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One is always ready for war." Uthil gently twisted the pommel of his sword so the naked blade flashed in the gloom. "Or never. — Joe Abercrombie

(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time) — Kate Atkinson

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such. — Alain De Botton

Beauty in gloom is still beauty. — Elizabeth Paulson

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom. — Alain De Botton

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment. — Mabel Collins

Nor was Mr. Bumble's gloom the only thing calculated to awaken a pleasing melancholy in the bosom of a spectator. There — Charles Dickens

Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending. — Barbara Holland

But even in gloom, one truth is fundamental, from time immemorial, love springs eternal. — Balaji Sadasivan

I could never be lonely without a husband, but without my trinkets, my golden gods, I could find abysmal gloom. — Lillian Russell

The world is a palace without bedsheets — Suchet Chaturvedi

Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! — Alexander Pope

I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus. — Gerald Durrell

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. — Orson Welles

Deed of darkness is dark gloom. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Many a maiden,
With white feet dancing light as air,
Made happy music through the gloom. — Euripides

He put his fist against his chest. "Burn, Maddygirl," he said. Then he turned and left her in the flickering gloom and thunder. — Laura Kinsale

It's my perspective: gloom and doom. — Harvey Pekar

All my life I have been pursued by the black dogs of unaccountable gloom — Andrew Pyper

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood. — Buffalo Bill

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh. — Shirley Henderson

Through thickest gloom look back, immortal shade,
On that confusion which thy death has made. — Phillis Wheatley

The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room. — Sammy Cahn

The sun sinks to rise again; the day is swallowed up in the gloom of night, to be born out of it, as fresh as if it had never been quenched. — William Peter Blatty

Worry, fear, doom, and gloom are all an absolute waste of energy ' ~ Ramie — Tim Bauerschmidt

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom. — Aretaeus Of Cappadocia

Silence prevailed everywhere, like the gloomy dumbness after the riots in the city. — Girdhar Joshi

Gloom is a grief. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The remainder of the afternoon went by in the gentle gloom that descends when relatives appear ... — Harper Lee

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else. — Arnold Bennett

Waking up breaks my heart.
Getting dressed breaks my arms.
Joining the crowd breaks my legs.
Letting someone in ... does me in. — Casey Renee Kiser

Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay. — Samuel Rogers

For when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

The little street
Into its gloom retires, secluded and shy. — Laurence Binyon

A very correct butler opened the door, with just the right amount of gloom in his bearing. — Agatha Christie

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness. — Maurice Maeterlinck

A joke a day keeps the gloom away! — Cesar Romero

Like rays of glory from heaven, piercing the dusty gloom of the church, making each airborne mote shine like a star. — Julie Berry

And you, are Ruin, the chosen Carnificem, and WOE is what you're all about, it's your purpose. Doom and Gloom. ~Caliber Creed — Lucian Bane

But he also didn't care to hear that doom and gloom message of 'nothing this broken can ever be fixed.' He — Lucian Bane

Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person. — Daryn Kagan

14He brought them out of their gloom and darkness and broke their chains. 15Let them give thanks to the LORD for his love and for the miracles he does — Max Lucado

At some point last year, her gloom met my doom and she thought it was a good match. i'm not so sure, but at least i get coffee out of it. — David Levithan

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular. — Saul Alinsky

The heart that is constantly overflowing with gratitude will be safe from those attacks of resentfulness and gloom that bother so many persons. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I lay so still in the gloom I could hear the house breathe, and the boards of the floors whispered, conniving a way to keep me here forever. — V.C. Andrews

Long have I dwelt forgotten here
In pining woe and dull despair;
This place of solitude and gloom
Must be my dungeon and my tomb. — Anne Bronte

London sank into February gloom and rain spattered the dirty pavements as Daisy Dunbar, fourteen years old, skinny and cold, struggled to get home. — Bex Archer

I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope. — Philippe Cousteau Jr.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment. — Joseph Addison

For my sustenance at night,
the whole that my hands can glean
from the gloom of the oak-gloomed oaks
the herbs and the plenteous fruits ... — Flann O'Brien

Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me. — Suzanne Collins

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate. — Joanna Baillie

You want me to be all doom and gloom, or just shut up? — Stephenie Meyer

The deserts of Arabia are innocent of our civilised desolation-the ruins of Palestine are incapable of our modern gloom! — Wilkie Collins

The advent of truth, like the dawn of day, agitates the elements, while it disperses the gloom. — Elias Lyman Magoon

Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance. — John Hall Wheelock

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show. — Matthew Arnold

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom. — Robert Burns

Gloom and darkness are temporary. Joy comes in the morning. — Sunday Adelaja

It was raining heavily outside my window, April showers, keeping the current Michigan spring gloom at bay. — Justin Bog

Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel. — J.I. Packer

It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow. — Aimee Mann

black gloom settled over the Palace Flophouse. — John Steinbeck

And from the midst of cheerless gloom
I passed to bright unclouded day. — Emily Bronte

I have left my book,
I have left my room,
For I heard you singing
Through the gloom. — James Joyce

An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard. — Savielly Tartakower

Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic. — Nick Hornby

In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom. — Samuel Johnson

The gospel of Jesus Christ is not a religion of mourning and gloom. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind. — Leigh Hunt

The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard — Aron Nimzowitsch

People think I'm all gloom and doom all the time. I'm not. I also have bad days where I'm pessimistic. — Jarod Kintz

Gloom and anguish is the description of the lives of those who live in darkness — Sunday Adelaja

Every day that you harp on this gloom and doom is another day you miss the blessed life you have here, right now, this instant." "Sandy, — Jamie Kornegay

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on. — John Henry Newman

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go. — Criss Jami

All around were horror, and thick gloom, and a black sweltering desert of ebony. — Edgar Allan Poe

Being an environmentalist isn't all about doom and gloom. — David Suzuki

... gloom never forsakes the English... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And through the gloom I saw that mortal boy watching me, and I smelled the hot aroma of his flesh. — Anne Rice

His gloom seeped through the house, oozing under doorways like some noxious gas, so that all of them became infected by it. — J.K. Rowling

What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness? — Frances Wright

Where others saw gloom, I saw light or lit a candle. — G.R. Gopinath

When thunderstorms roll in, you make a choice to either succumb with tears to the gloomy downpour, or smile and look for rainbows. — Richelle E. Goodrich

My only doubt was as to whether any dream could be more terrible than the unnatural, horrible net of gloom and mystery which seemed closing around me. — Bram Stoker

She was so clever, Dennis thought, and so kind, and he found the familiar gloom descend upon him. — Nick Hornby

Soon the evening gloom would materialize, infect the fibre-filled air, drape itself over her bed, depress her from now till morning. — Rohinton Mistry

It was a little light, but she aimed it directly at the gloom of ignorance. — Maya Angelou

I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.' — Mahatma Gandhi

This bird looks at me with obsidian eyes. They glimmer, small black lights in the gloom. I do not blink. — Ned Hayes

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom. — Yukio Mishima

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom. — Fareed Zakaria

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom — Kahlil Gibran

The former time is the time of gloom and darkness, but the later time is a time of the redemption and the mercy of God — Sunday Adelaja

Alice was standing in the gloom, with just the toes of her pointy shoes poking out into the sunlight. — Joseph Delaney