Dreary Quotes

• After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Solitude
  • Youth
  • Manhood

• The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Effort
  • Events
  • March

• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Weak
  • Midnight
  • Weary

• There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Genius
  • Creature
  • Dreary

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

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Reason
  • Shed
  • Dreary

• Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Laughter
  • Laughing
  • Blank

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

  

  Robert Frost
  • Love
  • Dreary
  • Riposte

• Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Sea
  • Conflict
  • Remembered

• It was a bad night to be about with such a feeling in one's heart. The rain was cold, pitiless and increasing. A damp, keen wind blew down the cross streets leading from the river. The fumes of the gas works seemed to fall with the rain. The roadway was muddy; the pavement greasy; the lamps burned dimly; and that dreary district of London looked its very gloomiest and worst.

  

  Charlotte Riddell
  • Night
  • London
  • Dreary