Quotes About Glooms

#1. It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself

Nick Hornby

#2. No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array,
But winter lingering chills the lap of May;
No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast,
But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.

Oliver Goldsmith

#3. The breath of springtime at this twilight hour
Comes through the gathering glooms,
And bears the stolen sweets of many a flower
Into my silent rooms.

William C. Bryant

#4. O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.

James Whitcomb Riley

#5. But it is always a question whether I wish to avoid these glooms. These weeks give one a plunge into deep waters. One goes down into the well & nothing protects one from the assault of truth.

Virginia Woolf

#6. Sombre and rich, the skies;
Great glooms, and starry plains.
Gently the night wind sighs;
Else a vast silence reigns.

Lionel Johnson

#7. The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the worry, the many diminishments. But surely it is then that a person's character shines or glooms.

Mary Oliver

#8. This was what real grief felt like - she had never truly felt it before. All the times she had been sad, all the times she had wept in her life, all the glooms and melancholies were merely moods, mere passing whims. Grief was a different thing altogether.

Dan Chaon

#9. Everyone goes out of life just as if he had but lately entered.

Seneca.

#10. In the boundless ocean of mind innumerable currents and tides shift with the shifting emotion of each several soul.

F.W.H. Myers

#11. Dashes and disappointments are not canonical Scripture.

Samuel Rutherford

#12. You only change what you understand. What you do not understand and are not aware of, you repress. You dont change. But when you understand it, it changes.

Anthony De Mello

#13. The misty morning crawleth grey from dusk to the reluctant day.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#14. Don't be too concerned about the wingnut ears. Anxiety produces the wrong pheromones. Roll with the punches. Make time for life around your deep abiding need to write. Say Yes more, but not always. Say No enough that you have a life.

Nick Earls

#15. Health foods make promises that only the Second Coming could fulfill.

Mason Cooley

#16. Okay, Troy ... you're right. I'll take care of your baby for you ... cause ... like you say ... she's innocent ... and you can't visit the sins of the father upon the child. A motherless child has got a hard time. From right now ... this child got a mother. But you a womanless man.

August Wilson