Gloom Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Man United, for all the doom and gloom, they're still the best club on the planet, they've got the best supporters and the best manager... United will always be United. To me, they are still the best and whatever disappointments they're having at the moment, don't worry, they'll bounce back. They always do.

  Roy Keane

  Disappointment, Doom And Gloom, Worry

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• An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Chess, Pawns, Spread

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• It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.

  Aimee Mann

  Dream, Waking, Easy

  Song: True Believer, 2008

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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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• This can be one of cheerfulness or gloom because color which is so inexpensive, is what does the trick. Not color alone but color plus imaginative lighting and cleverly grouping of the furniture. You say you have an old lobby that nothing much can be done with? Oh yes it can!

  Dorothy Draper

  Color, Doe, Done

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