Kyle MacLachlan

I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.

American Actor

William Winwood Reade

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

Scottish Historian

Thomas de Quincey

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

English Author

Use 'cheerless' to describe environments or scenes that evoke sadness or lack of joy.

Mood Descriptor

Apply 'cheerless' to mirror a character's emotions by describing their surroundings.

Emotional Setting

'Cheerless' is not typically used to describe people directly, more their aura or situation.

Not Person Descriptor

Use 'cheerless' to highlight the emotional despair or hopelessness of a situation.

Emotional Impact

'Cheerless' often reflects how a location can influence mood, such as isolation or desolation.

Environmental Influence

A 'cheerless' place is not just physically cold, but also lacks warmth in a metaphorical sense.

Absence of Warmth

 You don't have to fly into space, obviously, to go to Antarctica. But it's not easy to get to. And it's not easy to sustain life there. At the very bottom of the world, there's a cheerless land where the long night is 125 degrees