Gloom Quotes

• Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life Is Too Short, Trying, Want

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Apr 26, 2014

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• The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Motivational, Friendship, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see - and to see we have only to look.

  Giovanni Giocondo

  Joy, Darkness, Shadow

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• No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you'll release the weight of those burdens, you will see the sun break forth.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.

  James Joyce

  Book, Singing, Rooms

  James Joyce (2015). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.438, Courier Dover Publications

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• And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.

  Emily Bronte

  Cheer, Midst

  Emily Bronte, “A Little While, A Little While”

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• Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Criticism, Kind, Defeat

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• Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Life, Science, Doom And Gloom

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• Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

  Herodotus

  Rain, Night, Snow

  Herodotus (2008). “The Histories”, p.718, OUP Oxford

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• And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.

  Bram Stoker

  Beautiful, Fall, Snow

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.359, "F+W Media, Inc."

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

  Wilfred Owen

  Age, Inward, No Hope

  "Complete Works of Wilfred Owen".

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• My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.

  Buffalo Bill

  Brother, Neighborhood, Casts

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.20, U of Nebraska Press

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• Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Men, Study

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.2, New Directions Publishing

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• A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

  Walter de La Mare

  Dream, Light, May

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• The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sunshine, House, Grace

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “Kavanagh. Driftwood”, p.363

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• Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

  Matthew Arnold

  Air, Whispering, Rooms

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.429, Delphi Classics

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• For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles of giant weeds, over sun-flickered spaces and on and on into gloom, cold, deep, inscrutable; suddenly she shoots to the surface and sports on the wind-wrinkled waves; that is, has a positive need to brush, scrape, kindle herself, gossiping.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sports, Weed, Wind

  Virginia Woolf (1996). “Mrs Dalloway”, p.117, Wordsworth Editions

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• Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!

  Alexander Pope

  Love, Losing, Lost

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.239

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• Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Eye, Light

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• Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear
  Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair;
  A messenger of Hope comes every night to me,
  And offers for short life, eternal liberty.

  Emily Bronte

  Hope, Short Life, Night

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.109, The Floating Press

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• If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with such awful depth of gloom as we do. If we could imbue our children with distinct faith in immortality, we should never speak of people as dead, but passed into another world. We should speak of the body as a cast-off garment, which the wearer had outgrown; consecrated indeed by the beloved being that used it for a season, but of no value within itself.

  Lydia M. Child

  Death, Children, People

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• Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.

  Joseph Conrad

  Stars, Sunshine, Light

  Joseph Conrad (2012). “Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.19, Penguin

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• Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

  Joseph Addison

  Clouds, Break Through, Serenity

  'The Spectator' no. 381, 17 May 1712

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• I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

  Shirley Henderson

  Doom And Gloom, Laughing, Scottish

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

  James Keller

  Depression, Atmosphere, Individual

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