Top 267 Gloomy Quotes & Sayings

If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.

What a day. It's 53 and gloomy - like President Obama.

What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

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

One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.

I may find myself changing my notions about what I want to do right in the middle of a film. And on days when I'm feeling merry, I shoot merry scenes, and on gloomy days, I shoot gloomy ones.

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.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life.

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

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?

We fear not the truth, even if it be gloomy, but its counterfeit.

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

I think I'm less gloomy than I used to be - I've got a very supportive other half.

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.

And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

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.

End is a gloomy word.

Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, looks gloomy, has something of the church in it, looks as if it is only for people who are dead, or almost dead, who are gloomy, serious, have long faces, who have lost festivity, fun, playfulness, celebration.... A really meditative person is playful: life is fun for him.... He enjoys it tremendously. He is not serious. He is relaxed.

The gloomy shade of death.

I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.

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

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

Being in smoggy Delhi was a gloomy feeling.

In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.

I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s.

The rainy season in Vermont is not long, but it definitely gets gloomy.

When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.

Life is not like Gloomy Sunday, with a second ending when the people are disturbed.

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

No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

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

That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.

[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.

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation.

On the way I stood a moment looking out across the marshes with tall cattails, a patch of water, more marsh, then the woods with a few birch trees shining white at the edge on beyond. In the darkness it all looked just like I felt. Wet and swampy and gloomy, very gloomy. In the morning I painted it. My memory of it is that it was probably my best painting that summer.

When winter stern, his gloomy front uprears, A sable void the barren earth appears; The meads no more their former verdure boast, Fast-bound their streams, and all their beauty lost; The herds, the flocks, in icy garments mourn, and wildly murmur for the Spring's return; From snow-topp'd hills the whirlwinds keenly blow, Howl through the woods, and pierce the vales below, Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies.

In narrow and gloomy streets, keep your spirit high!

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

Never yield to gloomy anticipation. Place your hope and confidence in God. He has no record of failure

People think we're always dark and gloomy, and we're not.

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

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

I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious.

New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.

I think it's important not to get carried away when you are successful - and not to let yourself feel gloomy when times are bad.

On staring out at a gloomy day: First you must realize that it is the day that is gloomy, not you. If you want to be gloomy, too, that's all right, but it's not mandatory.

Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

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.