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• In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Dark, House, Literature

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.8, BoD – Books on Demand

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• To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Hatred, Soul, Harbors

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• I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Unknown Worlds, Giving, Shadow

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• Philosophy became a gloomy science, in the labyrinth of which people vainly tried to find the exit, called The Truth.

  Edward Joseph Schwartz

  Truth, Philosophy, Science

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• A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Funny, Family, Sad

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.1117, Race Point Pub

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• [On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Book, Museums, Trying

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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• Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Perspective, Mind, Endurance

  Letter to John Adams, 1 August (1816)

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• New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.

  Herb Caen

  Stuck, Mutual, New Yorkers

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• There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

  James Branch Cabell

  Men, Escaping, Ink

  James Branch Cabell (2001). “The Cream of the Jest”, p.44, Wildside Press LLC

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• That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.

  John Dryden

  Brave, Soul, Treasure

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• The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Depression, Doors, Iron

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• And wisdom is a butterfly
  And not a gloomy bird of prey.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, Butterfly, Optimism

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

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• It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?

  Julian Fellowes

  Garden, Needs, Helping

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• The gloomy shade of death.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Shade

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes”, p.169

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• And if joy were not on the earth,
  There were an end of change and birth,
  And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die,
  And in some gloomy barrow lie
  Folded like a frozen fly.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Change, Lying

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

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• In the midway of this our mortal life,
  I found me in a gloomy wood, astray,
  Gone from the path direct.

  Dante Alighieri

  Life, Gone, Woods

  Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (2010). “The Divine Comedy”, p.204, Bibliolis Books

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• We can affect people around us so much with our moods. A depressed person can make a room gloomy and a sweet nature can cause the lion to lie down with the lamb.

  Polly Horvath

  Sweet, Lying, Depressed Person

  Polly Horvath (2008). “My One Hundred Adventures”, p.21, Schwartz & Wade

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• I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Worst Times, Strange, Comic

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

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• I hope the doctrine that Christians ought to be gloomy will soon be driven out of the universe. There are no people in the world who have such a right to be happy, nor have such cause to be joyful as the saints of the living God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, People, Saint

  Charles Spurgeon (2010). “Collected Works Vol. 2”, p.231, Lulu.com

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• I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk know this and fight very hard, but after a few years life gets easier for them and they think they've become completely human when they've only stopped trying. I stopped trying, but my life was so full of strenuous routines that I wouldn't have noticed had it been not for my disease. My whole professional life was a diseased and grandiose attack on my humanity. It is an achievement to know that I am simply a wounded and dying man. Who can be more regal than a dying man?

  Alasdair Gray

  Good Life, Mean, Fighting

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• Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon, there lived a King who was very Gloomy on Tuesday mornings because he was so Sad thinking about how Unhappy he had been on Monday and how completely Mournful he would be on Wednesday.

  Walt Kelly

  Friday, Monday, Morning

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• Days to come stand in front of us like a row of lighted candles— golden, warm, and vivid candles. Days gone by fall behind us, a gloomy line of snuffed-out candles; the nearest are smoking still, cold, melted, and bent. I don’t want to look at them: their shape saddens me, and it saddens me to remember their original light. I look ahead at my lighted candles. I don’t want to turn for fear of seeing, terrified, how quickly that dark line gets longer, how quickly the snuffed-out candles proliferate.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Fall, Dark, Light

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• But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows down, too weary to go on, and takes stock of where it's been and where it's going. During these gloomy pauses, we often discover parts of ourselves we never knew we possessed, talents that, properly activated, enrich our lives.

  Eric G. Wilson

  Grief, Soul, Suffering

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• Anyone who is not totally dead to himself will soon find that he is tempted and overcome by piddling and frivolous things. Whoever is weak in spirit, given to the flesh and inclined to sensual things can, but only with great difficulty, drag himself away from his earthly desires. Therefore he is often gloomy and sad when he is trying to pull himself away from them, and easily gives way to anger should someone attempt to oppose him.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Giving, Sensual, Desire

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• Mirrors have come to mean much more than the original 'looking glass.' They are now a part of the decorative scheme of a modern home. By using them, there are no dark, gloomy corners, no drab caverns for halls. There can be a feeling of freedom, light, air, space.

  Dorothy Draper

  Home, Mean, Dark

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