Gloom Quote by Barbara Holland Download Open image “Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.” — Barbara Holland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gloom Joy Sad Sturdy Weed
The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. Take joy. — Girolamo Savonarola Copy Share Image
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington 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 replete with… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms. — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Joys come from simple and natural things; mist over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water. Even rain and wind… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
We're a shifty, sliding population. ... What we refer to as 'home' may be a place we haven't seen in years; a place where… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost contemptible, and… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning, unified a… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and presidents. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
The thing to remember is that children are temporary. As soon as they develop a sense of humor and get to be good company,… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I was getting sick and tired of being lectured by dear friends with their little bottles of water and their regular visits to the… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren't cursed with meddling, bullying natures,… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain.… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
“Don’t you dare try to out-gloom me. I’m the only one here entitled to indulge in deep dark existential brooding.” — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
When there's doom and gloom, don't forget there's darkness before dawn. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
“Ye men of gloom and austerity, who paint the face of Infinite Benevolence with an eternal frown; read in the Everlasting Book, wide open… — Doma Publishing House Copy Share Image
The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their… — Charles Tennyson Turner Copy Share Image
It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
