Quotes About Gloom

I will call him Small Bob, said Bob. He is a good monster. End of discussion.The Titan hefted his spear and they continued marching into the gloom.

What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

Very well. But I have warned you. In this pages, only suffering awaits.

feeling that always came with the rain and the dark. She'd just

Rat. A curse, an insult, a word totally without light.

Even when your eyes are closed, it feels black. As black as black ever gets, like if you touch it, your hand might get stuck in it, like tar or black quicksand or when you stretch out your hand at night, to turn on a light, but all you feel is darkness.

Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.

The sun sinks to rise again; the day is swallowed up in the gloom of night, to be born out of it, as fresh as if it had never been quenched.

The sad companion, dull-ey'd melancholy.

The pleasure-house is dust:—behind, before, This is no common waste, no common gloom; But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known; But at the coming of the milder day, These monuments shall all be overgrown.

Melancholy Shakespearean passages provided him with relief. They offered structured, resonant versions of gloom. They organized sad topics and made them meaningful. Reciting dark writings aloud let him project his depression outward so that it was filtered through the improving lens of poetry. The rhythms and images of verse crystallized his private experience in a manner similar to the way his finest speeches crystallized and uplifted the national experience.

Distress leads to dimness.

What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.

And depression settled over the kitchen like a wet fog.

Whitby's often silent, and when he speaks his questions and concerns do nothing to alleviate the pressure of that gloom, the sense of intent eternal and everlasting that occupies this stretch of land, that predates Area X. The still, standing water, the oppressive blackness of a sky in which the blue peers down through the trees at startling intervals, only to be taken away again, and only ever seeming to come to you from a thousand miles off anyway.

The room was dim, as though drenched in perpetual afternoon.

they say the herons used to hang like lamps here giving off gloom

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Disappear and save everyone the bother of a dark suit.

Everyone has light around them, except for you. You have shadows.

Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.

It was something black . . . Something tall and black . . . Something very tall and very black and very thin.

of the gloom and up the middle

I lay a while gazing into the darkness, this dense mass of gloom that had no bottom--my thoughts could not fathom it.