“I think that the habit of gloomy poetry is very funny. It’s like a special competition in losing.” — Miroslav Holub 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
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
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
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
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
“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
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long… — Nikolai Gogol 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
“By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis, Dark behind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as… — Annie Besant 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
“Old Time heaved a moldy sigh from tomb and arch and vault; and gloomy shadows began to deepen in corners; and damps… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
“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
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 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 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
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
It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle? — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
The rain reminds me of you, how cold you are, how gloomy you make me feel, how many tears I've shed because… — Cyhen Copy Share Image
Mirrors have come to mean much more than the original 'looking glass.' They are now a part of the decorative scheme of… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is writing a different theme, which is it's midnight in America and that things are bad, and they're bleak, and… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Religion in its true sense is the most joyous thing the human soul can know, and when the real religion is realized,… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
The most gloomy prognosis about Jewish life is that it will disappear between the two extremes of ultra-Orthodoxy on the one hand… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I remember in 2007, 2008, when we had the recession, there were all of these very gloomy emails sent from a lot… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
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