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I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast. -- Friedrich Schiller
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. -- Jean Paul
People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. -- Stephen Rea
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes. -- Jean Racine
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. -- Thomas Jefferson
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. -- Francis of Assisi
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey. -- Karl Philipp Moritz
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
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief. -- Benjamin Disraeli
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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
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
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. -- Samuel Johnson
Life is not like Gloomy Sunday, with a second ending when the people are disturbed. -- Emilie Autumn
In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow. -- Francis Parkman
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
Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow He would be coy, and would not love at all; Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought, Than love united to a jealous thought. -- Robert Greene
May God protect me from gloomy saints. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration. -- Herb Caen
Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him. -- Daniel H. Hill
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. -- Grace Paley
I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure. -- Kenneth Branagh
I think I'm less gloomy than I used to be - I've got a very supportive other half. -- Martin Freeman
Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the Lord. Be positive. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends. -- Richard K. Morgan
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy. -- Thomas Jefferson
I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life. -- John Updike
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
I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo. -- Gavin Rossdale
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
All the world loves a young emerging artist, and sometimes it seems that all the world wants to be one - on a bad, gloomy planet, to be colourful and creative seems so promising. -- Michael Leunig
People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist. -- Michael Haneke
Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations. -- Jarvis Cocker
Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions. -- Desiderius Erasmus
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
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
It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy day; but the interposition of clouds and vaporous exhalations. Neither is thy soul beyond the reach of the promise, nor does God withdraw Himself; but the vapours of thy carnal, unbelieving heart do cloud thee. -- John Owen
I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict. -- Kurt Cobain
I don't know about you, but I've saved cards that old high school flames wrote me as well as those that employees have written me over the years. The power of genuine, customized appreciation will never lose its value, even in a gloomy economy... in fact, it's probably what we're all thirsty for in this desert of a depression. -- Chip Conley
Sometimes a game comes at just the right moment in your life. 'Flower' is beautiful, serene, and a bit of sunshine in a gloomy world. I remember going through a rough spot in my life and turning on 'Flower' for a little break in the day. You fly through luscious landscapes collecting petals and painting the world with life. -- Rob Manuel
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March! -- Bayard Taylor
End is a gloomy word. -- Robert Frost
My suffering left me sad and gloomy. -- Yann Martel
May God protect me from gloomy saints. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy. -- Fanny Fern
One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments. -- Aldous Huxley
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast -- Friedrich von Schiller
In narrow and gloomy streets, keep your spirit high! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life. -- Friedrich Richter
What a day. It's 53 and gloomy - like President Obama. -- David Letterman
Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him. -- Daniel H. Hill
What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul. -- Victor Hugo
And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.... -- William Butler Yeats
We fear not the truth, even if it be gloomy, but its counterfeit. -- Berl Katznelson
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world. -- Bayard Taylor
The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves. -- Joseph Addison
Those who cannot illuminate even a gloomy street often talk about illuminating the world! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old. -- Berthold Auerbach
In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring... -- Andre Gide
In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life. -- Luciano Pavarotti
If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood â?? then Iâ??m satisfied. -- Astrid Lindgren
It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle? -- Julian Fellowes
When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing. -- Swami Vivekananda
The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison. -- Charles Spurgeon
That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave. -- John Dryden
Writer is a miner; he works in the gloomy places like a miner to get the precious material. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
You must rise above The gloomy clouds Covering the mountaintop Otherwise, how will you Ever see the brightness? -- Ryokan Taigu
Never yield to gloomy anticipation. Place your hope and confidence in God. He has no record of failure -- Lettie Cowman
When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy. -- Sun Tzu
The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing. -- Samuel Johnson
Philosophy became a gloomy science, in the labyrinth of which people vainly tried to find the exit, called The Truth. -- Edward Joseph Schwartz
The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind. -- Winston Churchill
Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality. -- Charles Phillips
It was odd to see her stepping out of that gloomy place, like a pearl coming out of an oyster. -- Sarah Waters
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good. -- C. S. Lewis
I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time... -- Ernest Hemingway
The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow ... -- Jean Ingelow
In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct. -- Dante Alighieri
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey." -- Karl Philipp Moritz
No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk. -- Terry Pratchett
I've been in a lot of castles, and they are pretty damp, cold and gloomy. However, I love Windsor Castle in England. -- Tracie Peterson
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
To man, that was in th' evening made, Stars gave the first delight; Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of light. -- Edmund Waller
Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see. -- Charles Caleb Colton
When thunderstorms roll in, you make a choice to either succumb with tears to the gloomy downpour, or smile and look for rainbows. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Sometimes a gloomy street is all a sad person needs! A magical relief may arise from the meeting of the two sad things! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. -- Simone Weil
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
It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man. -- Max Lerner
The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise. -- Henry Ward Beecher
There's so much light in Broughty Ferry. I think the humour in Glasgow is darker, because it's much more gloomy, there's a perpetual misery there. -- Brian Cox
All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train. -- Terry Pratchett
If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library. -- Mason Cooley
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
[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time... -- Washington Irving
(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it, ... That's when I first started thinking about the typical view of reality. -- Thomas Cahill
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
Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged. -- Charles Dickens
When she had failed once or twice to respond to some conversational gambit or other, Bond also relapsed into silence and occupied himself with his own gloomy thoughts. -- Ian Fleming
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
As an actor I've played a lot of gloomy, romantic leads and even though I might not want to recognize it, I actually really have a sense of humor. -- Louis Garrel
If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have a complete set of Schopenhauer at home. -- Ned Beauman
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
Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide. -- Edward Young
It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else. -- Jane Austen
Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies, And views of gaiety and gladness rise. -- George Crabbe
People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way. -- Billy Corgan
Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy. -- Roald Dahl
I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless. -- John Newton
Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And shed their substance on the floating air. -- George Crabbe
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
Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris. -- Jon Meacham
a great reason why a gloomy history may repeat itself is that we may have neglected what history did. When we neglect what history did, history visits us in the same cloth -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation -- Bertrand Russell
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
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

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