Quotes About Gloomy

The prospect is chilling, on every Side. Gloomy, dark, melancholy, and dispiriting. When and where will the light spring up?

And if joy were not on the earth, There were an end of change and birth, And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die, And in some gloomy barrow lie Folded like a frozen fly.

In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.

London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.

To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable art: yet what could be more necessary than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds in which high spirits play no part. Only excess of strength is proof of strength.

So far away from that gloomy New Orleans corner, from the sad old city festering with secrets in its perpetual Caribbean heat

All my gloomy years were gone as if a million candles had been lighted in this chapel.

While we're talking about my dreams, about how I'm gloomy and combative, and about displacing those feelings onto my pillow instead of my loved ones.

Gray feels like the city.

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.

In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.

Lodgings in London are always gloomy. Gloomy colours wear better than bright ones for curtains and carpets, and the keepers of lodgings in London seem to think that a certain dinginess of appearance is respectable. I never saw a London lodging in which any attempt at cheerfulness had been made, and I do not think that any such attempt, if made, would pay.

looking up and down the street, which managed, even in the sunlight, to be dark and ugly.

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.

Not that fair fieldOf Enna, where Proserpin gathering flowersHerself a fairer flower by gloomy DisWas gathered, which cost Ceres all that painTo seek her through the world.

A gloomy, harebrained enthusiast, after his death may have a place in the calendar; but will scarcely ever be admitted, when alive, into intimacy and society, except by those who are as delirious and dismal as himself" (E:II:27o).

He came home quite gloomy, though, because the pointers were winning all down the line, ' ' Ell-ooping all over the country like a lot of gray'ounds,' is what he told me. 'Don't they find birds?' I asked, and I gathered from what he said that when a pointer stumbled over a bevy, he stopped in astonishment.

You sure do look forlorn,

lugubrious" atmosphere.

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time.

The day was gray, the color of Europe.

el día era gris, el color de Europa