Bleak Quotes - Page 5

• I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.

  Amy Seimetz

  Drama, Thinking, Causes

  "Amy Seimetz Discusses Her Busy Year and Why She Hates Being Labeled a ‘Breakout’". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. April 26, 2013.

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• Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing - the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn't going out. He says its colder because the earth's orbit is taking us farther from the sun. He says winter will be here soon. Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

  Bill Watterson

  Dad, Mean, Dark

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• At some point he has to show that he has a vision of a better way. He can't just say 'The future is bleak, follow me.' Because no one will.

  Mark McKinnon

  Vision, Way, Republican

  "Romney not into 'vision thing'" by Reid J. Epstein and Ginger Gibson, www.politico.com. May 27, 2012.

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• To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.

  Sarah Paulson

  Impossible, Get Real

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• I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first instinct was to withdraw from what was going on - the complexity, the death. It was a very bleak time.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Levels, Firsts

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• T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle,
  And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

  Joseph Addison

  Rocks, Liberty, Mountain

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.37

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• Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and hauntingly memorable poems are a bleak place full of life, prayer, and the kind of answers only poems like these can provide.

  Rachel Zucker

  Prayer, Book, Memorable

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• Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.

  Richard Wright

  World, Sake, Environment

  Richard Wright (1991). “Works: Later works: Black boy (American hunger) ; The outsider”

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• So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven?

  Joseph Heller

  Book, Men, Islands

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• As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.

  Samantha Power

  Country, War, Leader

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• The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.

  Felix Dennis

  Hate, Forests, Planets

  "This much I know: Felix Dennis". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2010.

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• How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried myself with more abandon in your loosened hair. How we waste our afflictions! We study them, stare out beyond them into bleak continuance, hoping to glimpse some end. Whereas they're really our wintering foliage, our dark greens of meaning, one of the seasons of the clandestine year -- ; not only a season --: they're site, settlement, shelter, soil, abode.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Grief, Dark, Night

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Lou Andreas-Salomé (2008). “Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters”, p.297, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Two days like icebergs bleak, blank, half-melting, all frigid, mainly out of sight, and definitely a threat to peace of mind drifted by and were good to put behind.

  Roger Zelazny

  Sight, Two, Mind

  Roger Zelazny (2009). “Threshold”, Nesfa Press

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• The thing about tourism is just that it's incredibly powerful. It's like a gun and it's incredibly easy to be irresponsible with it. And the speed of the impact that tourism can have on a place can be quite breathtaking. It doesn't take years, it takes months. That's how quickly it works. And it can be quite a bleak thing to witness.

  Alex Garland

  Powerful, Gun, Years

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• I think we tend to write more uplifting and vibrant music when we're in bleak and lonely surroundings. I think it's because you're channeling your loneliness in a way that you're trying to escape to your situation.

  Ed MacFarlane

  Uplifting, Lonely, Loneliness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Charles Nodier

  Winter, Long, Aspect

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• This sounds so bleak when I say it, but we need some delusions to keep us going. And the people who successfully delude themselves seem happier than the people who can't.

  Woody Allen

  People, Sound, Needs

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• I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.

  James A. Baldwin

  Childhood, Usual, Stories

  "Autobiographical Notes" by James A. Baldwin (1952), republished in James A. Baldwin "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), archive.nytimes.com.

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• I'm not trying to write a bleak and blistering screed against American civilization. I'm writing something that I hope is fun and satirical and full of possibility.

  Mark Russell

  Fun, Writing, Civilization

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.

  Tom Hooper

  Drama, Names

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• No-one is going to sit down and read Bleak House to the family any more, but they can all huddle up happily in front of Charles Bronson.

  Martin Amis

  House, Down And, Fronts

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• When you do well in school as a young person you can foresee a bountiful future for yourself. When you don't do well, the future you see is bleak. It's tough to find an honour student in trouble with the law. We have to feel that we're of value and we get that from people reacting to our prudence.

  George Chuvalo

  School, Law, People

  Source: fightnetwork.com

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• Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

  Arthur Young

  Men, Garden, Rocks

  Arthur Young (1792). “Travels during the years 1787, 1788, and 1789: undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity of the kingdom of France”, p.37

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• If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fear, Design, Doubt

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• Having seen Justin's work on Bleak House, I knew that he'd be incredibly well prepared and interesting stylistically for this and that was definitely the case. It's very liberating for actors - and I can only speak for myself here - but he creates a very loose environment and he's a great collaborator.

  Eric Bana

  Interesting, House, Actors

  "The Other Boleyn Girl - Eric Bana interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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