Quotes About Gloom

Mr Deacon used to say nothing spread more ultimate gloom at a party than an exuberant manner which has roused false hopes.

The night was bright with stars, but there was no moon in the heavens, and the gloom of the ivy-coloured church tower was complete. But all the outlines of the place were so well known to him that he could trace them all in the dim light.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

There was, to my mind, something eerie and ghost-like in the endless procession of faces which flitted across these narrow bars of light,—sad faces and glad, haggard and merry. Like all human kind, they flitted from the gloom into the light, and so back into the gloom once more.

Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.

To the depths of terror, too dark to hear, to see.

The seat of desolation, void of light.

Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom,Far from all resort of mirth,Save the cricket on the hearth.

Dark with excessive bright.

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health, as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom, there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

Verity: thirty seconds it lasted, green sunlight breaking the cloud on the horizon. Then the light winked out below the haze again and all three pilots were left blinded in the dull gloom of a showery autumn afternoon.

At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the gloom of death that surrounded the two of us, we were just at the point of approaching and negotiating a gentle curve. If we bypassed it, we would split off into different directions. In that case, we would forever remain just friends.

Flowers and light, hope and excitement all suddenly seemed like things that were very distant from me, and I was trapped inside a deep, putrid, and bloody darkness.

In the black gloom before my eyes (as it always is in cases of bewitchment), I saw a straight road leading from me to him. He seemed to glow with white light. That was the effect he had on me.

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

Self will come to life even in the slaying of self; but there is ever something deeper and stronger than it, which will emerge at last from the unknown abysses of the soul: will it be as a solemn gloom, burning with eyes? or a clear morning after the rain? or a smiling child, that finds itself nowhere, and everywhere?

In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and foreknowledge of pain.

And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. ("The Testimony of the Suns")

But it was only in epic tragedies that gloom was unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy were so intermingled that when one was most wretched ridiculous things happened to make one laugh in spite of oneself

She laughed. 'I hope he will enjoy good sport– though my small experience informs me that catching fish is not necessary for your true angler's enjoyment.' 'Oh, no! But to lose a fish is quite another matter!' 'Certainly! One cannot wonder that it should cast even the most cheerful person into gloom, for it is always such an enormous one that escapes!' 'I begin to think you are yourself an angler, ma'am: you are so exactly right!

hopeless gloom.

Beyond the window, snow fell like frozen drops of poison.