Brain Quote by Kate Atkinson

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

— Margaret Drabble

“What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capacity to register?”

— Darin Strauss

If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.

— Astrid Lindgren

Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with…

— Lydia Sigourney

I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a…

— Amanda Burton

I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to…

— John Updike

Everything but happiness is neurosis.

— Anais Nin

“I was a happy melancholy, though — a contradiction in terms, to be sure, but every human understands this paradox, because they have all…

— Jamie S. Rich

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

— Ambrose Bierce

The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have been a…

— Douglas Fairbanks

The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.

— Hannah Kent

Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.

— Lisa Kleypas