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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
— Karl Philipp Moritz
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
— Thomas Carlyle
Ten minutes of careful searching later, Maelyn faced the dismal truth - she was bookless.
— Anita Valle
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
— Henry Van Dyke
The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect.
— Charles Nodier
No?" Jackaby tilted his head in mock sympathy. "It must be so dismal being you." "Only in present company," I teased back.
— William Ritter
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.
— Ambrose Bierce
But the dismal finances of geriatrics are only a symptom of a deeper reality: people have not insisted on a change in priorities.
— Atul Gawande
How dismal is progress without publicity.
— Theodore Dreiser
God promises that no matter how dismal the picture, He will take our problem and turn it into an opportunity for our growth.
— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
Come, then," returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough.
— Charles Dickens
I don't want to go out hunting for dismal topics to write about.
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
I had a sudden dismal view of my future, of being led around and asked incessantly, like one of those Verizon commercials, Do you feel sick now?
— Karen Marie Moning
The moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art ... these dismal moods have very little compensation.
— Edgar Degas
If you know me, I don't live in this dismal world. I mean, I like to have fun. My friends are comedians.
— Linda Blair
Everything was eternally dreary, dismal, damned. Even the weather was insolent and bitchy.
— Charles Bukowski
All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.
— Miguel De Unamuno
So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.
— Woody Allen
We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
— Northrop Frye
Whoso beset him roundWith dismal stories
Do but themselves confound;
His strength the more is. — John Bunyan
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
— George Packer
A journey is a dismal thing when there can be no homecoming.
— Stanislaw Lem
That dismal prison house within whose dungeons so many young faces put on the wrinkles of age,
— Mark Twain
Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science.
— Steven F. Hayward
In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines,
And Wind, that grand old harper, smote
His thunder-harp of pines. — Alexander Smith
Tom partly uncovered a dismal caricature of a
— Mark Twain
It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.
— Cormac McCarthy
My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Cited by the author of 'Lucky Jim' as one of the most dismal depressing questions in the English language: Shall we go straight in?
— Kingsley Amis
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
— Christopher Hitchens
The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
— George Bernard Shaw
It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
— Ann Radcliffe
thinking of us, our struggles and pain, grieves in me a song more dismal than the sparrows' protest to the morning rain
— John J. Geddes
Also, in the dismal Cold Waste, any man treasures illusions, though knowing them almost certainly to be such.
— Fritz Leiber
A dismal omen: ... this morning a woman handed me a dollar bill that was translucent from age, as soft and warm as living tissue.
— Kathleen Maher
At first a golfer excuses a dismal performance by claiming bad lies. With experience, he covers up with better ones.
— Lee P. Brown
It was dismal sitting there on rickety boxes in the pitchy darkness, but we smoked pipes and occasionally flashed our pocket lamps about.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.
— Louisa May Alcott
Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.
— Jeff Tweedy
I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.
— Burn Gorman
This diminished the entire joy, the pure joy, of the two notes sounding together, and let the sound die on her ear now with a dismal flatness.
— Virginia Woolf
Iran has a dismal record on human rights.
— Howard Berman
