to that work, it's so dreary and the last thing the world needs is another coffee table book.
~ Peter Cameron