Top 297 Gloom Quotes & Sayings

The '80s have been so much doom and gloom. We've become very pessimistic.

I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.

An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.

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.

Like cats' eyes gleaming in the gloom, the precious diamonds rest.

A joke a day keeps the gloom away!

Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

Being an environmentalist isn't all about doom and gloom.

Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

When there's doom and gloom, don't forget there's darkness before dawn.

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.

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.

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?

Many a maiden, With white feet glancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom.

Growing up in Stockton wasn't all doom and gloom.

Do not allow darkness and gloom to enter into your hearts. I want to give you a rule by which you may know that the spirit which you have is the right spirit. The Spirit of God produces cheerfulness, joy, light and good feelings. Whenever you feel gloomy and despondent and are downcast, unless it be for your sins, you may know it is not the Spirit of God which you have. Fight against it and drive it out of your heart. The Spirit of God is a spirit of hope; it is not a spirit of gloom.

I am not a 'doom and gloom' guy.

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts.

Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is not a religion of mourning and gloom.

the little street Into its gloom retires, secluded and shy.

Cincinnati beats you up for three days, and all of a sudden it's doom and gloom. I cannot live my life that way.

The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard

Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person.

It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.

You want me to be all doom and gloom, or just shut up?

The gloom of Covid-19 has cast a shadow on the charm of Diwali.

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.

I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'

It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.

I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope.

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.

Look!" said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, "Someone who cares!

Through thickest gloom look back, immortal shade, On that confusion which thy death has made.

I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost hear Percy Gloom's meek, docile little voice. Her writing is so full of wit and charm that we, like the title character, walk dutifully to the edge and fall in. And like Percy, we are rewarded equally with night terrors and secret treasures.

There is no single formula for good sentence. An invisible integument that gives the sentence wholeness and musicality, sometimes. But other times, the formula is almost purely one of context. And yet other times, of sheer precision of meaning. This is a good sentence: "Just as he was settling into the warm mud of alcoholic gloom, Shrike caught his arm." "Warm mud of alcoholic gloom" is exact and right and accurate.

Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by

Life is never a bed of roses, but it's not all doom and gloom either.

(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)

The advent of truth, like the dawn of day, agitates the elements, while it disperses the gloom.

Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.

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.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.

This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.

What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?

In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom.

And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.

Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.