Gloom Quotes

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair.

In any market, in any country, there are developers who make money. So I say all of this doom and gloom, but there will always be people who make money, because people always want homes.

Here's what I say: We will ignore the cult of doom and gloom and embrace the cause of zoom and boom. We will laugh at the stupidity of evil and hate, and summon the brilliance of praise and create. . . Life is crazily in love with us-wildly and innocently in love with us. The universe always gives us exactly what we need, exactly when we need it.

Man United, for all the doom and gloom, they're still the best club on the planet, they've got the best supporters and the best manager... United will always be United. To me, they are still the best and whatever disappointments they're having at the moment, don't worry, they'll bounce back. They always do.

For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.

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.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.

I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.

What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks.

Despite all the doom and gloom that constantly assaults our senses, there is a way for us to ransom our lives and reclaim our futures: it consists in turning away from the world to recognize what in life makes us truly happy. For each of us, what that is will be different. But once we obtain this inner knowledge, we will possess the ability to transform our outer world. "You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself," the pilot and writer Beryl Markham reminds us. We cannot let this continue to occur.

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom.

I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.