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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. -- Brandon Sanderson
The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn! -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Sweetheart, when you walk my way, Be it dark or be it day; Dreary winter, fairy May, I shall know and greet you. For each day of grief or grace Brings you nearer my embrace; Love hath fashioned your dear face, I shall know you when I meet you. -- Frank Lebby Stanton
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. -- George Eliot
I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. -- Hope Davis
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. -- Edgar Allan Poe
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
If people didn't read books on the subway, underground journeys would be dreary. -- Russell Smith
You're not going to be dreary on the inside if you're not dreary on the outside. -- Alexandra Stoddard
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. -- W. Somerset Maugham
A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through. -- Alex Kapranos
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. -- Lauren Lee Smith
Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine. -- Zebulon Pike
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language! -- Ivan Turgenev
The home is the center of your soul; it's a total reflection of your inner life. If you have a dreary home, it means you are dark inside. -- Alexandra Stoddard
It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time. -- Roddy Doyle
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
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. -- Victoria Moran
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness. -- George Borrow
Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world. -- Lawrence G. Lovasik
The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary. -- Robert Falcon Scott
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
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature. -- W. Somerset Maugham
I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary old teacher who suddenly, unannounced, manufactured a huge explosion in the middle of a totally boring monologue. From then on, all of his class wanted to make explosions. -- Robert Winston
I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn't feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It's a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful. -- Ariana Grande
In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool - and work that's cool isn't confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It's available to all of us and any of us. -- Tom Peters
From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled the heart to gaze on these barrens of Labrador. Indeed, I now dread every change of harbor, so horridly rugged and dangerous is the whole coast and country to the eye, and to the experienced man either of the sea or the land. -- John James Audubon
Once upon a midnight dreary -- Edgar Allan Poe
On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall. -- Friedrich Schiller
Life without laughing is a dreary blank. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys. -- Theodore Roethke
No life can be dreary when work is delight. -- Frances Ridley Havergal
England is very dreary, but I'm a people person. -- Quentin Crisp
Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary! -- Anton Chekhov
I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you? -- Julian Fellowes
Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work. -- Edith Hamilton
Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn't in you. -- Billy Graham
Everything was eternally dreary, dismal, damned. Even the weather was insolent and bitchy." -- Charles Bukowski
Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either. -- Mason Cooley
I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up. -- Jonathan Carroll
The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary, And I am near to fall, infirm and weary. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry. -- Erica Jong
There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory. -- Jaron Lanier
All those animals live a pretty dreary life, then they get chopped up and put on a griddle. -- Alec Baldwin
The real achievers are those who, in the dreary pit of sacrifice, still smile up at the goal. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot. -- Robert Frost
Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
I tried heroin. I shot up in high school, but I just thought it was so dreary: puking and nodding. -- John Waters
As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again -- Emily Bronte
Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations. -- Bennett Cerf
Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety? -- Daniel Goleman
It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days. -- Jamie Ford
The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear -- William C. Bryant
So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him. -- Will Durant
The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed. -- Lord Byron
I always figured I myself would never be lucky enough to die, I'd just live on and on in this increasingly dreary spiral. -- Jerry Stahl
I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls. -- Charles Stuart Calverley
The cold blast at the casement beats;The window-panes are white;The snow whirls through the empty streets;It is a dreary night! -- Epes Sargent
The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match. -- J.G. Farrell
OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground. -- Ambrose Bierce
Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was. -- Mary Daly
The moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl. -- Washington Irving
Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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. -- John Osborne
I was in disbelief that I'd just explained my dreary life to this bizarre, beautiful boy who may or may not despise me. Bella Swan -- Stephenie Meyer
Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approachesTam maun ride; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast in. -- Robert Burns
The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored. -- Charles Dickens
[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... -- Washington Irving
Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space. -- Johannes Kepler
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away. Poetic Verse by -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I drank a lot, but I wouldn't have missed it. I look back on it as sort of dreary enjoyment, because I don't have to be there anymore. -- Anthony Hopkins
Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next. -- Charles Spurgeon
We have not been left alone. We have the light of Christ and the Holy Ghost to lead and guide us in an otherwise very dark and dreary world. -- Robert D. Hales
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation. -- A. C. Benson
Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us. -- William Wordsworth
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? -- Emily Bronte
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. -- Napoleon Hill
...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. -- Louisa May Alcott
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. -- Allen Tate
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. -- Gretl Braun
From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness. -- George Borrow
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. -- Danielle Trussoni
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. -- Charlotte Bronte
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. -- William Butler Yeats
There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful...We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength. -- Amy Carmichael
On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh; The rocks moan wildly as it passes by; Hyssop and wormwood border all the strand, And not a flower adorns the dreary land. -- William C. Bryant
The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life. -- Hanya Yanagihara
With multiplayer, permanent death, and an ever-changing world to explore and conquer, 'A Valley Without Wind' might be the place you're looking for if you need to escape the same dreary titles. -- Rob Manuel
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
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. -- Richard M. Nixon
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. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home. -- L. Frank Baum
I think a lot of the most interesting immigrant writing involves stepping outside of that old, dreary binary. Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker is a great example. Same goes for Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior. -- Junot Diaz

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