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«Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.»

Author: Jean Paul Richter (Novelist) | About: Music | Keywords: gloomiest, gloomy, moonlight

«Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.»

Author: Love Actually | Keywords: all-around, All messages, arrivals, board, boyfriends, daughters, dignified, dignifies, dignify, fathers, Fathers and Sons, gate, girlfriends, gloomiest, gloomy, greed, Heathrow, husbands, make out, messages, mothers, Mothers And Daughters, particularly, phone, phone call, Planes, revenge, sneaky, sons, starting, the Airport, The Arrival, The State of the World, The World I, towers, twin, Twin Towers, wives

«Do not entertain bad thoughts and do bad deeds. Life is holy and sacred. Go through it with joy and happiness. Do not carry gloomy, unhappy faces. Happiness is union with God. This period of your life is sacred. If you can not derive happiness and live in Bliss at this age, can you be blissful when you grow old? Now, you have only two legs to carry; you can jump about freely. But when you marry and rear up a family, you will move like a caterpillar with many legs!»

Author: Atharva Veda | Keywords: caterpillars, faces, gloomiest, legs, rears

«Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason /you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.»

Author: Desiderius Erasmus (Editor, Humanist, Priest) | Keywords: bestowed, confined, cramp, cramped, cramping, cramps, far left, gloomiest, gloomy, grim, Jupiter, moreover, ration, rationed, rationing, rations, reckon, The Passions, twenty-four

«Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.»

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | Keywords: conclusions, damp, damps, directed, fungi, fungus, gardener, gardeners, gaze, gloomiest, gloomy, gray, grow up, morose, plants, soil, soils, The Thinker, thinker, woe

«It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.»

Author: St. Francis of Assisi | About: God | Keywords: chilled, chilling, chills, fitting, fittings, gloomiest, gloomy

«Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.»

Author: Bertrand Russell (Logician, Philosopher) | About: Italy | Keywords: all together, First Love, gloomiest, Italy, Spring and, suffice

«Much more happiness is to be found in the world than gloomy eyes discover.»

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | Keywords: discover, eyes, Eyes of the World, Eye of the World, found, gloomiest, gloomy

«I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild of life, without any direction, or fixed point of view: a gloomy gazer on the world to which I have little relation»

Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Loneliness | Keywords: breaking off, breaking point, break off, fixed, fixed point, Gazer, gloomiest, gloomy, point of view, solitary, The Wild, wanderer, wanderers

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

Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | About: Ageing, Body, Mind | Keywords: abhorrent, bodily, gloomiest, gloomy, prospect

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