Gloomy Quotes - Page 10

• As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind... Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?

  Nikolai Gogol

  Ideas, Long, Mind

  "Dead Souls". Book by Nikolai Gogol. Volume 1, Chapter 3, 1842.

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• The gloomy theology of the orthodox--the Calvinists--I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions--nay, most of the notions--which orthodox people have of the divinity of the Bible, I disbelieve. I am so nearly infidel in all my views, that too, in spite of my wishes, that none but the most liberal doctrines can command my assent.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Bible, Believe, Views

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• Some commentators have drawn such a stark and gloomy picture of the Weimar Republic's early difficulties that the Republic seems foredoomed to failure from the outset... The conditions in which Weimar democracy were born were certainly not such as to help it flourish; and as it unfolded, it was clearly saddled with a burden of problems, in a range of areas.

  Mary Fulbrook

  History, Democracy, Republic

  Mary Fulbrook (2014). “A History of Germany 1918-2014: The Divided Nation”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons

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• The path to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on your path, so that you may never experience the humility that the power of the American government has reduced me to. This is the wish of a man who, in his native forests, was once as proud and bold as yourself.

  Black Hawk

  Humility, Men, Light

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• May never glorious sun reflex his beams
  Upon the country where you make abode!
  But darkness and the gloomy shade of death
  Environ you till mischief and despair
  Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Darkness, Despair

  William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons (1843). “The Dramatic Works and Poems”, p.26

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• On the way I stood a moment looking out across the marshes with tall cattails, a patch of water, more marsh, then the woods with a few birch trees shining white at the edge on beyond. In the darkness it all looked just like I felt. Wet and swampy and gloomy, very gloomy. In the morning I painted it. My memory of it is that it was probably my best painting that summer.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Summer, Morning, Memories

  "Some Memories of Drawings". Book by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1974.

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• Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Interesting, Example, Castles

  "Carlos Ruiz Zafón's top 10 20th-century gothic novels". www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2010.

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• I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Reflection, Self, Dwelling

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.29, Powell Publications, LLC

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• The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow.

  Jean Ingelow

  Fog, Long, Red

  Jean Ingelow (1873). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.86

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• On staring out at a gloomy day: First you must realize that it is the day that is gloomy, not you. If you want to be gloomy, too, that's all right, but it's not mandatory.

  Nora Gallagher

  Want, Firsts, Realizing

  Nora Gallagher (1981). “Simple pleasures: wonderful & wild things to do at home”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light and lustre and harmony and loveliness.

  Sydney, Lady Morgan

  Mistake, Sadness, Thinking

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• I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Retirement, Office, Debt

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.211, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy predictions.

  John Howard

  Challenges, Climate, Global Warming

  Interview on "Four Corners", ABC TV, August 28, 2006.

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• What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.

  Jean Cocteau

  Fashion, Heart, Men

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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