Gloom Quotes

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most.

— Ulysses S. Grant

Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

— Lester Levenson

Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by

— Yann Martel

“Distress is fearful gloom.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I am not a 'doom and gloom' guy.

— Raghuram Rajan

A joke a day keeps the gloom away!

— Cesar Romero

You want me to be all doom and gloom, or just shut up?

— Stephenie Meyer

Growing up in Stockton wasn't all doom and gloom.

— Michael Tubbs

“The Sun can be your greatest gloom, or your greatest comforter, depending on how you view its shine.”

— Anthony Liccione

I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope.

— Philippe Cousteau, Jr

Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?

— William Dean Howells

The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.

— Hannah Kent

“As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.

— Aimee Mann

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

— Saul Alinsky

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

— Robert Burns

Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing; Out of the fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to…

— William Dean Howells

It used to hurt me in the past years to hear people say they want to leave India. But with the experience…

— Narendra Modi

Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom,…

— Charles Baudelaire

And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled.…

— George Sterling

We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's…

— Anonymous

The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her…

— Galileo Galilei

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

I want to offer particular congratulations to Andrea Leadsom on her stunning achievement. She is now well placed to win and replace…

— Boris Johnson

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

— Anonymous

O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a…

— Robert Browning

No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

New Haven cultivates ... an open gloom that seems happy to acknowledge disrepair and the superfluity of appearance. ... I realized that…

— Sara Suleri

The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room…

— William Hope Hodgson

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

— Martin Amis

Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument…

— Emma Goldman

“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

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

“The twelve burros crane their scrawny necks in his direction when Brady emerges from the merc. He reaches into his greatcoat, pulls…

— Blake Crouch

So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way…

— Nicholson Baker

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

Love is the simplest of all earthly things. It needs no grandeur of celestial trust In more than what it is, no…

— Arthur Davison Ficke

You sleep with a dream of summer weather, wake to the thrum of rain—roped down by rain. Nothing out there but drop-heavy…

— Anne Stevenson

The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses-showers and sunshine bring,…

— William C. Bryant