Gloomy Quotes

• Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

  Jean Paul

  Funny, Music, Night

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• End is a gloomy word.

  Robert Frost

  Ends

  Robert Frost (2013). “Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)”, p.190, Delphi Classics

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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 get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Bits

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• Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Vacancy, Calm, Idle

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I: 1731-1772”, p.238, Princeton University Press

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• We fear not the truth, even if it be gloomy, but its counterfeit.

  Berl Katznelson

  Fear Not, Counterfeit, Ifs

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• Don’t be gloomy. Do not dwell on unkind things. Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight. Even if you are not happy, put a smile on your face. ‘Accentuate the positive.’ Look a little deeper for the good. Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, with great and strong purpose in your heart. Love life.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Strong, Heart, Love Life

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• The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour.

  Charles Dickens

  Rain, Dark, Air

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.347

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• What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Soul, Addresses, Knows

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• In narrow and gloomy streets, keep your spirit high!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Spirit, Streets

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• People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

  Stephen Rea

  Smile, People, Cameras

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• When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Depression, Running, Book

  Michel de Montaigne (1956). “Autobiography: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times ...”

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• Don't be gloomy. Even if you are not happy, put a smile on your face. [Life is about] joy,... something to be happy and excited about.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Joy, Faces, Life Is

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• You must rise above
  The gloomy clouds
  Covering the mountaintop
  Otherwise, how will you
  Ever see the brightness?

  Ryokan Taigu

  Clouds, Covering, Brightness

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• My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

  Yann Martel

  Suffering, Left

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.12, Canongate Books

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• It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.

  Charles Dickens

  Regret, Night, Errors

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.577

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• When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1984, Manonmani Publishers

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• Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Happiness, Sad

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• I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

  Robert Wyatt

  Respect, Men, Rocks

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• When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

  C.P. Snow

  Hero, Acceptance, Men

  C.P. Snow (2010). “The Physicists”, p.97, House of Stratus

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• On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Westminster Abbey, Ought, Abbey

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.54, BoD – Books on Demand

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• One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.

  Daniel Boone

  Country, Diversity, One Day

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.5, Applewood Books

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• You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

  Lydia M. Child

  Inspirational, Encouraging, People

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• I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Thinking, Mad, Figures

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• A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Thank You, Wedding, Guests

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.2262, Delphi Classics

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