Quotes About Gloomy

I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.

none of them were happy.

With their cheerless titles, who would want to read them?

The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.

I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the unknown and the unknowable to poison all their joy in life.

those words dampen our spirits

In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping a scythe, a grinning skull, a threatening figure with terrible face and uplifted dart, a bony scarecrow shaking an hour-glass--all that could alarm and repel has been gathered round this rightly-named King of Terrors.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year

And it gets so gloomy and so monotonous. Probably the casino---

He grew morose, and felt himself half overcome by funk

The celebration had to be postponed: Carol had ovarian cancer. She refused to be gloomy about it.

There is so much talk about being offended by christianity because it is so dark and gloomy, offended because it is so rigorous etc. But it would be best of all to explain for once that the real reason that men are offended by christianity is that it is too high, because its goal is not man's goal, because it wants to make man into something so extraordinary that he cannot grasp the thought.

She was in tears; and, strange as it was, in spite of the emotions he felt at the sight of these tears, he looked also at Madame de Villefort, and it appeared to him as if a slight gloomy smile had passed over her thin lips, like those meteors which are seen passing inauspiciously between two clouds in a stormy sky.

It was a stormy and dark night;

Es propio de los espíritus débiles el ver todas las cosas a través de un velo. El alma se forma a sí misma sus horizontes. Vuestra alma es sombría, y os presenta un cielo borrascoso.

The gloomy light, the silence and the awful poetry of night had no doubt combined with the fearful poetry of her conscience: the poisoner was afraid to see her work.

the sky outside was so gloomy it pushed down on anyone who dared to walk beneath it.

It had been raining, that gray, unpoetic rain of midwinter in a dreary suburb.

Faust: What cheerful light breaks on my gloomy fancies, As in the midnight woods when moonlight floods the skies?

Nowhere is there an account or portrait of Christ laughing... he is always stern, serious and as gloomy as a prison guard. Never does one see him laughing until tears appear in his eyes like the roly-poly squint-eyed Buddha guffawing with arms upraised.

Nice day for a funeral.

En medio del desolado paraje, incluso el tétrico bosque de más allá parecía un hogar acogedor.