“As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow. — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist. — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“The Sun can be your greatest gloom, or your greatest comforter, depending on how you view its shine.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing? — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope. — Philippe Cousteau, Jr Copy Share Image
When there's doom and gloom, don't forget there's darkness before dawn. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
“The encroaching darkness that shrouded him couldn't compare to the joyless gloom that hung in his heart.” — Loree Lough Copy Share Image
We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Who are you, Master?' he asked. 'Eh, what?' said Tom sitting up, and his eyes glinting in the gloom. 'Don't you know… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
When people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work. Kill the grimness with laughter. Encourage exuberance. Get rid of sad… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and… — Ian Holm Copy Share Image
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Have you, in truth, ever seen something so heartbreakingly lovely? What are we to make of a world where stars shine bright… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Today’s gloom was just such an exquisite affair. He reclined in it as other men might in a hot bath. There was… — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
I salute you! There is nothing I can give you which you have not; but there is much, that, while I cannot… — Giovanni Giocondo Copy Share Image
At times I feel it almost impossible not to despond entirely of there ever being a better, brighter day for us. None… — Charlotte Forten Grimke Copy Share Image
There is no single formula for good sentence. An invisible integument that gives the sentence wholeness and musicality, sometimes. But other times,… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“...he seems to be on the brink of one of his bad spells again, one of the fits of lugubrious self-pity that… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“He went into the kitchen. It was eight in the evening. He tried to shut the bright spring evening out with the… — Arnaldur Indridason Copy Share Image
I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back… — Shawn Thompson Copy Share Image
“Our city, these streets, I don't know why it makes me so depressed. That old familiar gloom that befalls the city dweller,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care:… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses-showers and sunshine bring,… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
You sleep with a dream of summer weather, wake to the thrum of rain—roped down by rain. Nothing out there but drop-heavy… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Love is the simplest of all earthly things. It needs no grandeur of celestial trust In more than what it is, no… — Arthur Davison Ficke Copy Share Image
“What a strange thing it is to wake up to a milk-white overcast June morning! The sun is hidden by a thick… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. Take joy. — Girolamo Savonarola Copy Share Image
Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance. — John Hall Wheelock Copy Share Image
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk. — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image