Gloom Quotes

196 quotes by 170 authors

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a… — Matthew Arnold
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of… — Joseph Addison
We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the gloom oEurope until… — Winston Churchill
The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room. — Sammy Cahn
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 the… — Ellen Glasgow
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their… — Maurice Maeterlinck
Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind. — Leigh Hunt
I salute you! There is nothing I can give you which you have not; but there is much, that, while I cannot give you, you… — Giovanni Giocondo
The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from… — Robert Fulton
The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard — Aron Nimzowitsch
Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world… — Henri Frederic Amiel
When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not… — Seneca the Younger
Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me. — Suzanne Collins
It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow. — Aimee Mann
A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a… — Walter de La Mare
An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard. — Savielly Tartakower
We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. The days are always dark enough. There is no need for… — George Madison Adams
Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there… — John Ruskin
The "Kumulipo" is an old Hawaiian prayer chant that poetically describes the creation of the world. The word literally means "beginning-in-deep-darkness." Here darkness doesn't connote… — Rob Brezsny

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