It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight… — Francis Scott Key Copy Share Image
Though Jack Nubbins was extremely talented, Quenten Cassidy had viewed the Specter; when he reached down through the familiar layers of gloom… — John L. Parker Jr Copy Share Image
They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable; that when the real world is shut out, it… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow. — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“She set out for revenge, to run them through, to do what an elf, an elf must do.” The next verse was… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing? — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen,… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
When people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work. Kill the grimness with laughter. Encourage exuberance. Get rid of sad… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
We’re vampires,” he said. “Not fairies.” “Sometimes I’m not so sure about that. You see that study your king hangs out in?”… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is no single formula for good sentence. An invisible integument that gives the sentence wholeness and musicality, sometimes. But other times,… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
To ward off alienation and gloom, it is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past, and to look around… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers… — Ella Leya Copy Share Image
