If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied. — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
I think I'm less gloomy than I used to be - I've got a very supportive other half. — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure. — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To man, that was in th' evening made, Stars gave the first delight; Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
[I]n the gloomy month of February… The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise;… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
“By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis, Dark behind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
The rain reminds me of you, how cold you are, how gloomy you make me feel, how many tears I've shed because… — Cyhen Copy Share Image
Mirrors have come to mean much more than the original 'looking glass.' They are now a part of the decorative scheme of… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Caine met Diana's disbelieving gaze and laughed aloud. "Why so gloomy? Doesn't every little girl want to grow up to be a… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
“It was a dark afternoon, threatening rain and the end of the world, and done in that particularly gloomy gray in which… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Don’t be gloomy. Do not dwell on unkind things. Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight. Even if… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“He seemed to hasten the retreat of departing light by his very presence; the setting sun dipped sharply, as though fleeing before… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end-… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The day arrived,when myriad teary rivers flow and the muted wind faintly died in his tears—an altar for the beloved one's departure,for… — Nithin Purple Copy Share Image
Philosophy became a gloomy science, in the labyrinth of which people vainly tried to find the exit, called The Truth. — Edward Joseph Schwartz Copy Share Image
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
You fill the world around with happiness, with your lovely voice and lively presence. Now, that you are sick the world has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time... — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Well it's a gloomy, rainy old day to be here in London, but it could be worse; I could be in Saudi… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image