Bleak Quotes - Page 7

• I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Kindness, Pride, People

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November 2003.

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• My conjecture is that most people will refuse to let go, even when their lives have become boring (at least in comparisons with possible lives lived by new generations). If this happens, there will eventually be no room for new generations. A kind of collective irrationality will lead to a bleak life for the last generation that decides to stay around. Unless we put and end to the human race (through global warming, for example), before this happens, individual egoism will block the path to a better world.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Letting Go, Block, Race

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• My quality of life is more amazing than I ever could've imagined in those 20 years of struggling with illness. In those 20 years, I did not know the meaning of the word hope. It was just a bleak, difficult existence. With all the gifts, with all the successes that I had, it was still an incredibly bleak way of living and I want to be a messenger of hope.

  Linda Hamilton

  Struggle, Years, Quality

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I get pretty dark sometimes, pretty bleak. But that passes.

  Mel Gibson

  Dark, Sometimes

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I knew the poor,
  I knew the hideous death they die,
  when famine lays its bleak hand on the door;
  I knew the rich,
  sated with merriment,
  who yet are sad.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Life, Knowledge, Doors

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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• Now '90210' is returning with an all-new cast of slightly more plausible teens. I'll be honest: I wish the old cast was back. Ideally, this spin-off would be an Ice Storm-esque exploration of the West Beverly gang's bleak adult lives.

  Diablo Cody

  Ice, Wish, Storm

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• Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers), caught between their conscience and the bleak horizon.

  Graham Swift

  Teacher, Children, School

  Graham Swift (1991). “Waterland”, Simon & Schuster

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• For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings are possible. Romance makes the promise that no matter how bleak things sometimes look, in the end everything will turn out right and true love will triumph -- and in an uncertain world, that's very comforting.

  Leigh Michaels

  Romance, Comforting, Promise

  Leigh Michaels (2007). “On Writing Romance: How to Craft a Novel That Sells”, p.5, Writer's Digest Books

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• Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mean, Men, Light

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.480

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• Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still alive now. You are alive with all the others, in this present moment. And because the truth is speaking in the work, it unlocks the heart. And there’s such a feeling and experience of adventure. It’s like a trumpet call to a great adventure. In all great adventures there comes a time when the little band of heroes feels totally outnumbered and bleak, like Frodo in Lord of the Rings or Pilgrim in Pilgrim’s Progress. You learn to say ‘It looks bleak. Big deal, it looks bleak.’

  Joanna Macy

  Hero, Heart, Adventure

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• And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one and in doing so linguistically shaping the world that you inhabit.

  Rosamund Lupton

  Crush, Optimistic, Negativity

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• When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?

  Charles Lamb

  Lying, Heart, World

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• I don't believe, for instance, that evolutionary biology or any scientific endeavor has much to say about love. I'm sure a lot can be learned about the importance of hormones and their effects on our feelings. But do the bleak implications of evolution have any impact on the love I feel for my family? Do they make me more likely to break the law of flaunt society's expectations of me? No. I simply does not follow that human relationships are meaningless just because we live in a godless universe subject to the natural laws of biology.

  Greg Graffin

  Believe, Impact, Law

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• The world has never before had as much drama as today. Radio, films, television and video inundate us with drama. But while these forms can engage or even enrage the audience, in none of them can the viewer’s response alter the artistic event itselfThat is why theatre is signing its own death warrant when it tries to play too safe. On the other hand, that is also the reason why, although its future often seems bleak, theatre will continue to live and to provoke.

  Girish Karnad

  Drama, Hands, Play

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• Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and my longtime working understanding and definition of it, noir stories are bleak, existential, alienated, pessimistic tales about losers--people who are so morally challenged that they cannot help but bring about their own ruin.

  Otto Penzler

  Art, Book, People

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• In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a courtyard with a small garden of plants that stay green all year. The winter is bleak. This place is primarily for the installation of art, necessarily for whatever architecture of my own that can be included in an existing situation, for work, and altogether for my idea of living.

  Donald Judd

  Summer, Art, Winter

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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• The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we fail to act quickly.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Climate, Faces, Crystals

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of almost anonymous American men who failed. With wit and sympathy, Sandage illuminates the grey world of credit evaluation, a little studied smothering arm of capitalism. This is history as it should be, a work of art exploring the social cost of our past.

  William S. McFeely

  Beautiful, Art, Writing

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• The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Ideas, Accepting

  Bobby Jones (1960). “Golf is My Game”

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• Enough generations of socialist policies have now passed for us to judge their effects. They are bleak. Socialism undermines the character of a nation and of its citizens. In simpler words, socialism makes people worse.

  Dennis Prager

  Character, People, Judging

  "Socialism Makes People Worse" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 21, 2006.

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• A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding its resonance and beauty so great as to demand another reading. As I read, I found myself devastated by the thoroughness of the book's annihilating sensibility and revived by the beauty of its language, the complexity of its design, the melancholy, horror and stoic sympathy in its rendering of what we used to call the human condition.

  Michael Silverblatt

  Reading, Book, Design

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• Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead.

  George Gilder

  Achievement, Effort, World

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.103, Regnery Publishing

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• Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.

  Nancy Reagan

  Losing, Hopeless, First Lady

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• Come, come thou bleak December wind,
  And blow the dry leaves from the tree!
  Flash, like a Love-thought, thro'me, Death
  And take a Life that wearies me.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Blow, Wind, Tree

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2011). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through his mind: anguish turnips conjunctions illness defeat string parties no parties urns desuetude disaffection claws loss Trebizond napkins shame stones distance fever Antipodes mush glaciers incoherence labels miasma amputation tides deceit mourning elsewards.

  Edward Gorey

  Distance, Twilight, Party

  Edward Gorey (1953). “The Unstrung Harp, Or, Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel”, Harcourt

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