“To me, Gothic fiction is the literary representation of the stormy gloom of the British Isles.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness? — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk. — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room. — Sammy Cahn 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
I'm weary of my lonely but And of its blasted tree, The very lake is like my lot, So silent constantly-- I've… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
“A dread came over him. Everything around him was gray. Nothing tasted good or looked good. It was as if a metallic… — Anne Rice 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
“When people fear for their futures, they like to gather in a dark room and stare at a screen, holding hands against… — David Carr Copy Share Image
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The heart that is constantly overflowing with gratitude will be safe from those attacks of resentfulness and gloom that bother so many… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They… — Charles Tennyson Turner Copy Share Image
The very names assigned to angels by their Creator, convey to us ideas pre-eminently pleasing, fitted to captivate the heart, and exalt… — Timothy Dwight V Copy Share Image
My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“When you behold an aspect for whose constant gloom and frown you cannot account, whose unvarying cloud exasperates you by its apparent… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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
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
Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper… — Joseph Conrad 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
...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Despite all the doom and gloom that constantly assaults our senses, there is a way for us to ransom our lives and… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self--to the mediating… — William Styron 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
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
“All around were horror, and thick gloom, and a black sweltering desert of ebony.” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I could never be lonely without a husband, but without my trinkets, my golden gods, I could find abysmal gloom. — Lillian Russell Copy Share Image
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The advent of truth, like the dawn of day, agitates the elements, while it disperses the gloom. — Elias Lyman Magoon Copy Share Image
Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom. — Aretaeus of Cappadocia Copy Share Image
