Quotes about Gloom
Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment.
— Joseph Addison
Such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb.
— Herman Melville
even the spring flowers and the grass had a dull shiver in them under the afternoon clouds that hid the sun fitfully;
— George Eliot
Where glowing embers through the room teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth.
— John Milton
Dark with excessive bright.
— John Milton
Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
— Emily Bronte
They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and gray under the stars.
— Edith Wharton
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
But at the bottom of all the gloom, there is a sense that we are responsible for each other -- if not for each other's happiness. There is empathy, admiration, respect for the other's intelligence and honesty.
— Erica Jong
Hallo, Eeyore." "Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays," said Eeyore gloomily. Before Pooh could say: 'Why Thursdays?' Christopher Robin began to explain the sad story of Eeyore's lost house.
— AA Milne
Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.
— Charles Dickens