"bleak thoughts" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a pessimistic feeling about an uncertain situation. Example: My parents' divorce filled me with bleak thoughts about the future.
But on Sunday night he put such bleak thoughts to one side as he joined in the celebrations.
How could any columnist communicate such bleak thoughts, and how could any newspaper celebrate them on its front page?
After awhile, as I lay with my eyes closed, thinking bleak thoughts, I started to hear the cheery rattling sound of a power cord being tossed across the floor.
The American poet Robert Frost expressed his bleak thoughts in his poem, Desert Places, which ends with the stanza "They cannot scare me with their empty spaces / Between stars - on stars where no human race is.
(These are my thoughts in my bleakest moments, but they tend to predominate lately. In some ways, my new normal is thinking bleak thoughts until they seem not so bad anymore).
I mean, even when I was an alcoholic and I used to think about topping myself constantly and I was mired in these bleak thoughts at all times unless I was drunk... even in my lowest moments, I wasn't thinking stuff as bad as this.
Varying wildly, the shows can be bleak, thought-provoking, and often hilarious.
Somehow, though, this bleak thought-spiral apparently doesn't get O'Brien down.
The rooms were like cells, the tiny balcony (traffic noise amplified, 14 floors up) so bleak your thoughts naturally turned to leaping.
The view is simultaneously rich, bleak and thought-provoking: for three millennia, dynasties have come and gone, from the Sabaeans and Himyaris to the Umayyads of Damascus and the Abbasids of Baghdad.
The Roots, led by Ahmir (Questlove) Thompson on drums and the rapper Black Thought, are determined to focus attention on the bleak prospects of poor urban youth.
