“The unhoped was all but granted her. She could labour on in the valley of the shadow of books, for a ray… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
People do support themselves as artists and writers, so there's no need to be all doom and gloom about it. You just… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Even after the ringing stopped, the sound of the bell lingered through the evening gloom like the dust floating in the air.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I ask, ‘Is the cup half-empty or half-full?’ And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs,… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Though Jack Nubbins was extremely talented, Quenten Cassidy had viewed the Specter; when he reached down through the familiar layers of gloom… — John L. Parker Jr Copy Share Image
When you find yourselves a little gloomy, look around you and find somebody that is in a worse plight than yourself; go… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
To Hope "When by my solitary hearth I sit, And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom; When no fair dreams before… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
For in the night, unseen, a single warrior, In sombre harness mailed, Dreaded of man, and surnamed the Destroyer, The rampart wall… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Cassidy and I wouldn’t be friends if we met today. She’s blunt, even when she shouldn’t be. She’s cynical to the point… — A.O. Monk Copy Share Image
As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, a shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from the hushed and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“...literature must always be about gloom of one sort or another, on the principal that there is nothing interesting to be said… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The heart is delighted by the first, The other makes the mind go numb; Happiness and gloom like twins, Holding the hands… — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight… — Francis Scott Key Copy Share Image
I die just when I see the dawn break, Through the gloom of night, to herald the day; And if color is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My wind is turned to bitter north, That was so soft a south before; My sky, that shone so sunny bright, With… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“And at last, in its curved and imperceptible fall, the sun sank low, and from glowing white changed to a dull red… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom.… — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
Word of gloom from the war,one day; Johnston pressed at the front,they say. Little Giffen was up and away; A tearhis firstas… — Francis Orrery Ticknor Copy Share Image
“Acknowledge that some moments are just plain awful―desperate and gloomy and painful and miserable and nothing at all but anguish. No truthful,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Cold hearts are not anxious enough to doubt. Men who love will have their misgivings at times; that is not the evil.… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many… — Robert Fulton Copy Share Image
"And now you have joy?" "I do indeed." "And how did you get it?" "I chose it, admitted it into my life,… — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the… — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
Enter upon thy paths, O year! Thy paths, which all who breathe must tread, Which lead the Living to the Dead, I… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
