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Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle… — William Wordsworth
Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see. — Charles Caleb Colton
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking… — Benjamin Disraeli
People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think… — Michael Haneke
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. — Thomas Jefferson
Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so… — Jon Meacham
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. — Grace Paley
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. — Jean Paul
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes. — Jean Racine
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast. — Friedrich Schiller
I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy. — Catherine Zeta-Jones
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. — Simone Weil
My suffering left me sad and gloomy. — Yann Martel
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience… — Carrie P Snow
And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its… — Jack Kerouac
How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to… — Jonathan Franzen
We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is… — Milan Kundera
What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He… — Jean Cocteau
No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk. — Terry Pratchett
I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time... — Ernest Hemingway
In February, the overcast sky isn’t gloomy so much as neutral and vague. It’s a significant factor in the common experience of depression among the… — Charles Baxter
When you find yourselves a little gloomy, look around you and find somebody that is in a worse plight than yourself; go to him and… — Lorenzo Snow
Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her… — Thomas Hardy
It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many… — Charles Dickens
It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away,… — Jane Austen

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