Top 226 Dreary Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

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

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

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

On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

For a 12-year-old with a hyperactive imagination who liked to dream of dreary gothic castles, suburban Florida felt a little stifling.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

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

On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh; The rocks moan wildly as it passes by; Hyssop and wormwood border all the strand, And not a flower adorns the dreary land.

No life can be dreary when work is delight.

To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to you and me as lookers-on, would be to describe the most dreary farce, to chronicle the most tautological twaddle. To take note of sighs, hand-squeezes, looks at the moon, and so forth--does this business become our dignity as historians? Come away from those foolish young people--they don't want us; and dreary as their farce is, and tautological as their twaddle, you may be sure it amuses them, and that they are happy enough without us.

All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life. And so long as this different life does not exist, I shall go on saying to people again and again: 'Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!'

Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

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.

Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!

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

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.

The Bronx always seemed very dreary to me.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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.

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.

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.

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

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind in never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Once upon a midnight dreary

The financial people, who lead such dreary lives, believe what they read and see on television.

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.

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.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.

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

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

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