Gloom Quotes - Page 4

• When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.

  Samuel Johnson

  Power, Anxiety, Mind

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• But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most wretched ridiculous things happen to make one laugh in spite of oneself.

  Georgette Heyer

  Real, Epic, Laughing

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• Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.

  Mabel Collins

  Men, Rewards, Glory

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• "And now you have joy?" "I do indeed." "And how did you get it?" "I chose it, admitted it into my life, then I celebrated its arrival in my heart. I made my celebration so loud and boisterous, I prohibited all gloom from attending the celebration".

  Calvin Miller

  Life, Heart, Joy

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• The very names assigned to angels by their Creator, convey to us ideas pre-eminently pleasing, fitted to captivate the heart, and exalt the imagination; ideas which dispel gloom, banish despondency, enliven hope, and awaken sincere and unmingled joy.

  Timothy Dwight V

  Heart, Angel, Names

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• Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the chatter and the criticism will stop. Set down nothing that will not help somebody.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Rejection, Criticism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Penguin

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• Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the nation of optimism, after all. We elect leaders who promise hope and change. We are the shining city on a hill. But what happens when the lights go out?

  Kathleen Parker

  Money, Doom And Gloom, Light

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• Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.

  Barbara Holland

  Weed, Joy, Sturdy

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• I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,as would render it eligible for human kind, that there should be such a state. These fine models of religion are the mere product of philosophy. For as death lies between the eye and the prospect of futurity, that event is so shocking to nature, that it must throw a gloom on all the regions which lie beyond it; and suggest to the generality of mankind the idea of Cerberus and Furies; devils, and torrents of fire and brimstone.

  David Hume

  Death, Lying, Philosophy

  David Hume, John Charles Addison Gaskin (1998). “Dialogues and Natural History of Religion”, p.127, Oxford University Press, USA

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• When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the gloom: For how long will you be hidden?

  Jean Racine

  God, Faith, Night

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• O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time; I press God's lamp Close to my breast; its splendor soon or late Will pierce the gloom. I shall emerge some day.

  Robert Browning

  Stars, Dark, Sea

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• Here's what I say: We will ignore the cult of doom and gloom and embrace the cause of zoom and boom. We will laugh at the stupidity of evil and hate, and summon the brilliance of praise and create. . . Life is crazily in love with us-wildly and innocently in love with us. The universe always gives us exactly what we need, exactly when we need it.

  Rob Brezsny

  Hate, Doom And Gloom, Evil

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• And when that bad news washes over you and that pain sponges in, I just hope you feel like you've always got two choices.  One, you can swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever.  Or two, you can grieve, and then face the future with newly sober eyes.

  Neil Pasricha

  Pain, Eye, Grieving

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• Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Light, Race, World

  Stephen Leacock (2012). “Feast of Stephen”, p.111, McClelland & Stewart

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• The vision seemed to enter the house with me-the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the gloom of the forests, the glitter of the reach between the murky bends, the beat of the drum, regular and muffled like the beating of a heart-the heart of a conquering darkness.

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart, House, Darkness

  Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Do not allow darkness and gloom to enter into your hearts. I want to give you a rule by which you may know that the spirit which you have is the right spirit. The Spirit of God produces cheerfulness, joy, light and good feelings. Whenever you feel gloomy and despondent and are downcast, unless it be for your sins, you may know it is not the Spirit of God which you have. Fight against it and drive it out of your heart. The Spirit of God is a spirit of hope; it is not a spirit of gloom.

  George Q. Cannon

  Inspirational, God, Hope

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• A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Wall, Winter

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.14, Booklassic

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• At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. And now and then it blazes forth in veiled but hot anger.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Hot, Now And Then, Natural

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2012). “The Souls of Black Folk”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

  Robert Burns

  Wish, Despair, Rays

  Robert Burns (1859). “The Poetical Works and Letters of Robert Burns. With Life. Eight Engravings on Steel. (In this Edition the More Objectionable Passages and Pieces are Omitted.).”, p.81

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• It is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable; that when the real world is shut out, it can create a world for itself, and with a necromantic power can conjure up glorious shapes and forms, and brilliant visions to make solitude populous, and irradiate the gloom of a dungeon.

  Washington Irving

  Real, Imagination, Solitude

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more”, p.208, e-artnow

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• Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. . . . gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis.

  Gay Talese

  Passion, Games, People

  Gay Talese (2013). “The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World”, p.1, Random House

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• But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom only grew denser.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Autumn, Mind, Trying

  Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “The Sound of the Mountain”, p.210, Vintage

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• The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, America, Envy

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• When people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work. Kill the grimness with laughter. Encourage exuberance. Get rid of sad dogs that spread gloom.

  David Ogilvy

  Dog, Laughter, Fun

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• Religion! How it dominates man's mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion.But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.

  Emma Goldman

  Men, Blood, Soul

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.29, 谷月社

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