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If Democrats start consistently winning Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, the electoral outlook for Republicans in the future is mighty bleak. — Mark McKinnon

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

I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. — Mark Leyner

Her despair may have gone, but it had left its heaviness draped over her, thick and bleak. — Laini Taylor

Because you "love" people so much no matter how bleak things are you will never give up on this world. — Hotaru Odagiri

It was too bleak to be alone, and so they could do nothing but cling to each other as broken beings, as human beings. — David Kirk

The largest two books I've ever read more than once are 'Bleak House' by Charles Dickens and 'The Stand' by Stephen King, about 1,200 pages each. — Simon Toyne

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

And my bleak heart became a little more his. — Jenny B. Jones

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

When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone? — Charles Lamb

The Girl does not dream. The Girl has never dreamed. — Emma Rose Kraus

The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be. — Laurence Overmire

When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope. — Pittacus Lore

The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you. — Felix Dennis

Suddenly angry, I cut off my bleak thoughts. No. I would not accept that. This was my story( ... ) — Julie Kagawa

As I'm sure you know, to be in one's own room, in one's own bed, can often make a bleak situation a little better. — Lemony Snicket

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

When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever," with confiding revulsion. — Emily Dickinson

Some girls look beautiful with no makeup on at all. I call them lazy. Now go throw some war paint on you bleak empty canvas you. — Dane Cook

Keep on going, even when things look bleak. — Ed Catmull

Theses bleak skies I hail, for they are kinder to me than ur fellow creatures . — Mary Shelley

The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect. — Charles Nodier

The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we fail to act quickly. — Joseph J. Romm

Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in a cell that had no door. — David Goodis

No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life. — Alice Morse Earle

Humanity was awful; humanity made you hurt. Humanity was a weakness that would kill everyone, one way or another. — Andrea Speed

I love bleak things. — Denise Mina

What'll be your biography? "At that point, life seemed pretty bleak. Then (insert your name) did a surprising thing... — Richard Bach

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

Yes, memories do haunt. Memories of a happy past, in the expectation of a bleak future, in a sad present. - Anita — Nilesh Sakpal

I've had very bleak experiences in hospitals, but they were also sometimes very funny. — Peter Capaldi

I dreamt of the Sun's demise, awoke to a bleak morning. — Anathema

I know for sure that everything will work out. No matter how crazy or bleak the situation is, it will work out. Everything passes, good and bad. — Xosha Roquemore

Has been argued with some justification that it is Anna's growing sense of bleak isolation that is the essence of her tragedy. There — Leo Tolstoy

What happened when there was no prospect of anything beyond this generation? What happened when... — Anne Corlett

At some point he has to show that he has a vision of a better way. He can't just say 'The future is bleak, follow me.' Because no one will. — Mark McKinnon

I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars. — Audre Lorde

No-one is going to sit down and read Bleak House to the family any more, but they can all huddle up happily in front of Charles Bronson. — Martin Amis

And in his eyes
The cold stars lighting, very old and bleak,
In different skies. — Wilfred Owen

I want to imagine wrinkled time, and forests thick with wolves, and bleak midnight moors — Carol Rifka Brunt

You stood with me in the bleak, black house. Don't let the light fool you. Don't leave me. What if you leave? — Annabel Joseph

No matter how bleak, there is still chance of love in hatred but none in indifference — Kiran Joshi

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

T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle,
And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. — Joseph Addison

This is one of those perfect moments, the kind I need to save up and remember for when things get bleak. — Pittacus Lore

The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. — Cormac McCarthy

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

I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters. — Burn Gorman

Will you take a picture? she said. I looked down at the bleak panorama and shook my head. How could I take a picture of nothing? — Patti Smith

Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes. — Susan Sontag

Some prospects for success seems bleak but are not with hard work — Sunday Adelaja

At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,
A fisherman stood aghast,
To see the form of a maiden fair,
Lashed close to a drifting mast. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The simple act of trusting God can be defined as acting as if God were going to keep His promises, however bleak the current circumstances may appear. — Robert J. Morgan

The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak. — Doug Elmendorf

Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate. — Charles Caleb Colton

Don't blame me. That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution. — Haruki Murakami

Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak. — Claire Denis

I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me. — Paddy Considine

Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past. — Arthur Golden

Towards evening. At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with — Charles Dickens

this is my landlord, Krook — Charles Dickens

Tuvalu's future at current levels of global warming is already bleak. Any further temperature increase will spell its total demise. — Enele Sopoaga

Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Without dramatic change in energy policy, the outlook for the global climate is bleak. — Wenonah Hauter

Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams. — Azar Nafisi

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

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

In the street, your mouth's a beak, big like a bird, and your future's bleak. — Kool Moe Dee

Life is a bleak place. Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first. — Tahereh Mafi

When everything around you seems bleak, sick and empty - the antidote is forgiveness and love of yourself, and others, plus a dollop of gratitude. — Jan Hellriegel

A dry, bookless world. It's too bleak to even imagine. — Cath Crowley

Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The future looks a bit bleak to me. — Paolo Bacigalupi

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

What if Park realized that all the things he thought were so mysterious and intriguing about her were actually just ... bleak? — Rainbow Rowell

People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it's one written in a very strange and complex way. — Aidan Gillen

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

Now the tea began to do its work- as it always did- and the world that only a few minutes previously had seemed so bleak started to seem less so. — Alexander McCall Smith

I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way. — Nouriel Roubini

Lucifer sang through the skies like a silver arrow; the bleak white steel of it, gleaming in the bleak blue emptiness of the evening. — G.K. Chesterton

The whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail. — M.C. Beaton

Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds
Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about
There's scarce a bush. — William Shakespeare

I stared up at the black chiffon and tried to imagine my eternity. It looked very bleak. Hopefully, insanity would claim me quickly. — Abbi Glines

But, Isobel thought with a bleak and sad smile, what better place to bury what was dead than in a cemetery? — Kelly Creagh

A good film is always nourishing. It's not about it being hopeful or bleak; it's about how it touches you, how it moves or stirs you. — Lisa Yuskavage

We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren't careful. — Marie Lu

Bleak House by Charles Dickens is my favourite book. — Trevor Phillips

...bleak territory of the heart. — Kim Edwards

We simply cannot afford to allow our government to go unscrutinised, most of all in amid the bleak seeming imperatives of the 'war on terror'. — Nick Harkaway

If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear. — Stephenie Meyer

No terrain is too bleak, no distance too far that it will stop God from rescuing His own. — Lynn Austin

I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. — Andrea Arnold

If good only came to those who deserved it, the world would be a bleak place. In — Kim Van Alkemade

I can hardly remember my bleak life before you. — Lauren Kate

Death didn't look as bad anymore. The future didn't look as bleak. Because when she pulled back ... when her eyes met mine, I saw hope. — Rachel Van Dyken