Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
There is that interesting thing that Haughton Forrest was imagining the landscapes. They are so dramatic. They are dark, big, gloomy paintings… — Ben Quilty Copy Share Image
He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The path to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on your path, so… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon, there lived a King who was very Gloomy on Tuesday… — Walt Kelly Copy Share Image
Chicago always hit me as such a gloomy place - I just remember all the snow getting dirty as soon as it… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus… — Robert Greene 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
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
There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year… — John Brunner 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
Some commentators have drawn such a stark and gloomy picture of the Weimar Republic's early difficulties that the Republic seems foredoomed to… — Mary Fulbrook Copy Share Image
She was coming. I watched the slight figure grow out of the dusk between the trees, and the darkness in which I… — Mary Johnston Copy Share Image
The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness;… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
Rebellion against God results in being cast out of his service. God doesn't run the affairs of the spiritual world or our… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I now have had my foggy crystal ball for quite a long time. Its predictions are invariably gloomy and usually correct, but… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have… — Douglas Fairbanks Copy Share Image
“The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a particularly sinister effect, and the hill, whose contour was poor… — 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 endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best -… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
There is the moon and the sky, and also the gloomy clouds, I wish the moon doesn't hide itself. This loneliness is… — SK Copy Share Image
A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I interned for the Knicks for one year doing community relations, but I absolutely hated it. It was a desk job, and… — Ramon Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
It crosses my mind that our generation may leave problems that are simply too hard for human society in the generations that… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
It will be my birthday on Tuesday. Last year, I reached the painful conclusion that there wasn't enough time left to read… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
For men know not what the nature of the soul is; whether it is engendered with us, or whether, on the contrary,… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Night doesn't fall in Rome; it rises from the city's heart, from the gloomy little alleys and courtyards where the sun never… — Caroline Llewellyn Copy Share Image
What the Londoner sees in his mind’s eye is that cluster of towers and pinnacles seen from Pentonville Hill and outlined against… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and… — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
