Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure. — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good. — C. S. Lewis 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
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
Don't be gloomy. Even if you are not happy, put a smile on your face. [Life is about] joy,... something to be… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
[I]n the gloomy month of February… The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise;… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Mountains are nature's testimonials of anguish. They are the sharp cry of a groaning and travailing creation. Nature's stern agony writes itself… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Caine met Diana's disbelieving gaze and laughed aloud. "Why so gloomy? Doesn't every little girl want to grow up to be a… — Michael Grant 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
“There is some wisdom in taking a gloomy view, in looking upon the world as a kind of Hell, and in confining… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Being gloomy is easier than being cheerful. Anybody can say ‘I’ve got cancer’ and get a rise out of a crowd. But… — Pam Grout Copy Share Image
Don’t be gloomy. Do not dwell on unkind things. Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight. Even if… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In February, the overcast sky isn’t gloomy so much as neutral and vague. It’s a significant factor in the common experience of… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“It was a dark afternoon, threatening rain and the end of the world, and done in that particularly gloomy gray in which… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end-… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The day arrived,when myriad teary rivers flow and the muted wind faintly died in his tears—an altar for the beloved one's departure,for… — Nithin Purple Copy Share Image
But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. — Stephen Rea Copy Share Image
If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied. — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image