Famous quotes containing the word bleak:
“Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow;Mvainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrowsorrow for the lost Lenore”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
“Stupid or smart, there wasnt much choice about what was going to happen to me ... Growing up was like falling into a hole.... I might not quit school, not while Mama had any say in the matter, but what difference would that make? What was I going to do in five years? Work in the textile mill? Join Mama at the diner? It all looked bleak to me. No wonder people got crazy as they grew up.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1953)
“Oh, nonio, Antonio!
Youre far too bleak and bonio!
And all that I wish,
You singular fish,
Is that you will quickly begonio.”
—Laura Elizabeth Richards (18501943)