Best Gloomy Sayings
181 Gloomy quotes by 155 unique authors
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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
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
— Karl Philipp Moritz
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Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.
— Daniel Harvey Hill
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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
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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
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The gloomy shade of death.
— William Shakespeare
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When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.
— Swami Vivekananda
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.
— Stephen Rea
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The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.
— Joseph Addison
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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