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When he first returned to the Badlands in the summer of 1884, the austere landscape seemed to mirror his melancholy. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Father love is ancient and austere, like mountains. It is difficult to accept the collapsing of a mountain. — Glenn Haybittle

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. — Ambrose Bierce

It had the austere simplicity of fiction rather than the tangled woof of fact. — Raymond Chandler

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous ... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Tantric Zen is not being kinky; nor is it being conservative and austere. It is eclectic. It is a real mixture of all things. — Frederick Lenz

Among austere men intimacy involves shame
and is something precious. — Friedrich Nietzsche

An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also a little austere, but very kind. — L.M. Montgomery

Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude. — Eugene Delacroix

This is the whole secret of the practice of Elementalism: it obtains happiness by the most rigid and austere simplification of the means to happiness. — John Cowper Powys

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact. — Lemony Snicket

We might respect a serious person with an austere and rigid personality, but we adore merry, kindhearted, and artistic people. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere. — Corbin Bernsen

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. — Elinor Wylie

Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful. — Frederick Soddy

...bravery often demands a price. — Lemony Snicket

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real. — Ansel Adams

the more brutal or austere the diet, the harder it is to keep. — Padma Lakshmi

He carried a highly ecclesiastical umbrella, like something real and austere, that said its prayers at night in the hatstand. I — Sebastian Barry

Its somewhat austere and even forbidding limestone exterior, — Joyce Carol Oates

What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices? — Robert Hayden

Do what thou wilt, the most sublimely austere ethical precept ever uttered, despite its apparent license. — Aleister Crowley

It was the earring. Laurent was always so austere. The earring reframed him. It gave the appearance of a sensual side, sophisticated and subtle. — C.S. Pacat

Odd that a festival to celebrate the most austere of births should end up being all about conspicuous consumption. — Jeanette Winterson

She would have pondered over the meaninglessness of silent, austere beauty renewing itself with every sunrise and going ungazed at by half the world. — Harper Lee

I'm not an austere person. — Paul Farmer

I am an austere president. — Jose Mujica

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy. — Riccardo Muti

It shall be a duty and a pleasing sport to wander with Momus beneath the tropic stars where Melpomene once stalked austere. — O. Henry

Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite. — Nikos Kazantzakis

I am not partial to folk who are grim and austere. I prefer fanciful folk who make me laugh. — Jack Vance

The '40s were quite austere and super glamorous. — Paul Weller

He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed. — E. M. Forster