Gloomy Quotes

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

— Friedrich Schiller

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.

— Samuel Johnson

The gloomy shade of death.

— William Shakespeare

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

— Yann Martel

“Any girl with a grin never looks grim.”

— Amit Kalantri

I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“God save us from gloomy saints!”

— St. Theresa of Avila

“A gloomy face drives friends away”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

— Anonymous

London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

— Bayard Taylor

People think we're always dark and gloomy, and we're not.

— Matt Skiba

“Victory after all, I suppose!…Well, it seems a very gloomy business.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Life's a gloomy puddle, until you start jumping in it.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.

— Aldous Huxley

Life is not like Gloomy Sunday, with a second ending when the people are disturbed.

— Emilie Autumn

The rainy season in Vermont is not long, but it definitely gets gloomy.

— Grace Potter

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

— Joseph Addison

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time...

— Ernest Hemingway

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

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what…

— Benjamin Disraeli

No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

— Terry Pratchett

I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation…

— Richard K. Morgan

“Go your ways! and let the people and peoples go theirs!- gloomy ways, verily, on which not a single hope glints any…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life,…

— Jonathan Franzen

It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and…

— Sydney, Lady Morgan

And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was…

— Jack Kerouac

At last, the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phoebus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate, Came…

— Edmund Spenser

Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than…

— Edward Young

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've…

— Jarvis Cocker

Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the…

— Desiderius Erasmus

On staring out at a gloomy day: First you must realize that it is the day that is gloomy, not you. If…

— Nora Gallagher

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

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look…

— Charles Dickens

On the way I stood a moment looking out across the marshes with tall cattails, a patch of water, more marsh, then…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries,…

— William Wordsworth

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

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

Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it…

— Charles Dickens

I think that we're at an alarming moment in American political development and maybe in world political development, because the United States…

— Frances Fox Piven

I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of…

— Thomas Jefferson