Gloom Quotes

196 Gloom quotes by 168 unique authors

To ward off alienation and gloom, it is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past, and to look around us for the… — Howard Zinn
Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair. — Ian Holm
The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness… — Giovanni Giocondo
Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place… — Joseph Conrad
The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the… — Ella Leya
Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom. — Aretaeus of Cappadocia
A thunder-storm!—the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud is from its slumber riven, Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan, And felt Omnipotence around… — Robert Montgomery
In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in. — Jeff Cooper
God has so ordered, that in pressing on in duty we shall find the truest, richest comfort for ourselves. Sitting down to brood over our… — Lettie Cowman
Not only do we cheat ourselves and those around us if we are only glum or always wary when it comes time to respond to… — Martin E. Marty
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on. — John Henry Newman
In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. — Malcolm Muggeridge
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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 the… — Martin Amis
Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom. — Robert Plant
For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom. — Yukio Mishima
I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot… — Amanda Burton
I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh. — Shirley Henderson
Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person. — Daryn Kagan
In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom. — Samuel Johnson
The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom. — Garrison Keillor
Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. — John Milton
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes… — Blaise Pascal
O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk. — James Whitcomb Riley
Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing; Out of the fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to the room, "Why… — William Dean Howells

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