Top 296 Bleak Quotes & Sayings

I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.

The future looks a bit bleak to me.

Beautifully Bleak. I likened the hills encircling Canberra to the sea. They, like the sea, could be a sunny beguiling blue, or deep and inky. They could be distant and mysterious, or beautifully bleak as the wind tore across the plains from their snowy peaks. The hills were ever changing like the sea.

The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect.

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic.

I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.

I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. I have such passion for what I do that I can't see it as bleak. When people use that word, or “grim” or “gritty,” I just think, “Oh, come on, look a bit deeper.” My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.

A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.

Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.

I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.

My quality of life is more amazing than I ever could've imagined in those 20 years of struggling with illness. In those 20 years, I did not know the meaning of the word hope. It was just a bleak, difficult existence. With all the gifts, with all the successes that I had, it was still an incredibly bleak way of living and I want to be a messenger of hope.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about There's scarce a bush.

The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.

The future is kind of a bleak place.

'Bleak House' remains a great novel for me, and I love 'David Copperfield.'

'Bleak House' is like the best soap you could ever hope to watch.

'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.

The reason I'm interested in alternative worlds and near-future settings is that it allows us to look at our own limitations in our worldviews. These settings allow me to explore how our world might evolve if we allow individualistic kinds of success to remain our primary value. I'm not trying to be overly bleak, and I don't feel bleak or sad about our world. I want empowered and educated people who understand a lot about the world's challenges to strive to be noble, rather than cynical. I think we still need more champions out there.

People who really love you are the ones who stand firm by you when things are bleak.

Predictions of a disappearing political center are a warning of a bleak future that we can avoid only by adhering to our nation's founding principles.

Because no matter how much money we spend there [in Iraq], as long as the people there see this money as... as assistance that is unwelcome, as long as they continue to be humiliated in their own country by us... I mean, the future looked bleak, and the future after that was in fact very bleak.

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still alive now. You are alive with all the others, in this present moment. And because the truth is speaking in the work, it unlocks the heart. And there’s such a feeling and experience of adventure. It’s like a trumpet call to a great adventure. In all great adventures there comes a time when the little band of heroes feels totally outnumbered and bleak, like Frodo in Lord of the Rings or Pilgrim in Pilgrim’s Progress. You learn to say ‘It looks bleak. Big deal, it looks bleak.’

You can make bleak things funny but if you're glib about it, it doesn't work.

I don't think 'bleak' is a bad thing.

...bleak territory of the heart.

Single-sex private schools, especially in the middle of nowhere on a bleak hill in County Durham - I don't think they make sense.

I find 'EastEnders' so utterly bleak.

I can't do bleak, I always prefer to focus on the positive.

Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

A nasty day! A nasty day! 'Twas thus I heard a critic say Because the skies were bleak and gray— And yet it somehow seemed to me The day was all that it should be. I looked it very closely o'er; Its hours still were twenty-four, With sixty minutes each—no less— For deeds of good and helpfulness; And every second full of chance To give the day significance; And every hour full of growth For everybody but the sloth— I couldn't see it quite that way, For though the skies were bleak and gray The day itself, it seemed to me, Was all a day could rightly be.

During the late 1940s, Europe was a pretty bleak place.

The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be.

Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.

I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's.

The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.

Bleak Night' presented my first lead role in a long feature.

When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?

From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.

the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.

I dont walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. Its worse than bleak, its apocalyptic.

As a science fiction and fantasy writer, I used to love writing bleak, grimdark futures full of bleak, grimdark people. But I've found that as the world around me darkens, all I really want to do is grasp for more light.

I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was what they were calling musty, middle-class, and fascistic, a bleak period. Bleak was what the GDR was, and it alone had adopted, almost unchanged, Nazi Germany's methods of intimidation and ideas about propaganda and the use of force.

I hadn't read Dickens for a while and doing 'Bleak House' was great.

Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.

Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.

I love bleak things.

It's bleak behind the Iron Curtain, although they do have the strongest vodka I've ever had in my life.

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.

The world is such a blooming topsy-turvy, fragile, bleak place.

Bleak House by Charles Dickens is my favourite book.

Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.

Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak.

The only good thing about religion is the music. Because nature is filled with balances and opposites, there are always exceptions to the overall rules, whether the overall rules are bleak or otherwise. If you propound a joyous theory of existence, I will find an exception to that. If I propound a bleak theory, someone will find a joyous exception. That's just nature being nature, I think, and I don't think it offers a lot of hope. It's sort of a respite along the way.

We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren't careful.

Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.