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May God protect me from gloomy saints.

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

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

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

For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that, for me, heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.