Gloom Quotes

196 Gloom quotes by 168 unique authors

Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,--… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the gloom of death… — Banana Yoshimoto
Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned… — Steve Martin
Stop being so...optimistic, its getting on my nerves." "No problem. Do you want me to be all gloom and doom or just shut up?" "Just… — Stephenie Meyer
Who are you, Master?' he asked. 'Eh, what?' said Tom sitting up, and his eyes glinting in the gloom. 'Don't you know my name yet?… — J.R.R. Tolkien
(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time) — Kate Atkinson
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 secret… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false… — Dante Alighieri
And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day. — Emily Bronte
You want me to be all doom and gloom, or just shut up? — Stephenie Meyer
Now, Watson,” said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building… — Charles Dickens
I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show… — Jacqueline Wilson
The trees bathed their great heads in the waves of the morning, while their roots were planted deep in gloom; save where on the borders… — George MacDonald
There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent,… — Og Mandino
This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus. — Gerald Durrell
Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom. — Alain de Botton
Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by — Yann Martel
We’re vampires,” he said. “Not fairies.” “Sometimes I’m not so sure about that. You see that study your king hangs out in?” “He’s nearly blind.”… — J R Ward
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting… — Zig Ziglar
I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster." End of discussion.The Titan hefted his spear and they continued marching into… — Rick Riordan
Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door;… — David McCord

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