Gloom Quotes - Page 11

• How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Tunnels, Light

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.13

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• What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?

  Frances Wright

  Darkness, Sun, Glory

  Frances Wright (1831). “A Few Days in Athens: Being the Translation of a Greek Manuscript Discovered in Herculaneum”, p.94

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• The breath of springtime at this twilight hour
  Comes through the gathering glooms,
  And bears the stolen sweets of many a flower
  Into my silent rooms.

  William C. Bryant

  Sweet, Spring, Flower

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• Oh, Constellations of the early night
  That sparkled brighter as the twilight died,
  And made the darkness glorious! I have seen
  Your rays grow dim upon the horizon's edge
  And sink behind the mountains. I have seen
  The great Orion, with his jewelled belt,
  That large-limbed warrior of the skies, go down
  Into the gloom. Beside him sank a crowd
  Of shining ones.

  William C. Bryant

  Stars, Twilight, Warrior

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Constellations”

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• Cold hearts are not anxious enough to doubt. Men who love will have their misgivings at times; that is not the evil. But the evil is, when men go on in that languid, doubting way, content to doubt, proud of their doubts, morbidly glad to talk about them, liking the romantic gloom of twilight, without the manliness to say,--I must and will know the truth. That did not John. Brethren, John appealed to Christ.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Twilight, Heart, Men

  Frederick William Robertson (1858). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series”, p.320

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• I'm weary of my lonely but
  And of its blasted tree,
  The very lake is like my lot,
  So silent constantly--
  I've liv'd amid the forest gloom
  Until I almost fear--
  When will the thrilling voices come
  My spirit thirsts to hear?

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Country, Lonely, Voice

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• During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was - but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Country, Book, Autumn

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.128, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Flower, Grief

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.33

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• Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?

  William Arthur Ward

  Happiness, Gratitude, Hate

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• You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. — Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.

  John Adams

  Trust, Mean, Thinking

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 1: Life of John Adams”, p.191, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. The days are always dark enough. There is no need for us to emphasize the fact by spreading further gloom.

  George Madison Adams

  Leadership, Encouragement, Dark

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• Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Happiness, Strong

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. V: Of mountain beauty”, p.328

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• The "Kumulipo" is an old Hawaiian prayer chant that poetically describes the creation of the world. The word literally means "beginning-in-deep-darkness." Here darkness doesn't connote gloom and evil. Rather, it's about the inscrutability of the embryonic state; the obscure chaos that reigns before germination.

  Rob Brezsny

  Prayer, Writing, Mean

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.194, Frog Books

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• No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain. Again, the most strenuous labor affords the greatest artists but a disquieting gleam which only reveals their inadequacy, while the self-satisfied ignoramus surrounded by the deepest gloom flatters himself that he has nothing more to learn.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Artist, Self, Ballet

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• An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the thirteenth looked down on the black ash heaps of the city. Ignoring the twelve windows, the prince always looked out through the thirteenth. 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

  Courage, Cities, Individuality

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• Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily. Live enthusiastically, knowing that God does not dwell in gloom and melancholy, but in light and love.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Love, Happiness, Light

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Love is the simplest of all earthly things.
  It needs no grandeur of celestial trust
  In more than what it is, no holy wings:
  It stands with honest feet in honest dust,
  And is the body's blossoming in clear air
  Of trustfulness and joyance when alone
  Two mortals pass beyond the hour's despair
  And claim that Paradise which is their own.
  Amid a universe of sweat and blood,
  Beyond the glooms of all the nations' hate,
  Lovers, forgetful of the poisoned mood
  Of the loud world, in secret ere too late
  A gentle sacrament may celebrate
  Before their private altar of the good.

  Arthur Davison Ficke

  Hate, Love Is, Dust

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• Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom.

  Aretaeus of Cappadocia

  Light, Rays, Disease

  Aretaeus (of Cappadocia.), Francis Adams (1972). “Aretaiou Kappadokou Ta Sōzomena: The Extant Works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian”

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• A thunder-storm!—the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud is from its slumber riven, Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan, And felt Omnipotence around him thrown? With what a gloom the ush’ring scene appears! The leaves all shiv’ring with instinctive fears, The waters curling with a fellow dread, A veiling fervour round creation spread, And, last, the heavy rain’s reluctant shower, With big drops patt’ring on the tree and bower, While wizard shapes the bowing sky deform,— All mark the coming of the thunder-storm!

  Robert Montgomery

  Rain, Omnipotence, Sky

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• The little bee returns with evening's gloom,
  To join her comrades in the braided hive,
  Where, housed beside their might honey-comb,
  They dream their polity shall long survive.
  Charles Tennyson Turner - A Summer Night in the Bee Hive
  The happiness of the bee & the dolphin is to exist.
  For man it is to know that & to wonder at it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Summer, Dream, Night

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• Not only do we cheat ourselves and those around us if we are only glum or always wary when it comes time to respond to divine stirrings. No, we are then also being simply unfaithful to the surrounding reality. The one who purges gloom has given occasions and reasons, in the midst of life's sadness, to be joyful.

  Martin E. Marty

  Sadness, Reality, Unfaithful

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• Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.

  John Henry Newman

  Dark, Light, Light And Dark

  "Lead, Kindly Light" l. 1 (1834)

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• The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Men, Soul, Gold

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers: A sea turn, and other papers”

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• Where's the hope that can abate
  The grief of hearts thus desolate
  That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage,
  And mitigate the gloom of Age?
  Religion bids the tempest cease,
  And, leads her to a port of peace;
  And on, the lonely pilot steers
  Through the lapse of future years.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Hope, Lonely, Grief

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems”, p.103

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• It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.

  Martin Amis

  Fashion, Thinking, Half

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

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