Dismal Light

Famous quotes containing the words dismal and/or light:

“My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)

“Accursed who brings to light of day
The writings I have cast away.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)