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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
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
Keep on going, even when things look bleak.
— Ed Catmull
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
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
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 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
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 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
T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle,
And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. — Joseph Addison
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
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
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
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
What if Park realized that all the things he thought were so mysterious and intriguing about her were actually just ... bleak?
— Rainbow Rowell
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
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
Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about
There's scarce a bush. — William Shakespeare
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
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 can hardly remember my bleak life before you.
— Lauren Kate