Gloomy Quotes

Gloomy Quote of the day

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.

One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.

When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

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.

I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy predictions.

With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!

Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life.

When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

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 together and banging away.

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.

I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the unknown and the unknowable to poison all their joy in life.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

Well it's a gloomy, rainy old day to be here in London, but it could be worse; I could be in Saudi Arabia where men are men, and women are cattle.

In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.

You must rise above The gloomy clouds Covering the mountaintop Otherwise, how will you Ever see the brightness?

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

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

Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And shed their substance on the floating air.

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

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.

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.

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 unavailing sorrows and regrets.

Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.

To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However, at this particular moment I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.

On staring out at a gloomy day: First you must realize that it is the day that is gloomy, not you. If you want to be gloomy, too, that's all right, but it's not mandatory.

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.

Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies, And views of gaiety and gladness rise.

Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!

The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it. That's when I first started thinking about the typical view of reality.

We fear not the truth, even if it be gloomy, but its counterfeit.

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

Never yield to gloomy anticipation. Place your hope and confidence in God. He has no record of failure