Dreariness Quotes

#1. For later generations of women - post Sexual Revolution - enjoying sex was to become simply a duty, the perfect orgasm yet another thing to add to the list of required accomplishments; and when enjoyment becomes a duty, we're back in the land of dreariness of spirit.

Alice Munro

#2. Winter, then spring, summer, and soon autumn. All seasons are one, ice-cold, featureless, a hell of dreariness.

Daniel Arsand

#3. Righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

Lloyd Alexander

#4. It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.

Edgar Allan Poe

#5. Ask without pettiness Being before doing Convictions without compromise Discipline without dreariness Ask

Ravi Zacharias

#6. A dash of humor will only add intense gravity to the proceedings, even as a flash of lightning only makes midnight dreariness all the more impressive.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!

Henry David Thoreau

#8. She fancied herself superiour to her surroundings: surely there were higher things to live for. Yet the ugliness of this room was but a part of what she felt to be the dreariness of all life outside of books.

Helen Dawes Brown

#9. The adventure is which I have shared so passionately is not over
this adventure with its doubt, failure, the dreariness of no progress, then a glimpse of light, a hope, a hypothesis confirmed; and then after weeks and months of anxious perseverance, the intoxication of success.

Simone De Beauvoir

#10. To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands; we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.

Fay Weldon

#11. July 2. A beautiful day for Labrador. Went ashore and killed nothing, but was pleased with what I saw. The country is so grandly wild and desolate that I am charmed by its wonderful dreariness.

John James Audubon

#12. Out of the dreariness
Into its cheeriness
Come we in weariness,
Home.

Stephen Chalmers

#13. The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.

Arthur Koestler

#14. Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.

Frances Beinecke

#15. The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it.

Chuck Palahniuk

#16. I think these awards are always nice for a player but they also reflect well on the club. It shows that Arsenal's performance have been noted all around the world and it helps by having so many good players around me.

Dennis Bergkamp

#17. When Blue sang, a lyric became a libation; a song became a sacrament.

Pearl Cleage

#18. I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.

Blaise Pascal