“We can affect people around us so much with our moods. A depressed person can make a room gloomy and a sweet… — Polly Horvath Copy Share Image
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow. — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but… — Giovanni Boccaccio Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one.… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As an actor I've played a lot of gloomy, romantic leads and even though I might not want to recognize it, I… — Louis Garrel Copy Share Image
“But then an old man was discovered impaled in a ditch, and once again his world had started crumbling away beneath his… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Well it's a gloomy, rainy old day to be here in London, but it could be worse; I could be in Saudi… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor,… — Horace Copy Share Image
I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old. — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to… — Zora Neale Hurston 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… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
