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181 Gloomy quotes by 155 unique authors

Mirrors have come to mean much more than the original 'looking glass.' They are now a part of the decorative scheme of a modern home.… — Dorothy Draper
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey. — Karl Philipp Moritz
Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him. — Daniel Harvey Hill
If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths… — Anthony Burgess
Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the Lord. Be positive. — Gordon B. Hinckley
The gloomy shade of death. — William Shakespeare
When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing. — Swami Vivekananda
Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be… — Klas Pontus Arnoldson
Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent… — Lydia Sigourney
Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the… — Jules Michelet
What the Londoner sees in his mind’s eye is that cluster of towers and pinnacles seen from Pentonville Hill and outlined against a foggy sunset,… — John Betjeman
The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise. — Henry Ward Beecher
It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia,… — Zeena Schreck
People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. — Stephen Rea
The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves. — Joseph Addison
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity,… — Samuel Johnson
He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts… — Ivan Turgenev
She was coming. I watched the slight figure grow out of the dusk between the trees, and the darkness in which I had walked of… — Mary Johnston
Don't be gloomy. Even if you are not happy, put a smile on your face. [Life is about] joy,... something to be happy and excited… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes… — Giovanni Boccaccio
The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be dyspepsia, but it… — Swami Vivekananda
Christ's boundless grace confronts our deep necessities. Christ's promised presence confronts our sad and gloomy loneliness. Jesus thus filled with grace so overflowing, with love… — Octavius Winslow
I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and inclined… — Thomas Jefferson
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting… — Robert Wyatt

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