London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

- Bayard Taylor

I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.

- Catherine Zeta-Jones

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

- Friedrich Schiller

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

- Gavin Rossdale

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

- Grace Paley

New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.

- Herb Caen

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

- Karl Philipp Moritz

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

- Kenneth Branagh

All the world loves a young emerging artist, and sometimes it seems that all the world wants to be one - on a bad, gloomy planet, to be colourful and creative seems so promising.

- Michael Leunig

In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.

- Mikhail Baryshnikov

I think I'm less gloomy than I used to be - I've got a very supportive other half.

- Martin Freeman

I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s.

- Peter O'Toole

I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends.

- Richard K. Morgan

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

- Saint Teresa of Avila

The most gloomy prognosis about Jewish life is that it will disappear between the two extremes of ultra-Orthodoxy on the one hand and total assimilation on the other. But those are very exaggerated scenarios.

- Simon Schama

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

- Thomas Jefferson