Sombre and rich, the skies; Great glooms, and starry…

“A trail made of pine needles and thistles leads you into the green darkness. The canopy casts shadows on old oaks and dogwoods, and…

— Kimberly Karalius

“For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge, I live alone, I look to die alone: Yet sometimes, when a wind sighs through…

— Christina Rossetti

The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on…

— Marina Warner

A penumbra of sombre dignity has descended over his reputation.

— James Atlas

Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire,…

— Winston Churchill

After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of…

— Ellen Glasgow

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all…

— Martin Amis

The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their…

— Charles Tennyson Turner

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

“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

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

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

— Anonymous