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Quotes About Gloom

Her gloom and loneliness forgotten as she found peace in the strength and stillness of her movement up the mixed terrain of the North Face.
~ Unknown
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
~ Victor Hugo
There was no grandeur here, no sublimity, only weariness and gloom.
~ Peter Ackroyd
He was, perhaps like [the depressive] Dino Watters, addicted to gloom. She felt sorry for him if that were so. It was a terrible malady to have. Far worse than the several others.
~ Philip K. Dick
Le soleil noir de la Mélancolie.
~ Philip Pullman
In the gloom, though, Lyra sensed the presence of the Dust, for the air seemed to be full of dark intentions, like the forms of thoughts not yet born.
~ Philip Pullman
at some point last year, her gloom met my doom and she thought it was a good match. i'm not so sure, but at least i get coffee out of it.
~ David Levithan
doldrums, n. The proper verb for depression is sink.
~ David Levithan
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity – it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
~ Yann Martel
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud .
~ Yann Martel
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possesive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Y el silencio fue tan fúnebre para su corazón siempre aterrado, que la espalda se le heló de horrible presentimiento.
~ Horacio Quiroga
There was no joy here. There was only the sad business of survival.
~ D.J. MacHale
I was imbued from a very early age with a sense of doom.
~ Ruth Rendell
Losing his temper was a luxury he rarely permitted himself, but for the past week he'd been invaded by a sullen gloom that weighted every thought and heartbeat, and made him want to lash out at anyone within reach. All because of a woman he had known better than to want. Lady Helen Ravenel... a woman who was cultured, innocent, shy, aristocratic. Everything he was not.
~ Lisa Kleypas
There's no lights
~ Unknown
For in the night, unseen, a single warrior, In sombre harness mailed, Dreaded of man, and surnamed the Destroyer, The rampart wall has scaled. He passed into the chamber of the sleeper, The dark and silent room, And as he entered, darker grew, and deeper, The silence and the gloom.
~ Unknown
The encroaching darkness that shrouded him couldn't compare to the joyless gloom that hung in his heart.
~ Unknown
Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws.
~ Jim Butcher
The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers
~ W.H. Auden
Through thickest gloom look back, immortal shade, On that confusion which thy death has made.
~ Phillis Wheatley
[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.
~ Barbara Stanwyck
My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
~ Buffalo Bill