Bleak Quotes - Page 9

• If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come at it in a bleak moment, it can feel like a very dark place to share. It's all down to the listener.

  PJ Harvey

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Optimistic

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, music.avclub.com. December 12, 2007.

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• The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be.

  Laurence Overmire

  People, World, Might

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• Roy, the guy I play in 'The Grifters,' is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had him at 13, and then when she was 17 or 18 and he was 4 or 5, they were trapped in a small Texas town somewhere, and she was ready to do anything to get out.

  John Cusack

  Mother, Texas, Play

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• Tuvalu's future at current levels of global warming is already bleak. Any further temperature increase will spell its total demise.

  Enele Sopoaga

  Demise, Levels, Temperature

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What we were also trying to do is vary the tone slightly across the season of Black Mirror, because there are six stories this time around, so you don't want it to just be the devastating, bleak-em-up.

  Charlie Brooker

  Mirrors, Black, Trying

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• If you start asking how do we make life meaningful and life never ends, then you get into sort of these terrible sort of metaphysical quandaries and it gets really, really bleak looking.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Meaningful, Meaning Of Life, Metaphysical

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.

  Pittacus Lore

  Hope, Thinking, Track

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• Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Home, Dark

  Charles Dickens “Oliver Twist”, Lulu.com

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• So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Sex, Pleasure Love

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