Emile Durkheim

There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.

French Sociologist

Barbara Kingsolver

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.

American Novelist

Glenn Danzig

My image is dark and sombre. It fits my personality. The problem I always had with the people in the Misfits was that it was a put-on. You wouldn't see those guys walking around like that.

American Musician

Bruce Jay Friedman

The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.

Malcolm Muggeridge

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

British Journalist

Donna Mills

Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.

American Actress

Taylor Goldsmith

When we record a song, like 'Bedside Manner,' it's important that the next time I write a somber, mid-tempo song that we don't treat it the same way.

Manuel Puig

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

Argentinian Author

Melanie Martinez

The real me is this deep, kind of somber person. I can't really help that.

Joe Trohman

I like guitar sounds to be a little somber.

Use 'sombre' to describe scenes that evoke a dark, subdued visual experience.

Visual Imagery

'Sombre' is not limited to color only but also describes the overall gloomy atmosphere.

Not Just Color

'Sombre' carries emotional weight, often suggesting a sense of sadness or depression.

Emotional Weight

Describe someone's facial expression as 'sombre' to imply they are serious or grieving.

Facial Expressions

Often used where situations require solemnity, like at funerals or remembrance events.

Grave Contexts

'Sombre' isn't always negative, but can suggest a deep, thoughtful state.

Not Always Negative

 There are only five to six thousand known species, so a very large percentage of what is out there isn't really known. We thought we had a handle on all the reef fish diversity -- evidently not. I'm going to just close on a very somber note. At the beginning, I said I'd show you two extraordinary photographs.

Richard Pyle: Exploring...

 and this was not a party. It was a very somber gathering of the reporters that worked there during the war, humanitarian aid workers, and of course the brave and courageous people of Sarajevo themselves. And the thing that struck me the most, that broke my heart, was walking down the main street of Sarajevo,

Janine di Giovanni: What...

 it's just the bones of elephants. They have been known and very often return to the site where an elephant has died for years afterward, as if they are paying respects, like they are going to the grave site. And again, when they get there, they get very quiet, somber, reverential,

Jodi Picoult: Leaving...

 I was bad as bad as any he had ever seen hi I said and then I returned to the couch where i sat in silence for several moments thank you for coming Steve crumbling world word voice tell the clocks to stop time is time has come white is leaving Steve said sombrely I'm

A tale of mental illness...

 we started near the epicenter of the atomic bomb and the dome that's still partially standing a very sad very somber serious place but also the emblem of the tenacity and the tough spirit of people here in hiroshima they call it the peace memorial park

Hiroshima Photo Walk PIPE...

 laughed but this is how we move the message and moving that message is how we connect international interagency private-public and these social nets to help create security now let me hit a somber note this is a photograph of a

A Navy Admiral's...

 Yeah, we laugh, but this is how we move the message, and moving that message is how we connect international, interagency, private-public, and these social nets to help create security. Now, let me hit a somber note.

James Stavridis: How...

 She tends to prefer sort of darker, more neutral tones. And so I said, very helpfully, that I thought maybe she could go back upstairs and try to find something a little less somber. So, if looks could kill,

How to ask for help --...

 guests are bandied about freely among them and yet to me the jests are ghastly and the cheer is somber even I the

John Wesley Powell: From...

 somber but we had hours of difficult hiking ahead of us