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The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.
— Samuel Johnson
As an actor I've played a lot of gloomy, romantic leads and even though I might not want to recognize it, I actually really have a sense of humor.
— Louis Garrel
It was always gloomy in Mal's room, just as it was always gray and overcast on the island.
— Melissa De La Cruz
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
— Samuel Johnson
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
— Thomas Jefferson
There's so much light in Broughty Ferry. I think the humour in Glasgow is darker, because it's much more gloomy, there's a perpetual misery there.
— Brian Cox
Writer is a miner; he works in the gloomy places like a miner to get the precious material.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
How Gloomy it is, to pause, to cease and to rust unburn, to get used and be indistinct. Like to live is to breathe.
— Abhijit Tripathi
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
— Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends.
— Richard K. Morgan
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
— Yann Martel
You are always foreboding gloomy things!" said the others. "Anything from floods to poisoned fish. Think of something cheerful!
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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 not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.
— Max Lerner
I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s.
— Peter O'Toole
The gloomy shade of death.
— William Shakespeare
A single wire hanger on a nail by itself
Isn't bad though a stack of them on a floor
Is too gloomy for words. — Dara Weir
Isn't bad though a stack of them on a floor
Is too gloomy for words. — Dara Weir
With more insight into the English character, I poured out a stiff whisky and soda and placed it in front of the gloomy inspector.
— Agatha Christie
Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life.
— Luciano Pavarotti
The iron bolt ... mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.
— Charles Spurgeon
And wisdom is a butterfly
And not a gloomy bird of prey ... — William Butler Yeats
And not a gloomy bird of prey ... — William Butler Yeats
I know now, like drumbeats. Portentous, and a little sinister, like tympani strikes at the start of a gloomy symphony. Shostakovich, maybe.
— Lee Child
Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
While we're talking about my dreams, about how I'm gloomy and combative, and about displacing those feelings onto my pillow instead of my loved ones.
— Elizabeth Mckenzie
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
— Friedrich Schiller
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, she should see something else.
— Jane Austen
With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!
— Bayard Taylor
Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.
— Fanny Fern
I was born with gloomy nature. I do not think I have ever known what it is to be cheerful and at ease.
— Yukio Mishima
It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?
— Julian Fellowes
The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.
— Joseph Addison
You must rise above
The gloomy clouds
Covering the mountaintop
Otherwise, how will you
Ever see the brightness? — Ryokan Taigu
The gloomy clouds
Covering the mountaintop
Otherwise, how will you
Ever see the brightness? — Ryokan Taigu
God save us from gloomy saints!
— Teresa Of Avila
window of the train and gazed at the gloomy blackness of the Finite Forest, wondering if their lives would ever get any
— Lemony Snicket
I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.
— Kenneth Branagh
Like melancholic face of 'Radha' due to the absence of 'Krishna', that evening was gloomy.
— Mangalesh Joshi
Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.
— Charles Phillips
In narrow and gloomy streets, keep your spirit high!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
True determination is betting on your solemn decision regardless of the gloomy realities surrounding the thing you resolved to pursue.
— Assegid Habtewold
Let us see rather that like Janus - or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death - religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy ...
— Arthur Schopenhauer
In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow.
— Francis Parkman
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
— Saint Teresa Of Avila
Those who cannot illuminate even a gloomy street often talk about illuminating the world!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.
— Swami Vivekananda
The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.
— Winston Churchill
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 my life.
— John Updike
What a day. It's 53 and gloomy - like President Obama.
— David Letterman
Watching the destruction of our planet makes me feel a gloomy as a penguin in a pigpen.
— D.J. Milne
Sometimes a gloomy street is all a sad person needs! A magical relief may arise from the meeting of the two sad things!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring ...
— Andre Gide
Never yield to gloomy anticipation. Place your hope and confidence in God. He has no record of failure
— Lettie Cowman
[I]n the gloomy month of February ... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time ...
— Washington Irving
In the midway of this our mortal life,
I found me in a gloomy wood, astray,
Gone from the path direct. — Dante Alighieri
I found me in a gloomy wood, astray,
Gone from the path direct. — Dante Alighieri
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
-No, this is no begining.
-Then an end?
-End is a gloomy word. — Robert Frost
-Then an end?
-End is a gloomy word. — Robert Frost
It's a gloomy thing, however, to talk about one's own past, with the day breaking.
— Charles Dickens
At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.
— Mason Cooley
Many a month of gloomy unconsciousness rolled over me, without date or notice. One thousand waves may welter over a sunk wreck, and be felt as one.
— Charles Robert Maturin
That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.
— John Dryden
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 as if he stifled grief.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow ...
— Jean Ingelow
The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have a complete set of Schopenhauer at home.
— Ned Beauman
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 about.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
I think that the habit of gloomy poetry is very funny. It's like a special competition in losing.
— Miroslav Holub
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
— Berthold Auerbach
No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you'll release the weight of those burdens, you will see the sun break forth.
— Joel Osteen
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
— Francis Of Assisi
One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.
— Aldous Huxley
Shine like the sun in a gloomy sky.
— Debasish Mridha
I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement.
— Thomas Jefferson
Life's a gloomy puddle, until you start jumping in it.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
This is both a gloomy and a hopeful book.
— Jane Jacobs
It was odd to see her stepping out of that gloomy place, like a pearl coming out of an oyster.
— Sarah Waters
I've been in a lot of castles, and they are pretty damp, cold and gloomy. However, I love Windsor Castle in England.
— Tracie Peterson
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
— Michel De Montaigne
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
When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see. — Charles Caleb Colton
The end came as dusk fell on a gloomy winter day of cold rain.
— Soheir Khashoggi