GLOOM in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 The figure passed me quickly, and I lost it in the gloom.
2 As I spoke, a dark gloom spread over my listener's countenance.
3 If you feel thus, we shall assuredly be happy, however present events may cast a gloom over us.
4 But it is this gloom which appears to have taken so strong a hold of your mind that I wish to dissipate.
5 I was alone; none were near me to dissipate the gloom and relieve me from the sickening oppression of the most terrible reveries.
6 I was overcome by gloom and misery and often reflected I had better seek death than desire to remain in a world which to me was replete with wretchedness.
7 I felt also sentiments of joy and affection revive in my bosom; my gloom disappeared, and in a short time I became as cheerful as before I was attacked by the fatal passion.
8 I learned from Werter's imaginations despondency and gloom, but Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes of past ages.
9 I endeavoured to crush these fears and to fortify myself for the trial which in a few months I resolved to undergo; and sometimes I allowed my thoughts, unchecked by reason, to ramble in the fields of Paradise, and dared to fancy amiable and lovely creatures sympathizing with my feelings and cheering my gloom; their angelic countenances breathed smiles of consolation.