Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Stop being so...optimistic, its getting on my nerves." "No problem. Do you want me to be all gloom and doom or just… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the… — Mary Oliver 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
“Oh! sad is the night-time, The night-time of sorrow, When through the deep gloom, we catch but the boom Of the waves… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“In the double gloom of trees and fog, I could not see my guide; I could only follow his tread. Not the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Prim a doctor. She couldn't even dream of it in 12. Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Cassidy and I wouldn’t be friends if we met today. She’s blunt, even when she shouldn’t be. She’s cynical to the point… — A.O. Monk Copy Share Image
Here's what I say: We will ignore the cult of doom and gloom and embrace the cause of zoom and boom. We… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
It must have meant something, though, that at this turn of my life I grabbed up a book. Because it was in… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“In the pale evening gloom, when the soft fragrance of magnolias hung in the air, my heart would swell without warning, and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If the kingdom of God is within us and that is a kingdom of justice, of peace, and of joy then whoever… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“... If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near… — Paul Hoffman 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
“What a strange thing it is to wake up to a milk-white overcast June morning! The sun is hidden by a thick… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through… — David McCord Copy Share Image
“The twelve burros crane their scrawny necks in his direction when Brady emerges from the merc. He reaches into his greatcoat, pulls… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“I honestly can't remember much else about those years except a certain mood that permeated most of them, a melancholy feeling that… — Donna Tartt 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
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
Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life -… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom… — Zig Ziglar 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
“No matter what I'm doing, I cant help thinking about those who are gone. I catch myself laughing and remember that it's… — anne frank Copy Share Image
“A dark cloud of gloom settled itself on her head and began raining on her day. Her mood went from animated to… — Kiran Manral Copy Share Image
There are ghosts in the room. As I sit here alone, from the dark corners there They come out of the gloom,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“The Elephant of Depression wasn't just parked on my chest, it was relaxing there with the Walrus of Gloom and the Hippo… — Hester Browne 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
“self-pity was like quicksand. Dip one toe in and it slowly sucked in the rest of you, until you were drowning in… — Dale Mayer 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
Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I… — Jacqueline Wilson Copy Share Image
When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the… — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence… — James Keller 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
