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Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom. -- Wilfred Owen
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life. -- Roger Tory Peterson
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. -- Thomas Jefferson
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. -- Khalil Gibran
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. -- Ezra Pound
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness. -- Maurice Maeterlinck
Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show. -- Matthew Arnold
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed. -- Theodore C. Sorensen
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. -- Joseph Addison
A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace. -- Walter de La Mare
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. -- Ulysses S. Grant
And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again. -- Bram Stoker
Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by -- Yann Martel
Gloom and darkness are temporary. Joy comes in the morning. -- Sunday Adelaja
Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending. -- Barbara Holland
Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular. -- Saul Alinsky
And you, are Ruin, the chosen Carnificem, and WOE is what you're all about, it's your purpose. Doom and Gloom. ~Caliber Creed -- Lucian Bane
Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times, -- Thabo Mbeki
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. Gravity, a mysterious carriage of the body to conceal the defects of the mind." -- Ezra Pound
Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it. -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it. -- Stephen Leacock
I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom. -- Fareed Zakaria
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom. -- Margaret Drabble
I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.' -- Mahatma Gandhi
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. -- Orson Welles
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. -- Margaret Atwood
My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood. -- Buffalo Bill
I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh. -- Shirley Henderson
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. -- Zig Ziglar
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else. -- Arnold Bennett
We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door. -- Said Sayrafiezadeh
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave. -- Francis Scott Key
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service] -- Herodotus
As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such. -- Alain de Botton
The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see - and to see we have only to look. -- Giovanni Giocondo
One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I'm weary of my lonely but And of its blasted tree, The very lake is like my lot, So silent constantly-- I've liv'd amid the forest gloom Until I almost fear-- When will the thrilling voices come My spirit thirsts to hear? -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes. -- Os Guinness
There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom. -- Marie Osmond
I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference. -- Orlando Bloom
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people. -- Zig Ziglar
For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant. -- Simon Cowell
A joke a day keeps the gloom away! -- Cesar Romero
An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard. -- Savielly Tartakower
The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard -- Aron Nimzowitsch
The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom. -- Jane Austen
the little street Into its gloom retires, secluded and shy. -- Laurence Binyon
Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom... -- John Milton
Like cats' eyes gleaming in the gloom, the precious diamonds rest. -- Robert B. Leighton
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on. -- John Henry Newman
May the Lord deem us from deep gloom to the light. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. -- John Milton
It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow. -- Aimee Mann
You want me to be all doom and gloom, or just shut up? -- Stephenie Meyer
Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing? -- William Dean Howells
The gospel of Jesus Christ is not a religion of mourning and gloom. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom. -- Robert Burns
Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person. -- Daryn Kagan
What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness? -- Frances Wright
Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! -- Alexander Pope
Look!" said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, "Someone who cares! -- Eoin Colfer
Through thickest gloom look back, immortal shade, On that confusion which thy death has made. -- Phillis Wheatley
I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus. -- Gerald Durrell
(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time) -- Kate Atkinson
Many a maiden, With white feet dancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom. -- Euripides
Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me. -- Suzanne Collins
The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom. -- Garrison Keillor
Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom. -- Robert Plant
In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom. -- Robert Reich
My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate. -- Joanna Baillie
The advent of truth, like the dawn of day, agitates the elements, while it disperses the gloom. -- Elias Lyman Magoon
Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom. -- Stanislaw Lem
The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room. -- Sammy Cahn
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential. -- Cyril Connolly
I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom. -- James Joyce
Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance. -- John Hall Wheelock
The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist. -- Hannah Kent
Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom. -- Alain de Botton
Blessed are the happiness makers. Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. Take joy. -- Giovanni Giocondo
I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope. -- Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
I could never be lonely without a husband, but without my trinkets, my golden gods, I could find abysmal gloom. -- Lillian Russell
Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control. -- Walter E. Williams
Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind. -- Leigh Hunt
Of course, fresh flowers are the answer to any June gloom you may be feeling. Flowers really do solve all problems. -- Mia Moretti
This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom. -- J. K. Rowling
Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom. -- Aretaeus of Cappadocia
In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom. -- Samuel Johnson
Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair. -- Ian Holm
And light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom In sweet relief. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
The heart that is constantly overflowing with gratitude will be safe from those attacks of resentfulness and gloom that bother so many persons. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom. -- Yukio Mishima
In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment. -- Mabel Collins
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
Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic. -- Nick Hornby
In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in. -- Jeff Cooper
As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom only grew denser. -- Yasunari Kawabata
The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy. -- Ronald Reagan
When people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work. Kill the grimness with laughter. Encourage exuberance. Get rid of sad dogs that spread gloom. -- David Ogilvy
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
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
Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the darkest hell and the severest woe. -- Robert Pollok
I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster." End of discussion.The Titan hefted his spear and they continued marching into the gloom. -- Rick Riordan
At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. And now and then it blazes forth in veiled but hot anger. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive. -- Charles Tennyson Turner
Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily. Live enthusiastically, knowing that God does not dwell in gloom and melancholy, but in light and love. -- Ezra Taft Benson
And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. ("The Testimony of the Suns") -- George Sterling
There will always be dissident voices heard in the land, expressing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side and seeking influence without responsibility. -- John F. Kennedy
Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. . . . gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis. -- Gay Talese
There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion. -- George Berkeley
Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fateâ??s immortal loom -- Charles Baudelaire
There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook. -- James Keller
They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining. -- Jack Kerouac

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