Top Gloom Quotes

One's suffering, one's melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eye...

Fantasy, an unflagging optimism is necessary for a writer at all stages of this rough game. A kind of madness is therefore necessary, when there is every logical reason for a state of depression and d...

Gloom Definition

(n.) Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.

(n.) A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.

(n.) Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.

(n.) In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.

(v. i.) To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

(v. i.) To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.

(v. t.) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.

(v. t.) To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus rem...

The world is a palace without bedsheets

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim a...

Gloom and anguish is the description of the lives of those who live in darkness

The world has its own ways of treating us like what we will never be, but want to be. It relinquishes its grip on our souls while lulling us with the songs of freedom and conquest of beauty. It magnif...

The heart is delighted by the first,The other makes the mind go numb;Happiness and gloom like twins,Holding the hands together come!

Meanwhile the sunsets are mad orange fools raging in the gloom....

Gloom and darkness are temporary. Joy comes in the morning.

Distress is fearful gloom.

While I was able to rise and function almost normally during the earlier part of the day, I began to sense the onset of the symptoms at midafternoon or a little later- -gloom crowding in on me, a sens...

The Sun can be your greatest gloom, or your greatest comforter, depending on how you view its shine.

Where others saw gloom, I saw light or lit a candle.

The former time is the time of gloom and darkness, but the later time is a time of the redemption and the mercy of God