As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such. Alain de Botton
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.Rabindranath Tagore
It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century. Martin Amis
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. Margaret Atwood