Gloomy Quotes

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

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.

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

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.

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

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

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

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.

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.

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.