Gloom Quotes - Page 8

• My wind is turned to bitter north, That was so soft a south before; My sky, that shone so sunny bright, With foggy gloom is clouded o'er My gay green leaves are yellow-black, Upon the dank autumnal floor; For love, departed once, comes back No more again, no more.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Gay, Wind, Sky

  Arthur Hugh Clough, Francis Turner Palgrave (1862). “Poems”, p.13

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Thoughtful, Night

  7 Copy quote

• When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

  Seneca the Younger

  Science, Sky, Tree

  15 Copy quote

• After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour

  Ellen Glasgow

  Rain, Bars, Golden

  Ellen Glasgow (2008). “Life and Gabriella (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Light, Genius, Awareness

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Country, Children, Sunshine

  Albion Fellows Bacon (1914). “Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no single formula for good sentence. An invisible integument that gives the sentence wholeness and musicality, sometimes. But other times, the formula is almost purely one of context. And yet other times, of sheer precision of meaning. This is a good sentence: "Just as he was settling into the warm mud of alcoholic gloom, Shrike caught his arm." "Warm mud of alcoholic gloom" is exact and right and accurate.

  Rachel Kushner

  Giving, Sometimes, Invisible

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room behind me, came the occasional, soft thud of falling matter - fragments of rotting stone. So time passed, and night grasped the world, wrapping it in wrappings of impenetrable blackness.

  William Hope Hodgson

  Fall, Dark, Night

  William Hope Hodgson (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Hope Hodgson (Illustrated)”, p.218, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom.

  Robert Reich

  Doom And Gloom, May, Irrational

  7 Copy quote

• A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back thousands of years and can penetrate the deepest gloom of the jungle. Nothing can deter that gleam, which is why we primates have survived for so long to meet and procreate. In prison, the survival of romance is not easy, but it finds a way ... In Canada, there has been a succession of romances between prisoners and female guards, nurses, librarians, and one Catholic nun who married the convict after he divorced his wife.

  Shawn Thompson

  Eye, Years, Nurse

  22 Copy quote

• Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Believe, Dark, Destiny

  Friedrich Schiller (1884). “Works”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Persephone herself is but a voice
  or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark
  of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom,
  among the splendor of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the
  lost bride and her groom.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Passion, Dark, Voice

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6848, Delphi Classics

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.

  J. I. Packer

  Thinking, Feelings, Looks

  10 Copy quote

• Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.

  Walter E. Williams

  Doom And Gloom, Class, Political

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays”, p.91, Hoover Press

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.

  John Hall Wheelock

  Needs, Reassurance, States

  4 Copy quote

• A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief benefits are cancer of the lips and stomach, softening of the brain, funeral procesions, and families shrouded in gloom and grief. Although a great many people know this, they still smoke in order to appear sophisticated.

  Ann Landers

  Cancer, Grief, Fire

  33 Copy quote

• If the party of gloom is ever to regain its footing, it will have to start by understanding that those who defeated them are not a bunch of ignorant yahoos looking forward to Armageddon.

  Mona Charen

  Party, Understanding, Ignorant

  4 Copy quote

• Of course, fresh flowers are the answer to any June gloom you may be feeling. Flowers really do solve all problems.

  Mia Moretti

  Flower, June, Feelings

  Source: www.elle.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Doom And Gloom, Differences

  Source: scottlondon.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Andrea Leadsom, I think, has all the qualities that you need at the moment. She's got a lot of zap, a lot of drive, and all the experience. Plus I think she can articulate what's needed at the moment, which is a bit of an antidote to some of the gloom and negativity and misunderstanding about what the Brexit vote means.

  Boris Johnson

  Mean, Thinking, Negativity

  "Theresa May wins first round of voting in Tory leadership race" by Anushka Asthana and Rowena Mason, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2016.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I want to offer particular congratulations to Andrea Leadsom on her stunning achievement. She is now well placed to win and replace the absurd gloom in some quarters with a positive, confident and optimistic approach, not just to Europe, but to government all round.

  Boris Johnson

  Congratulations, Optimistic, Winning

  "Tory leadership election: Leadsom beats Gove to join Theresa May on shortlist - live" by Andrew Sparrow, Claire Phipps and Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope.

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

  Depressing, Doom And Gloom, Giving

  "Engaging Youth: Tools for Change". Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think to dwell continually on the dark side creates gloom and despair and anger and hatred, and that just adds to the darkness. So rather than that, we need to think of the beauty in the world, and also send out love and compassion to all beings in this world. Not just the people we like, but people who we find difficult. Because they are very deeply in need of compassion.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Dark, Thinking, Compassion

  12 Copy quote

• When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Inspiration, Past, Relief

  6 Copy quote

• The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.

  Galileo Galilei

  Grateful, Moon, Night

  11 Copy quote