No man can ever repay the brooding mother love to which he his life. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles. — Kelly Macdonald Copy Share Image
The guys who spend their time brooding in their younger years either lighten up or go away. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time. — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
“GRUBELEIEN: German word for a not entirely unpleasant form of brooding; a sort of inward directed schadenfreude, i.e., perverse delight in one's… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
The Johnny Depp generation has this kind of brooding, weighty, introspective quality, very James Deanish. Which is nice, great for a lot… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
“I’ve known a few brooding warrior-types in my day, but I think you might be the broodiest of them all.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I can express the brooding part of myself on-screen. It's kind of fun to get to do the bratty things I really… — Morgan Saylor Copy Share Image
Actually I want to scare away method actors because it's a pain. It's like, 'Come on, what are you doing? It's not… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
For 'Fright Night,' we really want to convey the fun attitude of the movie and show the intensity of Colin Farrell as… — Stacey Snider Copy Share Image
In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
So when the great word "Mother!" rang once more, I saw at last its meaning and its place; Not the blind passion… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The empire of Saturnus is gone by; Lord of the secret birth of things is he; Within the lap of earth, and… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Insomniac is an impassioned work-an inspired amalgam of academic and first-hand research, memoir, analysis, and the kind of obsessive brooding we associate… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Meditation upon death does not teach one how to die; it does not make the departure more easy, but ease is not… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories.… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
We are all prone to brood on the evil done us. That brooding becomes as a gnawing and destructive canker. Is there… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Don't brood; that way madness lies. Don't hesitate, if you catch yourself brooding, to 'take a day off' in the best way… — Blanche Ebbutt Copy Share Image
Nefarious. This is what we get when we hire a Yale boy.” “You missed sacrosanct earlier. And taciturn and glowering,” Jack said.… — Julie James Copy Share Image
The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns. — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
I have important business to get to. I plan to sulk all afternoon, followed, perhaps, by an evening of Byronic brooding and… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness. — Maj Sjowall Copy Share Image
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or… — Grantland Rice Copy Share Image
I'm not ashamed of being a bubbly, funny person. I think that's as valid as being the dark, brooding, tortured Oscar-nominated one. — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Optimism…is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair. — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time. — David Guterson Copy Share Image
