Top 36 Glum Quotes
#1. After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of 'spirit fingers' to chase our cares and woes into somebody else's backyard.
James Wolcott
#2. A sheepish smile forms on his face. "Sorry. Didn't see you there."
Unwrapping my sub, I reply, "No shit, Sherlock. Why so glum? Porn not loading quick enough?
Belle Aurora
#3. Life would be awfully grim and glum if I couldn't laugh at myself.
Liesl Shurtliff
#4. All right, why the glum face now? I get that you messed up, but you need to pick yourself up and move on.
Debbie Macomber
#5. The greatness of America is that it produces exuberant geniuses like Louis Armstrong and Fred Astaire and Leonard Bernstein. We are meant to be a jazzy people who talk big and jump on the table and dance; we aren't supposed to be dopey and glum and brood over old injuries.
Garrison Keillor
#6. Obama fans become more and more glum that he keeps flubbing the very role he was expected to be so good at: Therapist to the nation. The Great Comforter.
Tina Brown
#7. She smiled for the first time, and he almost had to look away, as if something that nice didn't belong in such a glum and gray place, as if he had no right to look at her expression.
James Dashner
#9. 'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.
Carolyn See
#10. If there's a remedy when trouble strikes, What reason is there for dejection? And if there is no help for it, What use is there in being glum?
Santideva
#11. ...it was easy to forget that Washington was just another glum city of government, like Albany or Sacramento, legislators and lobbyists and bureaucrats and their clerks working and reworking the sodden language of government in order to distribute the spoils.
Ward Just
#12. So it was done to the general contentment; and if Gruff and Glum didn't in the course of the afternoon splice the main brace, it was not for want of the means of inflicting that outrage on the feelings of the Infant Bands of Hope.
Charles Dickens
#13. Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has to look and sound glum. And France's leader, Francois Hollande, seems determined to drive every successful businessman out of the country.
Paul Johnson
#14. Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.
Gillian Flynn
#15. Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.
James Nicoll
#16. It is the last place heading south before the landscape gets terminally dusty, glum and thinly settled, so it has an oasis or frontier atmosphere and a sense that the cappuccinos are a bit hard-won.
Simon Winder
#17. One day in the afternoon of the world, glum death will come and sit in you, and when you get up to walk, you will be as glum as death, but if you're lucky, this will only make the fun better and the love greater.
William, Saroyan
#18. As Daffy once said, the best place to hide a glum countenance is onstage at the opera.
Alan Bradley
#19. Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.
Ellis Peters
#20. Your maman was in my room last night."
"And I was not." His tone was glum.
Sharon Cameron
#21. Women shouldn't be in combat," said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. "Neither should men, in my opinion.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#22. Too slow, the wagons of years,
The oxen of days
too glum.
Our god is the god of speed,
Our heart
our battle-drum.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
#23. Like Dolores and Frank might quit being little glum reavers out to wreck their world.
Charles Frazier
#24. I can have fairly crippling self-criticism. It doesn't really put me in a vulnerable state, I just get glum and intolerable, but it certainly is a vulnerability.
Damian Kulash
#25. He's a writer," she said, as though this explained everything. "He's disappeared before?" "He's emotional," she said, her expression glum. "He's always going off on one, but it's been ten days and I know he's really upset but I need him home now.
Robert Galbraith
#26. Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it's been sworn in! ... Let's think up something. What would you like? Forfeits, tug of war, catch, dancing, fireworks?
Anton Chekhov
#27. Pella felt relieved to sit across from someone who was willing to act so unreservedly glum in her presence, as if she weren't there. David never did that
David's eyes were always right on her, probing, admiring, assessing, enjoying. That was what he called love.
Chad Harbach
#28. If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.
Siegfried Sassoon
#29. Milligan! Come and tell us why you're so dreadfully glum!" ~ Constance, The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart
#30. Do not get glum when you are no longer understood, little book. Do not curse your fate. Do not reach up from readers' laps and punch the readers' noses.
Rejoice, little book!
For on that day, we will be free
Joanna Russ
#31. I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic
Billy Corgan
#32. You could go outside today and have a glum face, or you could put a smile on your face and go out into the world, even though you don't feel like it - that's selfless giving!
Frederick Lenz
#33. I run because if I didn't, I'd be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. I run ... to savor the trip along the way. Life becomes a little more vibrant, a little more intense. I like that.
Dean Karnazes
#34. But how glum he looks now." She threw some daisies at him. Then, after a pause, she added mockingly: "It's hunger, my dear. Good Lord, how dependent men are on food!
John Dos Passos
#35. Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#36. In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.
M.F.K. Fisher
