Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
There is that interesting thing that Haughton Forrest was imagining the landscapes. They are so dramatic. They are dark, big, gloomy paintings… — Ben Quilty Copy Share Image
(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it, ... That's when I first started thinking… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
And if joy were not on the earth, There were an end of change and birth, And Earth and Heaven and Hell… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I hope the doctrine that Christians ought to be gloomy will soon be driven out of the universe. There are no people… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Sometimes a game comes at just the right moment in your life. 'Flower' is beautiful, serene, and a bit of sunshine in… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit,… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
Christ's boundless grace confronts our deep necessities. Christ's promised presence confronts our sad and gloomy loneliness. Jesus thus filled with grace so… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you've learned to… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
After World War II there were many Jews who remained in refugee camps...President Harry F. Truman called for the Harrison Commission to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The gloomy theology of the orthodox--the Calvinists--I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions--nay, most of the notions--which orthodox people… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Night doesn't fall in Rome; it rises from the city's heart, from the gloomy little alleys and courtyards where the sun never… — Caroline Llewellyn Copy Share Image
What the Londoner sees in his mind’s eye is that cluster of towers and pinnacles seen from Pentonville Hill and outlined against… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and… — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
For men know not what the nature of the soul is; whether it is engendered with us, or whether, on the contrary,… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
When you find yourselves a little gloomy, look around you and find somebody that is in a worse plight than yourself; go… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
It was her brother,' said Mr. Thornton to himself. 'I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is comfort-a relief-to… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness;… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
Rebellion against God results in being cast out of his service. God doesn't run the affairs of the spiritual world or our… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
She was coming. I watched the slight figure grow out of the dusk between the trees, and the darkness in which I… — Mary Johnston Copy Share Image
Some commentators have drawn such a stark and gloomy picture of the Weimar Republic's early difficulties that the Republic seems foredoomed to… — Mary Fulbrook Copy Share Image
If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We can sometimes find a person again, but we cannot abolish time. And so on until the unforeseen day, gloomy as a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In crime the egoist has hitherto asserted himself and mocked at the sacred; the break with the sacred, or rather of the… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I was modest--they accused me of being crafty: I became secretive. I felt deeply good and evil--nobody caressed me, everybody offended me:… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
