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  • Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

    Joy   Survival   Doe  
    Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.125, Simon and Schuster
  • Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.

  • I was morose that the Era of Barack Obama has returned us to a period where everything is racist, everyone is walking on eggshells, and you get the moral preening from white liberals who don't actually even know any black people. But, oh, do they love to get on their high horses and accuse Republicans of being racist for opposing very liberal government policies and a very liberal Democratic president. It's an extension of the civil rights label being slapped on gay marriage and abortion. Allow me to be bi-partisan for a moment, and love this moment because it won't last long.

    Horse   Gay   Long  
    Source: aalbc.com
  • Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

    Men   Past   Views  
    "History of England" by Thomas B. Macaulay, Vol. I, (Ch. 1), 1849-1861.
  • It’s very easy to capture pictures of jubilant people in the street after the nuclear bomb. But there were no pictures of morose people sitting in their kitchens and living rooms.

  • In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time considering and brooding over what we can't do, rather than what we can do, and instead of growing morose and despondent over opportunities either real or imaginary that are shut from us, let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer and upon which there is no color line; simply the survival of the fittest.

    Success   Real   Dark  
  • When I woke the next morning in my room at White's Motel, I showered and stood naked in front of the mirror, watching myself solemnly brush my teeth. I tried to feel something like excitement but came up only with a morose unease. Every now and then I could see myself-truly see myself-and a sentence would come to me, thundering like a god into my head, and as I saw myself then in front of that tarnished mirror what came was 'the woman with the hole in her heart'. That was me.

    Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.40, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .

    Success   Fields   Fame  
  • I've once gotten in trouble with certain gay activists because I'm not gay enough! I am a morose homosexual. I'm melancholy. Gay is the last adjective I would use to describe myself. The idea of being gay, like a little sparkler, never occurs to me. So if you ask me if I'm gay, I say no.

    Gay   Ideas   Lasts  
    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • The morose one refuses to smile even when he has just had his teeth cleaned.

    Smile   Sadness   Teeth  
  • Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces.

    Plato   Sacrifice   Grace  
    "Life of Marius", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 689, 1922.
  • A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.

    Jonathan Edwards (1824). “The Treatise on Religious Affections”, p.234
  • I have come to believe that large print, thick and heavy paper, and wide margins and oversize leading is indicative of the expected intelligence of the reader. … Compare children's books and books on Web Duhsign or other X-in-21-days books. If the reading level of a specification is below college level, chances are the people behind it are morons and the result morose.

    Children   Believe   Book  
    Re: "Well, I want to switch over to replace EMACS LISP with Guile." (Usenet article), groups.google.com. September 30, 2002.
  • I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

  • In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.

    Drama   Film   Used  
  • She had spent all her life in feeling miserable; this misery was her native element; its fluctuations, its varying depths, alone save her the impression of moving and living. What bothers me is that a sense of misery, and nothing else, is not enough to make a permanent soul. My enormous and morose Mademoiselle is all right on earth but impossible in eternity.

    Moving   Soul   Feelings  
  • Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

    Ellis Peters (2015). “A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs”, p.74, Open Road Media
  • Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

    Useless   Virtue   Morose  
    Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.113, University of Arizona Press
  • We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

    Life   Change   Positive  
    Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2010). “The Last Lecture: Lessons in Living”, Hodder Paperbacks
  • The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.

    Joy   Way   Sulky  
  • Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

    Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.171, Cambridge University Press
  • You're a superhero. Shut up and enjoy having superpowers. This makes me crazy. This is why the Marvel movies kick DC movies' asses right and left. Because, I'm not paying $15 for a movie to go watch people being morose about lives that are much more interesting and exciting than mine and they hate them. I'm paying my money to see people sort of revel in doing things that I can't do.

    Hate   Crazy   People  
  • Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.270, Harvard University Press
  • Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to the influence of religion, and yet what is changed, if the temper is not? If a man is as passionate, malicious, resentful, sullen, moody, or morose after his conversion as before it, what is he converted from or to?

    Men   Ideas   Passionate  
  • A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox.

    Joy   Insulting   Ants  
    Max O'Rell (1893). “John Bull and His Daughters”
  • I was always depressed growing up. There wasnt a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it.

    "Amanda Hocking, the writer who made millions by self-publishing online" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2012.
  • The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.

    Joy   Sulky   Theologian  
  • They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.

    Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.194
  • Avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason boys - to woo women - and in that endeavor, laziness will not do.

    Sad   Tired   Boys  
  • i'm never going to understand the Barrani." "You needn't sound so morose, Lord Kaylin. They are unlikely to understand you either." "Yes, but I'm unlikely to try to kill them for fun.

    Fun   Trying   Sound  
    Michelle Sagara (2012). “Cast in Peril”, p.126, LUNA
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