Dreary Quotes

• Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Rain, Fall, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.18, Library of America

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• The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Rain, Dark, Wind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Rainy Day”

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• Live in constant gratitude. No matter what the condition today, no matter how dark, how dreary, how painful and difficult....to day is merely the passing outcome of yesterday's nonsense. How you feel today, and what you give your attention to, builds tomorrow.

  James Arthur Ray

  Gratitude, Dark, Yesterday

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• The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
  It rains, and the wind in never weary;
  The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
  But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
  And the day is dark and dreary.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Rain, Fall

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.18, Library of America

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Midnight, Literature, Weak

  "The Raven" l. 1 (1845)

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• Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Clouds, Shining, Sun

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1865). “Household Poems”, p.20

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• What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

  George Eliot

  Life, Motivation, Literature

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.658, Oxford Paperbacks

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• 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

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• Into each life some rain must fall.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Rain, Fall

  "The Rainy Day" st. 3 (1842)

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• The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Hope, Wall, Fall

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Everyman's Poetry”, p.46, Hachette UK

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

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Funny, Death

  "What Happens When the Average Lifespan Hits 100?" by Megan Erickson, bigthink.com.

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• We know better than to think that Republicans can win only on the failures of Democrats. It still comes down to a contest of ideas, which is really good news, ladies and gentlemen, because when it's about ideas, the advantage goes to us. Against their dreary backdrop of arrogant bureaucracies, pointless mandates, reckless borrowing, willful retreat from the world and all that progressives have in store for us, the Republican Party stands as a great enduring alternative party.

  Paul Ryan

  Party, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• What's nice about the rain is you don't feel you have to live up to anything. Everything around you is so grey and wet and damp and dreary that you don't feel you have to smile and percolate as you do on a sunny spring day.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Nice, Spring, Rain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Feelings, Mind, Desert

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.773, Delphi Classics

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• God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.

  Maya Angelou

  Clouds, Chasing Rainbows, Moments

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 04, 2010

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• The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary,
  And I am near to fall, infirm and weary.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Sunshine, Shadow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.353, Wildside Press LLC

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• On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fall, Sunshine, Night

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.81

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• When the heart grows weary, all things seem dreary; When the burden grows heavy, the way seems long. Thank God for sending kind death as an ending, Like a grand Amen to a minor song.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Song, Heart

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1451, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Christian, Inspiration, Joy

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Violence, Absence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.499, Harvard University Press

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• The rain was dashing in torrents against the window-panes, and the wind sweeping in heavy and fitful gusts along the dreary and deserted streets, as a party of three persons sat over their wine, in that stately old pile which once formed the resort of the Irish Members, in College Green, Dublin, and went by the name of Daly's Clubhouse.

  Charles Lever

  Party, Rain, Book

  Charles Lever (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Lever (Illustrated)”, p.767, Delphi Classics

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• He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy - those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Eye, Dark, Compassion

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “The Valley of Fear”, p.76, ebookspub

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• Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ignorance, Gay, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.472, Lulu.com

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• Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire for rest, for friendship, for the sound of human voices? Could I now reclaim a single hour spent talking to my brother, Philip, and give it to Ken Daggart? Who made it our duty to accept, as the only reward for our work, the gray torture of pretending love for those who roused nothing but contempt?

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Giving Up, Talking

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• The clean clear colours were in my head. But one day as I looked at the brown burned wood of the Shanty, I thought 'I can paint one of those dismal-coloured paintings like the men. I think just for fun I will try - all low-toned and dreary with the tree besides the door.' In my next show, 'The Shanty' went up. The men seemed to approve of it. They seemed to think that maybe I was beginning to paint. That was my only low-toned dismal-coloured painting.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Fun, Men, Thinking

  "Some Memories of Drawings". Book by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1974.

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