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Quotes About Gloom

His countenance instantly assumed an aspect of the deepest gloom, and he replied, To seek one who fled from me.
~ Mary Shelley
The generation that has experienced more peace, freedom, leisure time, education, medicine, travel, movies, mobile phones and massages than any generation in history is lapping up gloom at every opportunity.
~ Matt Ridley
It was feeling just beyond fear and somewhere to the left of sadness. Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes. It was dark and gloomy, and yet, it didn't seem that things would get any better if the lights were turned up.
~ Maureen Johnson
It was a small, dim room and the air in it seemed heavy, as if it had not been disturbed for years.
~ Ayn Rand
Poor Dan is in a droop.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
All these brilliant colors in this hopeless place, it kills you.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Um dia sem sol é como, você sabe, noite.
~ Steve Martin
The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
~ Dario Argento
Era sempre crepúsculo na enfermaria. Era como uma antessala do túmulo, com as pesadas cortinas que impediam a luz de entrar.
~ Jorge Amado
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
~ Joseph Addison
Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment.
~ Joseph Addison
Alice was standing in the gloom, with just the toes of her pointy shoes poking out into the sunlight.
~ Joseph Delaney
hung over her like a heavy black cloud that would soon unleash a storm.
~ Erin Hunter
she admired the lofty set of his black-robed figure, the majestic shoulders, the great impatient hands, and his gloomy black eyes.
~ Bernard Evslin
And then depression set in....
~ Bill Murray
With all those stars in the sky, why isn't there enough light for us to see by? We stumble like blinded sheep." "As you can see, it is clouding over. The stars can't pierce that gloom; they just wait it out. That isn't the stars' fault. It is their custom to stay heavenly." "They should come down closer to the earth." "Well, ask them politely.
~ Gregory Maguire
for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart.
~ Gustave Flaubert
But her own life was as cold as an attic with a north-facing window, and boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of
~ Gustave Flaubert
C'était un de ces jours froids et tristes où les cÅ"urs se serrent, où les esprits s'irritent, où l'âme est sombre, où la main ne s'ouvre ni pour donner ni pour secourir.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Spurred on by a voice which must have come from the hideous soul of the forest, I resolved to enter the beckoning gloom in spite of the ponderous chains which barred my passage.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
I stayed locked inside a windowless environment, sickened by the lack of sunshine like some dour owl.
~ Harlan Coben
In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
~ John Burroughs
Rain came down in sheets. It had been a miserable spring. Already he despaired of ever again walking under an unclouded sky.
~ Sherry Thomas
Happy, you really are a first-class gloomy bugger," JC said affectionately. "You could gloom for the Olympics, and still take a Bronze in existential paranoia." Everyone has to be good at something," said Happy smiling in spite of himself.
~ Simon R. Green