Quotes of Dreary - somelinesforyou

“ There is nothing as boring as the truth. ”

- Charles Bukowski

“ He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Philosophy is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat which isn't there. ”

- Lord Bowen

“ It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride. ”

- John Mahoney

“ A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace. ”

- Walter de la Mare

“ Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. ”

- Edgar Allan Poe

“ There is nothing in the world more dreary than a prayer that attempts to inform God of anything at all. ”

- Edward N. West

“ When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Flowers grow out of dark moments. ”

- Corita Kent

“ Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things. ”

- Edward M. Forster

“ Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. ”

- Simone Weil

“ The dreadful dead of dark midnight. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles. ”

- Frank Miller

“ Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever! ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives. ”

- Gary Busey

“ Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed. ”

- Unknown

“ It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. ”

- Confucius

“ We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ When all candles be out, all cats be gray. ”

- John Heywood

“ I like boring things. ”

- Andy Warhol

“ On stage, I am in the dark. ”

- Maria Callas

“ It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work. ”

- Edith Hamilton

“ Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. ”

- Henry Longfellow

“ All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ It's in the preparation in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot. ”

- Diane Sawyer
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