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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

The sky was gray, always a dismal gray that lightened and darkened as the day wore on. He had never known anything else. — A.M. Daily

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science. — Thomas Carlyle

data. Paul Collier is one of the few who has ventured a recent guess. He recently asked: "Is this dismal performance just an artifact of the data? — Morten Jerven

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

We're dismal enough without conjuring up ghosts and visions to perplex us. — Emily Bronte

Whoso beset him round
With 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

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely. — Margaret Atwood

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

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least. — Paul Goodman

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

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse. — Brendan Behan

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

The fact is that the New Deal was, overall, a dismal failure. — Mark Levin

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

in November was dismal. It was a time of short gray days and long — Sharon Cramer

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

Wallowing in self-pity was only warranted on rainy, dismal days. — Jenni James

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

The dream was in fact a lot like the Vancouver weather - a dismal sort of longing, a rainy dreamy sadness, a weight that shifted round the heart. — Alice Munro

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

The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived. — Rush Limbaugh

We are indeed miserable, my friends, but we don't have to be dismal about it. — Brian Herbert

Economics never was a dismal science. I should be a realistic science. — Paul Samuelson