Gloom Quotes

196 Gloom quotes by 168 unique authors

Though Jack Nubbins was extremely talented, Quenten Cassidy had viewed the Specter; when he reached down through the familiar layers of gloom and fatigue he… — John L. Parker Jr.
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain. Again,… — Jean-Georges Noverre
An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the… — James Keller
From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul… — Frederick Douglass
A joke a day keeps the gloom away! — Cesar Romero
Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will;… — Robert Green Ingersoll
There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be… — Marie Osmond
Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument of joy, of… — Emma Goldman
Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of… — Thabo Mbeki
And although I see few results, future missionaries will see conversions following every sermon. May they not forget the pioneers who worked in the thick… — David Livingstone
Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom. — Wilfred Owen
They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that… — Jack Kerouac
But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most… — Georgette Heyer
Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment. — Mabel Collins
"And now you have joy?" "I do indeed." "And how did you get it?" "I chose it, admitted it into my life, then I celebrated… — Calvin Miller
It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends… — James Keller
Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending. — Barbara Holland
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of… — Malcolm De Chazal
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves… — Samuel Johnson
O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea… — Robert Browning
Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily. Live enthusiastically, knowing that God does not dwell in gloom and melancholy, but in… — Ezra Taft Benson
Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! — Alexander Pope
Blessed are the happiness makers. Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer. — Henry Ward Beecher
As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was… — Bram Stoker

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