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Ifs, buts, and perhapses, are sure murderers of peace and comfort. Doubts are dreary things in times of sorrow. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. — W. Somerset Maugham

You're not going to be dreary on the inside if you're not dreary on the outside. — Alexandra Stoddard

If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?"
"Walls can't think!"
"That doesn't stop them from caring. — Brandon Sanderson

Love drowns dreary thoughts
It gives wings to our heart,
It transports us into another world
A world of blissful choice — Balroop Singh

The home is the center of your soul; it's a total reflection of your inner life. If you have a dreary home, it means you are dark inside. — Alexandra Stoddard

I drank a lot, but I wouldn't have missed it. I look back on it as sort of dreary enjoyment, because I don't have to be there anymore. — Anthony Hopkins

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through. — Alex Kapranos

It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work. — Edith Hamilton

Parents, teachers, government - they all teach you how to live the dreary , deadening life of a slave, but nobody teaches you how to live normally. — Ryu Murakami

It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time. — Roddy Doyle

Such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb. — Herman Melville

Today was a rainy, dreary, wear-your-steel-toed-mud-shoes Wednesday. — Greg Pincus

I can imagine a life without you, but it seems impossible dreary, imperfect, unhappy. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

Oh, what a dark and dreary tune is the beating of my heart. — Ray Else

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning. — Victoria Moran

I was in disbelief that I'd just explained my dreary life to this bizarre, beautiful boy who may or may not despise me.
Bella Swan — Stephenie Meyer

People do not have to be dreary to be good. — Sally Holmes

Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array, -
Days of absence, I am weary;
She I love is far away.
Poetic Verse by — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys. — Theodore Roethke

The arts save us from a dreary skepticism. — Marty Rubin

Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Dying is a dull, dreary affair. my advice is that you have nothing whatever to with it. — W. Somerset Maugham

Once upon a midnight dreary, while — Edgar Allan Poe

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. — George Eliot

I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. — Hope Davis

The moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl. — Washington Irving

The leaning of sophists toward the bypaths of apocrypha is a constant quantity. The highroads are dreary but they lead to the town. — James Joyce

Into each life some rain must fall, Somedays must be dark and sad and dreary. — Louisa May Alcott

You are my sunshine on a dark dreary day. — Debasish Mridha

Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either. — Mason Cooley

Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety? — Daniel Goleman

The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I know for myself how the fruits of the gospel of Jesus Christ can transform lives from the ordinary and dreary to the extraordinary and sublime. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

It is a dreary world out there. It makes one thankful after all to be indoors with a fire burning in the hearth. — Mary Balogh

OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground. — Ambrose Bierce

I had a dreary, depressed feeling so deep in my soul that I was almost ready to believe I had one. — Victor Pelevin

The Bronx always seemed very dreary to me. — Amy Heckerling

Don't pause and be philosophical, because from a philosophical standpoint it's dreary. For us both." He — Philip K. Dick

If people didn't read books on the subway, underground journeys would be dreary. — Russell Smith

Life without laughing is a dreary blank. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans. — John Osborne

We have not been left alone. We have the light of Christ and the Holy Ghost to lead and guide us in an otherwise very dark and dreary world. — Robert D. Hales

The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored. — Charles Dickens

He felt, in a way so familiar as to be almost dreary, the chosen victim of the gods, the self-admitted traitor, the one destined for judgment. — Iris Murdoch

To me all palaces are preposterous, a tasteless, dreary expression of ostentation. — Charlie Chaplin

The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary,
And I am near to fall, infirm and weary. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you? — Julian Fellowes

All those animals live a pretty dreary life, then they get chopped up and put on a griddle. — Alec Baldwin

The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

And I didn't think even eternity would be long enough to fix me. — Sarah J. Maas

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him. — Will Durant

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry. — Erica Jong

Everything was eternally dreary, dismal, damned. Even the weather was insolent and bitchy. — Charles Bukowski

[I]n the gloomy month of February ... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time ... — Washington Irving

It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days. — Jamie Ford

Oh, I could never go back to that work, it's so dreary and the last thing the world needs is another coffee table book. — Peter Cameron

People have all sorts of pasts, sometimes dark or dreary, but perhaps the actions they choose in the present are the ones that carry the most weight. — Erin Bowman

You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story. — Jude Morgan

Oh, stow your whids, you dreary watering-pot, — Marion Chesney

There is only one sort of man who is absolutely to blame for his own misery, and that is the man who finds life dull and dreary. — H.G.Wells

The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match. — J.G. Farrell

Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations. — Bennett Cerf

Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of
what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was. — Mary Daly

The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed. — Lord Byron

There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I always figured I myself would never be lucky enough to die, I'd just live on and on in this increasingly dreary spiral. — Jerry Stahl

I tried heroin. I shot up in high school, but I just thought it was so dreary: puking and nodding. — John Waters

The real achievers are those who, in the dreary pit of sacrifice, still smile up at the goal. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Summary riposte
To the dreary wail
There's no knowing what
Love is all about.
Poets know a lot. — Robert Frost

Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space. — Johannes Kepler

Life is a dreary continuum made bearable by those moments of excitement. It's called feeling alive. — Lee Monroe

If thy morals make thee dreary, depend upon it they are wrong — Robert Louis Stevenson

The old church tower and garden wall
Are black with autumn rain
And dreary winds foreboding call
The darkness down again — Emily Bronte

He walked until his heart was as dreary as the sky, until some sort of truth came to him. — Eloisa James

No life can be dreary when work is delight. — Frances Ridley Havergal

...all i see are dark dreary rain clouds but it's okay because the sun always sets like an indian... — Robert Mirabal

The original fib was dreary enough, the additional biographical titbits positively inane. — Kate Morton

Once upon a midnight dreary — Edgar Allan Poe

If I ever thought of myself as a man of thirty-five it was a visualization of dreary decrepitude. — Siegfried Sassoon

Nothing beats camping out in a dreary Jotunheim forest while your friend stitches runes on a giant bowling bag! — Rick Riordan

There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory. — Jaron Lanier

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up. — Jonathan Carroll

To toil, to think, to long, to grieve,
Is such my future fate?
The morn was dreary, must the eve
Be also desolate? — Charlotte Bronte

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel
Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls. — Charles Stuart Calverley

Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear — William C. Bryant

The cold blast at the casement beats;The window-panes are white;The snow whirls through the empty streets;It is a dreary night! — Epes Sargent

I actually prefer getting into roles that are the polar opposite of me; that's why I've done so many dark and dreary things. — Lauren Lee Smith

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Leibniz's machine was designed to automate the dreary task of solving moral problems — Martin Cohen

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. — Robert Louis Stevenson

She seemed too beautiful and too ethereal to be part of this dreary landscape. — Richelle Mead