“The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect.”
“Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness.”
“To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature.”
“My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping.”
“Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.”
“He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.”