Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort before I go, never to return, to the land of gloom... and deep darkness, the land of gloom and chaos, where light is like darkness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothi...ng lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire,... Show'd me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire. Even now their whispers pierce the gloom: What dost thou in this living tomb?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is every reason to rejoice with those self-styled prophets of commercial disaster, those harbingers of gloom, Over the ...imminent lateness of the denouement that, advancing slowly, never arrives, At the same time keeping the door open to a tongue-in-cheek attitude on the part of the perpetrators....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For later in the vast gloom of cities, only there you learn How the ideas were good only because they had to die,... Leaving you alone and skinless, a drawing by Vesalius.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to cou...ntry air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Squats on a toad-stool under a tree A bodiless childfull of life in the gloom,... Crying with frog voice, "What shall I be? Poor unborn ghost, for my mother killed me Scarcely alive in her wicked womb.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The traveller, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he ask...s himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism...; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »