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People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and… — Billy Corgan
I dont want to sound gloomy, but, at some point of your lives, every one of you will notice that you have in your life… — Christopher Lee
No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you will think it… — Robert E. Lee
Never yield to gloomy anticipation. Place your hope and confidence in God. He has no record of failure — Lettie Cowman
No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you'll release the weight of those burdens, you will see the… — Joel Osteen
It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy day; but the… — John Owen
(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it, ... That's when I first started thinking about the typical… — Thomas Cahill
The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
In crime the egoist has hitherto asserted himself and mocked at the sacred; the break with the sacred, or rather of the sacred, may become… — Max Stirner
Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far from home - when your… — Richard Ford
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good. — C.S. Lewis
To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on,… — Thomas Carlyle
In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility… — Hector Berlioz
Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker … [I]t does seem, dear, that this gloomy kind of… — Shirley Jackson
Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't… — Nick Hornby
Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied… — John Ruskin
I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from… — Gavin Rossdale
But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows down, too weary… — Eric G. Wilson
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old. — Berthold Auerbach
If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have a complete set… — Ned Beauman
The Bible is the light of my understanding, the joy of my heart, the fullness of my hope, the clarified of my affections, the mirror… — William Jones
The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more… — William Barclay
I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk know this and… — Alasdair Gray
The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a feeling and a… — William Wordsworth

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