Dreary Quotes

...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose.

Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

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

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

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

Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.

But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.

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.

[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time.

The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.

After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.

I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

Cold inthe earthand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime's all-serving wave?

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

It was just a terribly stressful situation and dreary. A few months after [Eva Braun] suicide attempt, [Adolf] Hitler moved us both to the apartment, it was in the summer.

I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl.

The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.

The dreary flies, lazy and casual, Stick to the ceiling, buzz along the wall. O heart, the spider shuffles from the mould Weaving, between the pinks and grapes, his pall.

There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.

I always figured I myself would never be lucky enough to die, I'd just live on and on in this increasingly dreary spiral.

A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.

I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans.

I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?

I actually prefer getting into roles that are the polar opposite of me; that's why I've done so many dark and dreary things.

All those animals live a pretty dreary life, then they get chopped up and put on a griddle.

But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded.

And I didn't think even eternity would be long enough to fix me.

You are my sunshine on a dark dreary day.