Quotes About Gloom

although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)

They have no sense of humour whatsoever – even Bunty has a sense of humour compared with our hosts. They have united Prussian gloom and Presbyterian dourness in an awesome combination.

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.

Many a maiden, With white feet glancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom.

The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs, the music is actually pretty peaceful and lulling.

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

The day stared back an empty gray, with not a speck of white to give character to the lifeless sky.

To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However, at this particular moment I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.

To an Isle in the Water Shy one, shy one, Shy one of my heart, She moves in the firelight Pensively apart. She carries in the dishes, And lays them in a row. To an isle in the water With her would I go. She carries in the candles, And lights the curtained room, Shy in the doorway And shy in the gloom; And shy as a rabbit, Helpful and shy. To an isle in the water With her would I fly.

It was a place if not hell then certainly the room across the hall from it.

who like the taste of being hurt. That makes you lower than the mice and the roaches. At least they try to save their skins, they got a normal outlook. But you, you're just a clown that ain't funny. And that's a sad picture, that's the saddest picture of all. Like on the outside it's the stupid crazy smile and inside it's a gloomy place where all they play is the blues. He frowned.

When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the gloom: For how long will you be hidden?

I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

Abandon every hope, you who enter.

Every Friday is black where I work.

At my place I can really tell when winter has come.. It's when sunlight is pathetically crawling in my courtyard, incapable of reaching my window anymore.

There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime

How yo' gloom tu'ns into gladness,   How yo' joy drives out de doubt When de oven do' is opened,   An' de smell comes po'in' out;

They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and gray under the stars

They have decided to chance it, the healer's farm being only twenty miles off the main road and in her now, gusts of hope, the morbid gloom of earlier brushed away. Something so sacred about this man using his own blood, as did the Savior.

The light is fading from the day. The rest is darkness and dismay.

Je suis rongé d'une tristesse auprès de laquelle la nuit la plus sombre est une lumière éblouissante

I've always been into dark colours.