Famous quotes containing the word dreary:
“Bare woods, whose branches strain,
Deep caves and dreary main,—
Wail, for the world’s wrong.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“How dreary to be somebody.
How public—like a frog—
To tell your name the livelong June
To an admiring bog.”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
“I speak for an art ... weary of its puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further along a dreary road.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)