#gloom

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

#adversity #always #better #cherish #dark

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

— Shirley Henderson

#gloom #humour #i #indulgence #laugh

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

#cheerfulness #clouds #daylight #fills #flash

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#brightly #cheer #coloured #diet #discarded

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#full #ghosts #gloom #graces #haunted

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

#contagious #duty #first #gladness #gloom

A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#day #dream #dreary #gloom #happy