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Quotes About Gloomy

What have you done to my dairy?" he said. "What happened to the Black Hole of Calcutta I was saving for the setting of the Gothic horror play I was going to write one of these days? Where are all my beautiful spiders? Where are my gloomy corners, where ghoulies might lurk? What have you done with the six inches of dirt on the floor? That was good dirt. I was saving it.
~ Loretta Chase
An apocalypse, by its nature, is kind of doomy and gloomy.
~ Jim Butcher
What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science
~ Thomas Carlyle
January is the despairing heart of the Scottish winter
~ Denise Mina
The gloomy shade of death.
~ William Shakespeare
Heavy clouds and rain pouring down. They look how I feel.
~ Unknown
I hate being in a sad depressed mood for no reason...
~ Unknown
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.
~ John Newton
He'd walked as a ghost in the gloomy bowels of this opera house for so long, darkness had become his brother, which was fitting, since his father was the night, and sunlight their forgotten friend.
~ Unknown
Meanwhile Crumb Street, never a place of beauty, that afternoon was at its worst. The fog slopped over its low houses like a bucketful of cold soup over a row of dirty stoves. The
~ Margery Allingham
Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
~ George Carlin
People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.
~ Michael Haneke
I think that the habit of gloomy poetry is very funny. It's like a special competition in losing.
~ Unknown
Really it tires one to hear you. How come you always to be so cheerful?" "And how come YOU always to be so gloomy?" retorted the host. "How, you ask? Simply because I am so.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Of late a gloomy rain has been falling almost incessantly. Whatever I do depresses me.
~ Osamu Dazai
Being gloomy is easier than being cheerful. Anybody can say 'I've got cancer' and get a rise out of a crowd. But how many of us can do five minutes of good stand-up comedy?" —
~ Pam Grout
There was gray everywhere.
~ Pam Jenoff
many dark and bloody
~ Unknown