To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
End is a gloomy word.
Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.
Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life.
Don't be gloomy. Even if you are not happy, put a smile on your face. [Life is about] joy,. . . something to be happy and excited about.
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk know this and fight very hard, but after a few years life gets easier for them and they think they've become completely human when they've only stopped trying. I stopped trying, but my life was so full of strenuous routines that I wouldn't have noticed had it been not for my disease. My whole professional life was a diseased and grandiose attack on my humanity. It is an achievement to know that I am simply a wounded and dying man. Who can be more regal than a dying man?
One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.
I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.
It will be my birthday on Tuesday. Last year, I reached the painful conclusion that there wasn't enough time left to read every book ever written. This year, my gloomy realisation is even more painful - I will not be able to correct everyone's mistakes before I depart.
The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.
Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul. Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
As an actor I've played a lot of gloomy, romantic leads and even though I might not want to recognize it, I actually really have a sense of humor.
