Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast…

You must rise above The gloomy clouds Covering the mountaintop Otherwise, how will you Ever see the brightness?

— Ryokan Taigu

That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.

— John Dryden

London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

— Bayard Taylor

The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and cast anchor.…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis, Dark behind it rose…

— Anonymous

The gloomy theology of the orthodox--the Calvinists--I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions--nay, most of the notions--which orthodox people have of…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the…

— John Howard

The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.

— Charles Spurgeon

The past--the wild charge at the head of his men up San Juan Hill; the first years of his marriage when he worked late…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self,…

— Vincent Van Gogh

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

— Friedrich Schiller

Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of…

— Edward Young

It crosses my mind that our generation may leave problems that are simply too hard for human society in the generations that follow. The…

— Ross Garnaut

I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming…

— Wilfrid Sheed

In narrow and gloomy streets, keep your spirit high!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan