Quotes About Bleak

This is a terrible place to die in. Where's a good one?

the bleak and shrouded earth went trundling past the sun and returned again as trackless and as unremarked as the path of any nameless sisterworld in the ancient dark beyond.

The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void.

The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again.

The shape of the city stood in the grayness like a charcoal drawing sketched across the waste.

The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect.

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.

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

Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.

We have a system that works fabulously well for products. But the one we have for people stinks. This is the lesson we've got to learn—or the human future on this planet is going to be a very bleak one indeed.

You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

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.

To be melancholy is to be self-haunted, and among the many reasons this is an unsatisfactory explanation for living inside a jam jar inside an aquarium, foremost among them is that there are no good stories to tell of your bleak time in a beautiful place, and no specter to blame for the fact that happiness, though it should have been inescapable, evaded you.

Envy is the coward side of Hate, and all her ways are bleak and desolate.

we get to Preston and find that it's depressing

The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.

I find 'EastEnders' so utterly bleak.

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.

Geography was the lesson I always looked forward to most. It was a form of escapism. It could be bleak midwinter outside but inside you're learning about African farming methods or the Great Lakes. No other lesson had that excitement.

bleak and beautiful expanse of lifeless isolation.

The world has never been as divided as it is now, what with religious wars, genocides, a lack of respect for the planet, economic crisis, depression, poverty, with everyone wanting instant solutions to at least some of the world's problems or their own. And things only look bleaker as we head into future.

And although I played along with him for a while so as not to prick his bubble, inside I felt pretty bleak indeed, because now I knew that he was going to be just as pliable and credulous as everyone else, he didn't appear to have anything close to the firepower I'd need to give me any hope of getting helped out of the trap of fraudulence and unhappiness I'd constructed for myself.

All dark and comfortless.

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.