I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a… — Shirley Henderson Copy Share Image
Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist. — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. And now and then it blazes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the… — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Have you, in truth, ever seen something so heartbreakingly lovely? What are we to make of a world where stars shine bright… — Kate DiCamillo 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
Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance. — John Hall Wheelock Copy Share Image
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
“When thunderstorms roll in, you make a choice to either succumb with tears to the gloomy downpour, or smile and look for… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I think to dwell continually on the dark side creates gloom and despair and anger and hatred, and that just adds to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Only Thee That I want thee, only thee---let my heart repeat without end. All desires that distract me, day and night, are… — Rabindranath Tagore 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
Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise… — Henri Frederic Amiel 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
In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom. — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
