#gloom

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes. ↗

— Jean Racine

#covering #even #eyes #gloomy #hell

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#ask #camera #comes #gloomy #me

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. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#been #completely #dark #fascinated #gloomy

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#bodily #body #decay #gloomy #human

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. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#been #cheap #despair #dream #gloom

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave. ↗

— Francis Scott Key

#could #flight #footsteps #foul #gloom

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#dust #forgets #gloom #god #out

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook. ↗

— James Keller

#carries #confidence #courage #depends #depression

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

— Alain de Botton

#enjoyment #gloom #life #life

When does the dust of life seems to be a golden haze? When the whole gloomy day is manipulated by the ray of light through a lamp, ignited by a person with a surprise of love beneath an act of compassion. ↗

— Manish Kathuria

#gloom #inspiration #lamp #light #inspirational