Words matter. These are the best Gloom Quotes from famous people such as Gordon B. Hinckley, Orson Welles, Maurice Maeterlinck, Said Sayrafiezadeh, Paul Hollywood, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
I’m not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I’m no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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.
We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.
In recent years, I’ve begun the year by driving across France to the Alps, abandoning the January gloom for Alpine winter sun, even if the ski-goggles do give you panda marks when you get a tan. As a child, I was always a bit of a billygoat when I’d go camping with my mates in North Wales, around Snowdonia.
I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn’t just, ‘This person is incarcerated unjustly.’ It’s also, ‘This person was just released.’ Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don’t inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.
I spend a fair chunk of time in Los Angeles, and after about ten days of warmth and unbroken clear skies, you start to yearn for a bit of good old British gloom and rain!
I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it’s a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.
The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
The dialogue around climate change can often become mired in gloom and doom, which is understandable given the topic.
My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
I am in the world feeling my way to light ‘amid the encircling gloom.’
A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
I think you know what you’re up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions – you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.
When there’s doom and gloom, don’t forget there’s darkness before dawn.
Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person.
I am not a ‘doom and gloom’ guy.
Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom – all, which makes death a hideous show.
Being an environmentalist isn’t all about doom and gloom.
There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says ‘no,’ then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.
A lot of people in the music business are a bit doom and gloom, People say it’s probably easier to write sad songs than it is to write happy ones, so that’s maybe why. I just wanted to be a bit positive about things rather than always being negative.
Life is never a bed of roses, but it’s not all doom and gloom either.
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.
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.
It’s becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.
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.
One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.
