A rain of shadows, a storm, a squall! Daylight retreats…

Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they…

— Louis Sullivan

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.

— Emily Bronte

“Autumn knocks on the window. I pull back the sliding doors and let it in. Lights from the meat market flicker and car lights…

— Sarah Winman

Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

— Wilfred Owen

“We can never comprehend the depths of gloom of night in the light of day".”

— Matthew Strecher

Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person.

— Daryn Kagan

I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a…

— Amanda Burton

“Ye men of gloom and austerity, who paint the face of Infinite Benevolence with an eternal frown; read in the Everlasting Book, wide open…

— Doma Publishing House

“As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

When there's doom and gloom, don't forget there's darkness before dawn.

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

“Don’t you dare try to out-gloom me. I’m the only one here entitled to indulge in deep dark existential brooding.”

— Simon R. Green

No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain.…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,…

— Anonymous