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Something falls inside me. Sinks down deep. I look at my lap. A terrible leaden loneliness. Try to breathe under the weight of it.
— Amy McNamara
She was meaning and order and light, and now that she's gone, chaos falls like a dark leaden cloud.
— Christopher Moore
Time is passing : not leaden steppingBut sprinting on winged feet,
Quick silver slipping by. — Richard L. Ratliff
Return trips, to this day ... are simply invitations to dull trances or leaden slumber,
— John Irving
No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.
— Herbert Spencer
To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden.My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead. — Gail Carson Levine
I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.
— John Milius
First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
— Virginia Woolf
The fine wall of leaden crystal that had protected her heart - somehow numbed her into disbelief - shattered.
— Alice Sebold
I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.
— Hilaire Belloc
Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
— Edward Young
Fear is leaden. Courage is golden. Let go of the weight of the world, and you will fly.
— Dean F. Wilson
To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
— Felix Frankfurter
One can realise a thing in a single moment, but one loses it in the long hours that follow with leaden feet.
— Oscar Wilde
Time crawled past on leaden hands and knees.
— Sonya Hartnett
sunset, a red glow westering across the leaden sky.
— Lisa Kleypas
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
— Cyril Connolly
The leaden sky seemed to hold its breath.
— Eowyn Ivey