Quotes About Gloom

a wind howling began, which seemed to form all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.

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.

The walls were hung with a series of gigantic paintings in gilded frames of great complexity, all depicting the city of Venice, but the day was overcast, a cold stormy rain had set in, and Venice – that city built of equal parts of sunlit marble and sunlit sea – was drowned in a London gloom.

a cold, miserable little hamlet on the eastern coast of America called Piper's Grave.

This mizzle fits me like a sad jacket.

We had family dinner back in Brooklyn, up in our apartment.  Just eggs and gloom.

It's just ordinary hopelessness.

Sólo alcanzaba a advertir la casa triste, que Rema estaba como cansada, que apenas llovía y las cosas tenían, sin embargo, algo de húmedo y abandonado

Estaba lugubre como cuando la sombra de Helene viene a habitarlo. A deshabitarlo

First one and then another and then more and more, their frozen figures resolving out of the gloom. Most were seated around a series of tall tables, their postures grimly comical, as if they'd been overcome in the midst of some desperate, private act.

The fish in the water is racked by thirst: I hear about it and burst out laughing. What you are looking for is right at home and yet you roam from forest to forest, full of gloom . . .

A clear-eyed view of the hell I had landed in certainly would have thrown me deeper into despair. There is nothing like thought to deepen one's gloom.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.

Once the fervor has passed, weakness and infidelity appear. We discover our inability to add even a single inch to our spiritual stature. There begins a long winter of discontent that eventually flowers into gloom, pessimism, and a subtle despair—subtle because it goes unrecognized, unnoticed, and therefore unchallenged. It takes the form of boredom, drudgery.

He fairly glittered in the gloom.

Her laugh produced in him a momentary gloom.

Such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb.

He is one of those who bring their own dark clouds wherever they go. He keeps them on a string. They are always there, even on the brightest of days. It takes only a chance remark and he tugs their strings, drags them down, and blots out the sun.

Tem alguma coisa naquele vento e no nevoeiro. É algo que parece ter o jeito, o som, o gosto e o cheiro da morte.

Bir ÅŸeyden eminim. GüneÅŸ bugünkü turunu atarken bundan daha mutsuz bir evin üzerine doÄŸmayacak.

No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

There's no a lot of laughs in an underworld. This one used to be called Limbo, ya ken, 'cause the door was verra low.

The three thieves looked around. As their eyes grew accustomed to the gloom, they received a general impression of armourality, with strong overtones of helmetness.