The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich 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
“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
Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and… — Ian Holm Copy Share Image
As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the… — Rabindranath Tagore 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
“I ask, ‘Is the cup half-empty or half-full?’ And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Her house looked cold from the foggy lea, And the square of each window a dull black blur Where showed no stir:… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“He went into the kitchen. It was eight in the evening. He tried to shut the bright spring evening out with the… — Arnaldur Indridason Copy Share Image
“...he seems to be on the brink of one of his bad spells again, one of the fits of lugubrious self-pity that… — J.M. Coetzee 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
At times I feel it almost impossible not to despond entirely of there ever being a better, brighter day for us. None… — Charlotte Forten Grimke Copy Share Image
I salute you! There is nothing I can give you which you have not; but there is much, that, while I cannot… — Giovanni Giocondo Copy Share Image
For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If Under fell, if Over leaped, If death was life and Death life reaped, Something rises from the gloom, To make the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“This sadness lies at the heart of every merely positivistic, agnostic, or naturalistic scheme of philosophy. Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best… — William James Copy Share Image
An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely… — James Keller Copy Share Image
You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“My name,' said the mattress, 'is Zem. We could discuss the weather a little.' Marvin paused again in his weary circular pplod.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“It was there, in the parlors of the funeral home---my daily stations with the local lately dead---that the darkness would often give… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Even after the ringing stopped, the sound of the bell lingered through the evening gloom like the dust floating in the air.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People do support themselves as artists and writers, so there's no need to be all doom and gloom about it. You just… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, a shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from the hushed and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs,… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The heart is delighted by the first, The other makes the mind go numb; Happiness and gloom like twins, Holding the hands… — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
“...literature must always be about gloom of one sort or another, on the principal that there is nothing interesting to be said… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory… — Anonymous 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
But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. The days are always dark enough. There is… — George Madison Adams Copy Share Image
Sombre and rich, the skies; Great glooms, and starry plains. Gently the night wind sighs; Else a vast silence reigns. — Lionel Johnson Copy Share Image
“... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Rainy, gloomy, drab, sunless day. There are times when hope seems entirely clouded over, when looking for the blessings in your circumstances… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
