(11 quotes found)
“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
““When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you find that more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.””
Carrie P. Snow
“Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.”
Thomas Jefferson
“(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
“It's a very gloomy picture. We can reasonably expect a very weak economic picture for the first and second quarter.”
Tomoko Fujii
“Much more happiness is to be found in the world than gloomy eyes discover.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.”
Friedrich von Schiller
“He was not especially gloomy about long-term economic prospects,”
John Lonski
“There's something about the story that just calls to me. It's dark and gloomy and absurd, but at the same time I was kind of moved by it.”
Elizabeth Searle
“Do not read anything which fills your mind with gloomy images of want and suffering.”
Contributed by: Maya Elhalal
Wallace D. Wattles