“Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! it is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life, Tom, are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these!”
Charles Dickens
“'Theocracy' has always been the synonym for a bleak and narrow, if not a fierce and blood-stained tyranny”
William Archer
“You could not give me toys in those bleak days; So when my playmates proudly boasted theirs, You caught me to the shelter of your arms, And taught me how to laugh away my tears”
DuBose Heyward
“The insurance payments are going to go away. The outlook remains very bleak.”
Jay Bryson
“Not knowing where or how I decide,I know now that I should never hide,Not knowing now or how I begin,I've always thought that you were a close friend,Here me now as I speak,I've always known you were bleak,As I hit the floor to my death,You laugh with every single breath...”
Olivia Lacy
“The second-quarter season is looking bleak,”
Michael Hughes
“It looked pretty bleak there for a minute.”
Dave Rose
