Words matter. These are the best Gloomy Quotes from famous people such as Simon Schama, Terry Zwigoff, Karl Philipp Moritz, Grace Paley, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The most gloomy prognosis about Jewish life is that it will disappear between the two extremes of ultra-Orthodoxy on the one hand and total assimilation on the other. But those are very exaggerated scenarios.
Chicago always hit me as such a gloomy place – I just remember all the snow getting dirty as soon as it would fall, all the decaying brown brick buildings around where we lived, all this soot all over the place.
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
I get a bit gloomy when it’s gloomy.
I interned for the Knicks for one year doing community relations, but I absolutely hated it. It was a desk job, and the team was not good at all, and I didn’t realize how much that correlated to the office. It was just gray, gloomy days.
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.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
All the world loves a young emerging artist, and sometimes it seems that all the world wants to be one – on a bad, gloomy planet, to be colourful and creative seems so promising.
My wife loves to get all dressed up and go out, and I’m this gloomy Virgo. It works because of the mutual recognition that we are two democratic narcissists. She does what she has to do, and I do what I have to do. We respect that.
I think I’m less gloomy than I used to be – I’ve got a very supportive other half.
Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the Lord. Be positive.
People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.
I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
I’ve had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I’m a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it’s a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.
You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
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.
Numerous have been the manifestations of God’s providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had ‘our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.’ We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.
New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.
In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.
I’m quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious.
In ’74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.
One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have been a few who have groaned their way through to a competence, but in proportion to that overwhelming number of souls who carry cheer through life, they are as nothing – mere drops in the bucket.
The rainy season in Vermont is not long, but it definitely gets gloomy.
For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself that by setting one foot in front of the other, I will eventually make my way out of the desert.
People think we’re always dark and gloomy, and we’re not.
Unless you’re living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there’s no point in being gloomy. We’ve spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don’t really need. We’ve stopped using our imaginations.
Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.
I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the ’70s.
I’ve been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends.
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
I have been a huge fan of ABRA ever since I discovered her in 2016. I love her gloomy fresh universe and her youthful unique vocals. Also I find her lyrics and visual output super exciting.
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.
I don’t think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.
There’s no denying that cancer is a gloomy subject. We repeat positive phrases to ourselves as a sort of mantra. And while positive thinking alone can’t cure cancer, attitude is critical to getting through the process and growing as a person.
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.
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
Being in smoggy Delhi was a gloomy feeling.
The hallway of every man’s life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.
Some people think a boxer is a gloomy guy with this heavy brow who always has to be serious. But why can’t you laugh a bit, make a joke?
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
