#bleak

I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it. ↗

— Peter Singer

#american #american society #away #bleak #continues

You do not know what all around you see in Esther Summerson, how many hearts she touches and awakens, what sacred admiration and what love she wins. --Mr. Woodcourt ↗

— Charles Dickens

#love

And you, being a good man, can pass it as such, and forgive and pity the dreamer, and be lenient and encouraging when he wakes?" --Rick "Indeed I can. What am I but another dreamer, Rick?" --Guardian ↗

— Charles Dickens

#forgiveness

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. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#always #bleak #family #family life #father

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

— Khalil Gibran

#bleak #desert #like #rebellion #spring

One went on and on, never dreaming of the sudden dreadful day when the coverings were going to be dropped and one would see it was death after all, that it had been death all the time, death pretending, death waiting ↗

— Elizabeth von Arnim

#death

A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It seemed to me that I was coming out of a suffocating nightmare and that the low clouds flying before the wind were the shreds of an evil dream. ↗

— Blaise Cendrars

#dark #imagery #inversion #dreams

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

— Larry David

#days #doing #i #some #standup

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

— Simon Callow

#bleak #house #huge #just #most

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

— Tom Hooper

#because #bleak #commercially #dramas #get