Quotes with gloom

  • 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.
  • Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
  • Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

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  • Ezra Pound 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.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • William Wordsworth Lost in a gloom of uninspired research.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Joseph Addison Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Bram Stoker And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Barry Cornwall Enter upon thy paths, O year! Thy paths, which all who breathe must tread, Which lead the Living to the Dead, I enter; for it is my doom To tread thy labyrinthine gloom; To note who round me watch and wait; To love a few; perhaps to hate; And do all duties of my fate.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Buffalo Bill My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
    The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography (1978 edition), U of Nebraska Press
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Herodotus Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • Leigh Hunt Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck 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.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Arnold Bennett The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Ulysses S. Grant 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.
    Ulysses S. Grant
    American Army general (1822 - 1885)
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  • Samuel Johnson When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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