It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To man, that was in th' evening made, Stars gave the first delight; Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing. — Samuel Johnson 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
[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
If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have… — Ned Beauman 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
“When thunderstorms roll in, you make a choice to either succumb with tears to the gloomy downpour, or smile and look for… — Richelle E. Goodrich 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
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
Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
At last, the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phoebus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate, Came… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
When winter stern, his gloomy front uprears, A sable void the barren earth appears; The meads no more their former verdure boast,… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Many of us were a little to early to assume that the most logical uses of the internet in authoritarian states would… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant,… — Klas Pontus Arnoldson Copy Share Image
Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I'm often quite gloomy about the prospects for the human future. But, although I have no competence to intervene directly in a… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey. — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
Writer is a miner; he works in the gloomy places like a miner to get the precious material. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Not all was well, even in the hell, some faces were gloomy, some souls so sad. *senora* — Adgjm/ptw Copy Share Image
When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and… — Michel de Montaigne 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
It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot… — John Howard Copy Share Image
It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle? — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
“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 no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Well, they're just fine. You know, a little dark, a little gloomy. And, as always, hey, full of dead people. What are… — Hades Copy Share Image
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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