Quotes About Somber

Your eagerness betrays your patina of somber patience. Your desire unfolds with but a gentle touch.

I love bleak things.

Nobody moved for a time. We have lost the first of the ebb, said the Director, suddenly. I raised my head. The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky—seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

Haven't you got anything humorous that stays away from waters and valleys and God? I'd like to keep away from the subject of religion altogether if we can." The chaplain was apologetic. I'm sorry, sir, but just about all the prayers I know are rather somber in tone and make at least some passing reference to God.

The chaplain was apologetic. "I'm sorry, sir, but just about all the prayers I know are rather somber in tone and make at least some passing reference to God." "Then let's get some new ones. The men are already doing enough bitching about the missions I send them on without our rubbing it in with any sermons about God or death or Paradise. Why can't we take a more positive approach? Why

They are all. They are the soul, somber, surreal, bringers of pain, bringers of rapture. They do not kill; their love is pure, but different, not human.

The cheery quality of Ford's voice was beginning to grate on the barman's ears. It sounded like someone relentlessly playing the kazoo during one of the more somber passages of a war requiem.

It was no longer gay

Death is not a joke.

Life is stranger than any of us expected, There is a somber, imponderable fate. Enigma rules, and the heart has no certainty.

I am no fun at all. In fact, I am anti-fun. Not as in anti-violence, but as in anti-matter. I am not so much against fun - although I suppose I kind of am - as I am the opposite of fun. I suck the fun out of a room. Or perhaps I'm just a different kind of fun; the kind that leaves on bereft of hope; the kind of fun that ends in tears.

Weeping is like cleansing your soul. It's liberating and somber.

Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.

I was born with gloomy nature. I do not think I have ever known what it is to be cheerful and at ease.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

Steven couldn't help laughing at the somber dignity of her expression. Her very primness lured him, made him want to bring out the wildcat he expected she was hiding from the world and maybe even herself.

Nice day for a funeral.

I see ashes under the skin of her face. Disintegration. What terrible anxiety I feel. I want to put my arms around her. I feel her receding into death and I am willing to enter death to follow her, to embrace her. She is dying before my eyes. Her tantalizing, somber beauty is dying. Her strange, manlike strength.

En el café advierto cenizas bajo la piel de su rostro. Desintegración. Siento una terrible ansiedad. Siento ganas de abrazarla. Noto cómo retrocede hacia la muerte y yo estoy dispuesta a acoger la muerte para seguirla, para abrazarla. Se muere ante mis ojos. Su belleza provocadora y sombría se apaga. Su extraña, masculina fuerza.

I do not seem like a funny guy.

I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious.

Somber, yes, but light and beauty come together in you in a thousand different patterns.

He glanced at the huge somber portrait of Manfred Blackwood, my venerable ancestor.