Quotes About Gloom

The shocked gloomy aftermath of death pressed a heavy hand upon the house.

At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. And now and then it blazes forth in veiled but hot anger.

Dark is dark in the darkness.

Pryce's chicken is an unhealthy-looking grey, the way my sister looked when she had glandular fever. He examines it gloomily. 'We'll get

It's my perspective: gloom and doom.

The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.

She felt depressed beyond anything she had ever known before.

This is both a gloomy and a hopeful book.

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.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

War is not heroic. War is not exhilarating. War is full of despair. It is dark. It is dreadful. It is a thing of sorrow and gloom. That is why people fear war. That is why people choose to avoid it. ~Izuru Kira

Had anyone thought to lay in a few candles here? she wondered, gingerly making her way through the gloom to the small kitchen, barking her shin on the marble coffee table in the process.

When he reached the last hole he saw, far to the west, a series of rockets bloom in the sky. He watched their green and yellow and red petals arch across the horizon, and fade into the gloom of the earth. It was very beautiful, but he recognized them for Chinese rockets.

Fantasy, an unflagging optimism is necessary for a writer at all stages of this rough game. A kind of madness is therefore necessary, when there is every logical reason for a state of depression and discouragement. Perhaps the fact that I can react with utter gloom to this is what keeps me from being psychotic and keeps me merely neurotic. I am doing quite a good day's work today. But I am also aware of the madness that actually sustains me, and I am not made more comfortable or happy by it.

I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.

So the ghostly figure which has haunted these pages, as it haunted my life, goes down into the impenetrable gloom. Like a shadow she first came to me in the loneliness of the night. Like a shadow she passes away in the loneliness of the dead

The deserts of Arabia are innocent of our civilised desolation-the ruins of Palestine are incapable of our modern gloom!

Economic gloom lightens your wallet while weighing down your spirit. Five of the ten most stressful life events are related to whether you are employed and whether the quality of your work experience is good. Your work does more than affect your self-esteem; it organizes your day, connects you with others, and can give you a sense of purpose. Not

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

we get to Preston and find that it's depressing

Life has one vast stern likeness in its gloom

Light was leaking out of the sky, and the fun was leaking out of the afternoon.

The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.

Prophets are dastardly pessimists, to a man.