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I like guitar sounds to be a little somber. — Joe Trohman

Catastrophes have a somber way of arranging things. — Victor Hugo

It's in my blood, as magic is in yours." His mouth is still smiling, but his tone is somber. "I couldn't stop writing even if I wanted to. — Elora Bishop

Reality isn't what it used to be. — Dean Koontz

Nature at times adds her own commentary to our actions with a kind of somber and considered eloquence, as though she were bidding us reflect. — Victor Hugo

I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing. — Chad Harbach

Human reality is often simultaneously somber and funny. — Tom Robbins

Ridendo dicere severum. (tr. Through what is laughable say what is somber.) — Friedrich Nietzsche

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor. — Manuel Puig

Somber Yellowstone Park and its colored hot springs, baby geysers, rainbows of bubbling mud - symbols of my passion. — Vladimir Nabokov

somber-looking monks. They sipped a watery soup from wooden spoons. No one spoke. The abbot pointed to a lone table against the far — Eliza Knight

People have found her somber, but it is sometimes because her humor is so deadpan dry that it escapes many. — Irin Carmon

I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being. — Cass McCombs

Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber. — Rachel Carson

Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality. — Jack Kerouac

Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics. — Alexander Smith

On Rahel's heart Pappachi's moth snapped open its somber wings. Out. In. And lifted its legs. Up. Down. — Arundhati Roy

Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint ... Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness. — Gustave Flaubert

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber. — Ugo Betti

What was worse, we asked among ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness? — Amy Tan

Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life. — Mary Ritter Beard

when love is eclipsed by power, the somber hues of shame darken life — Leon Wurmser

It doesn't have to be somber to be sacred. — David Wolpe

The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room. — Eleanor Porter

Cadaver dissection epitomizes, for many, the transformation of the somber, respectful student into the callous, arrogant doctor. — Paul Kalanithi

But now she's somber. The sunlight in her fine honey-brown hair does nothing to relinquish her from the grayness that overshadows her. — Lauren DeStefano

Life is stranger than any of us expected,
There is a somber, imponderable fate.
Enigma rules, and the heart has no certainty. — Richard Eberhart

From somber, serious sullen saints, save us, O Lord. — Teresa Giudice

If I am still a somber man, incapable of laughing whole-heartedly, — Malcolm Gladwell

Memento mori and obey the Lord.
Art and religion love the somber chord. — Robert Frost

We have said that Athos loved d'Artagnan like a child, and this somber and inflexible personage felt the anxiety of a parent for the young man. — Alexandre Dumas