Dreary Quotes - Page 2

• Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear

  William C. Bryant

  Sea, Conflict, Remembered

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• So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work, and materials in whizzing off to the moon to discover, as astronomers knew before, that it was just a dreary slag heap. This is the true, original and scientifically etymological meaning of being lunatics. Crying for the moon.

  Alan Watts

  Sunset, Moon, Night

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal”, p.116, Vintage

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• Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

  Albert Camus

  Running, Distance, Long

  Albert Camus (2006). “The fall”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't stop them from caring.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Wall, Caring, Thinking

  Brandon Sanderson (2012). “The Emperor's Soul”, p.111, Tachyon Publications

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• Once upon a midnight dreary

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Midnight

  "The Raven" l. 1 (1845)

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• An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.

  Alberto Moravia

  Heart, Hands, Evil

  Alberto Moravia (2011). “Contempt”, p.75, New York Review of Books

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• It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days.

  Jamie Ford

  Beautiful, Cold, Ends

  Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.73, Allison & Busby

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• Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fire, Clouds, West

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.51, Broadview Press

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• If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  People, Giving, Vices

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Across The Plains”, p.139, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Heart, Land

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.235, Penguin

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• The Christian is the person who sees every time and every situation, however dreary and repetitive, as God sees it - a fresh creation from his hand, demanding its own response in perhaps a wholly new and creative way. Under God he is free over it. He has won through to a purchase over events; he has risen with Christ.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christian, Hands, Creative

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• It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

  George Henry Borrow

  Parent, Vacuums, Laziness

  George Henry Borrow (2012). “The Pocket George Borrow”, p.73, tredition

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• So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

  Will Durant

  Running, Men, Circles

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again

  Emily Bronte

  Wall, Rain, Autumn

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• Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world; but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages. Alas for this infirm faith, this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow! I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Nature, Wall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.178, Penguin

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• When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most austere and the most remote, and a mathematician should be of all men the one who can most easily take refuge where, as Bertrand Russell says, "one at least of our nobler impulses can best escape from the dreary exile of the actual world."

  G. H. Hardy

  Art, Science, Men

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.143, Cambridge University Press

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• It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.

  Edith Hamilton

  Hard Work, Superficial, Hard

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• The trails of the world be countless, and most of the trails be tried; You tread on the heels of the many, till you come where the ways divide;And one lies safe in the sunlight, and the other is dreary and wan,But you look aslant at the Lone Trail, and the Lone Trail lures you on.

  Robert W. Service

  Lying, Looks, World

  Robert William Service, “The Lone Trail”

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• I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn't feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It's a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

  Ariana Grande

  Beautiful, Fun, Kids

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• Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn't in you.

  Billy Graham

  Loving God, Knowing God, Ifs

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Courage, Dark

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• At this time, we should renew our faith in God. We celebrate the hour in which God came to man. It is fitting that we should turn to Him. . . But there are many others who are away from their homes and their loved ones on this day. Thousands of our boys are on the cold and dreary battlefield of Korea. But all of us, at home, at war, wherever we may be, are within reach of God's love and power. We can all pray. We should all pray.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Home, Men

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• Thou wayfaring Jesus - a pilgrim and stranger, Exiled from heaven by love at Thy birth: Exiled again from Thy rest in the manger, A fugitive child 'mid the perils of earth - Cheer with Thy fellowship all who are weary, Wandering far from the land that they love: Guide every heart that is homeless and dreary, Safe to its home in Thy presence above.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Jesus, Children, Cheer

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

  Ivan Turgenev

  Country, Powerful, Fate

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (1994). “The essential Turgenev”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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• A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

  A. C. Benson

  Book, Giving, Needs

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