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It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past. — Victor Hugo

They linked arms with him in a way K. had never walked with anyone before — Franz Kafka

And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze. — Oscar Wilde

Sombre and rich, the skies;
Great glooms, and starry plains.
Gently the night wind sighs;
Else a vast silence reigns. — Lionel Johnson

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall. — Cyril Connolly

Suddenly, out of its stale and drowsy air, the air of slaves,
Like lightning Europe le'pt forth,
Sombre, superb and terrible. — Walt Whitman

I only read books I know I will like — Vicky Unwin

Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, So, you're back from Moscow, eh? — P.G. Wodehouse

I encased my heart in stone so as to stop it from beating — Sonya Watson

Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion. — Mikhail Naimy

But right now I'm here with you. And I want to know where you are, what you need, and what you want to do. — Stephen Chbosky

I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, — Christopher Hitchens

Oh, sweet fuck of all fucks that are downright hot, hard and sweaty. I want this man. I want this walking, fuckable man-caramel. — K.M. Golland

She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments. — P.G. Wodehouse

But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked.
"Because, my friend, I judge it by the past. — Alexandre Dumas

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow. — Charles Dickens

The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life. — Oscar Wilde

Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren. — Jules Michelet

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night. — Haruki Murakami

A penumbra of sombre dignity has descended over his reputation. — James Atlas

You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
Spoken by Abigail Adams — David McCullough

The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes. — Willa Cather