Bleaker Quotes

#1. Or perhaps it was that, unbeknownst
to Elena, they were linked by a far
bleaker tie, a tie that spoke of mothers
and blood.

Nalini Singh

#2. Softened by Time's consummate plush,
How sleek the woe appears
That threatened childhood's citadel
And undermined the years!
Bisected now by bleaker griefs,
We envy the despair
That devastated childhood's realm,
So easy to repair.

Emily Dickinson

#3. She's at the Fall carnival because this is the South, and the South fetes the bleaker months because it has a heart more for the terrible beating of black wings than the song of a whippoorwill.

L. Joseph Shosty

#4. Nothing is bleaker than the future, except perhaps the past.

Arthur Golden

#5. I've changed a lot since 1969, and so has the world; I'm more benign, the world is far bleaker, and the people in Love would now be edging nervously up to the middle age they thought could never happen, they thought the world would end first.

Angela Carter

#6. President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed president - his economy is bleak, his foreign policy bleaker, his vision for American even bleaker still. But he wins.

Ben Shapiro

#7. It's not a bad lesson to learn in the bleaker months: how you view a storm is a question of perspective; provided you find the right rock to watch it from, it could be the most incredible thing you'll ever witness.

Dan Stevens

#8. For there are fashions in myth, and the world-conquering West of the nineteenth century needed a philosophy of life in which realpolitik - victory for the tough people who face the bleak facts - was the guiding principle. Thus the bleaker the facts you face, the tougher you seem to be.

Alan W. Watts

#9. Summertime, and the reading is easy ... Well, maybe not easy, exactly, but July and August are hardly the months to start working your way through the works of Germanic philosophers. Save Hegel, Heidegger, and Husserl for the bleaker days of February.

Michael Dirda

#10. The witch-hunting McCarthy era found Hollywood's view of the press growing bleaker along with the decade's view of everything else.

Steve Erickson

#11. I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama.

Marianne Faithfull

#12. I basically read every book ever written about Marilyn Monroe.

Megan Fox

#13. I am happiest when I'm sitting on my parent's couch with the fire place on and talking to my family.

Shantel VanSanten

#14. Now, whom are we here to conspire against?' 'Poetry,' I said. 'Namely, Romeo's poetry.' 'Is it that bad?

Rachel Caine

#15. We opened El Bulli; there were no secrets there. The recipes were not secret. Anybody who came, the recipes were there for them. This was unthinkable then.

Ferran Adria

#16. The key to success is our will power full with confidence.

Kishore Bansal

#17. The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.

Ellen G. White

#18. All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Alexander Trocchi

#19. Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Francis Quarles

#20. Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.

Philip Sidney

#21. God!...If only I had not read so much Egyptology before coming to this land which is the fountain of all darkness and terror!

H.P. Lovecraft

#22. After a while you look at a picture and all it helps you remember is the picture. And then it gets kind of memorized and you hardly even see it.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#23. If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art.

Neil Gaiman