“Victory after all, I suppose!…Well, it seems a very gloomy business.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
There's so much light in Broughty Ferry. I think the humour in Glasgow is darker, because it's much more gloomy, there's a… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
You must rise above The gloomy clouds Covering the mountaintop Otherwise, how will you Ever see the brightness? — Ryokan Taigu Copy Share Image
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old. — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
“How Gloomy it is, to pause, to cease and to rust unburn, to get used and be indistinct. Like to live is… — Abhijit Tripathi Copy Share Image
If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“He’s a gloomy sort. I noticed that right away. When he smiles though, it’s like nothing I’ve ever seen. When he smiles… — Elizabeth Nicole Copy Share Image
An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
All the world loves a young emerging artist, and sometimes it seems that all the world wants to be one - on… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“But then an old man was discovered impaled in a ditch, and once again his world had started crumbling away beneath his… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, looks gloomy, has something of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In February, the overcast sky isn’t gloomy so much as neutral and vague. It’s a significant factor in the common experience of… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. — Stephen Rea Copy Share Image
