And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Like cats' eyes gleaming in the gloom, the precious diamonds rest. — Robert B. Leighton Copy Share Image
“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The gospel of Jesus Christ is not a religion of mourning and gloom. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“Nonstop sunny days would be boring. We need the gloom to highlight the highs.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom. — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid,… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you'll release the weight of those burdens, you… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
At times I feel it almost impossible not to despond entirely of there ever being a better, brighter day for us. None… — Charlotte Forten Grimke Copy Share Image
“He went into the kitchen. It was eight in the evening. He tried to shut the bright spring evening out with the… — Arnaldur Indridason Copy Share Image
“...he seems to be on the brink of one of his bad spells again, one of the fits of lugubrious self-pity that… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Scuba diving, from the beginning, had an air of dangerous allure. Every landlocked schoolboy knew of its intriguing hazards: the bends, which… — Stephen Harrigan Copy Share Image
From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The "Kumulipo" is an old Hawaiian prayer chant that poetically describes the creation of the world. The word literally means "beginning-in-deep-darkness." Here… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room.… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
“Is happiness a sort of blissful state of mind or just a kind of surreal propensity? It may be hard to recognize… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou Light divine! Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine! Oft will the body's weakness check… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
“When by my solitary hearth I sit, And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom; When no fair dreams before my "mind's… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“On game day, until five o'clock or so, the white desert light held off the essential Sunday gloom—autumn sinking into winter, loneliness… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
