Bleak Quotes

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Khalil Gibran

Truth, Spring, Rebellion

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
Allen Klein

Humor, Attitude, Try

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Faith, Work, Hope

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.
Michael Novak

Hope, Lord, Endurance

Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.
Larry David

Until, Days, Started

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.
Robert Cormier

Life, Family, Great

Now '90210' is returning with an all-new cast of slightly more plausible teens. I'll be honest: I wish the old cast was back. Ideally, this spin-off would be an Ice Storm-esque exploration of the West Beverly gang's bleak adult lives.
Diablo Cody

Wish, Old, Honest

I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.
Peter Singer

Future, Society, America

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.
Arlen Specter

Election, Subject, Prospects

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.
Danielle Steel

Life, Hope, Give

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.
Sean Lennon

Time, Live, Everything

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
Alexander McCall Smith

Pictures, Paint, Painters

Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus.
Alexander McCall Smith

Focus, Problems, Able

A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.
Tom Hooper

Bad, Name, Dramas

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.
Roger Bannister

Life, Simple, Parents

He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.
Mark E. Smith

Him, Understand, Fall

I love bleak things.
Denise Mina

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
Walter Jon Williams

Job, Tough, Tell

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.
Simon Callow

Work, Poetry, House

I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.
Ann Beattie

Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'
Zoe Lister-Jones

Good, Women, Dating

To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.
Sarah Paulson

Hope, Impossible, Start

The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak.
Doug Elmendorf

Budget, Outlook, Federal

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