GRUBELEIEN: German word for a not entirely unpleasant form…

Do not look down, brooding over your weakness! Do not look back upon your past, strewn with failure! Look up to the living Christ!

— F.B. Meyer

Rest you well, beloved Jesus, Caesar’s Lord and Israel’s King, In the brooding of the Spirit, in the darkness of the spring

— N. T. Wright

People are incredibly literal sometimes in how they view you. You have dark hair and pale skin? You must be brooding. The second you…

— Anna Paquin

You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not…

— Martin Buber

The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.

— Irving Stone

This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a…

— E. M. Forster

Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

— Rohinton Mistry

The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors.

— Yosa Buson

“Darkness lingered in those blue eyes, like ghosts haunted him despite only the two of them standing in this cabin.”

— Katherine McIntyre

I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes.

— Bryan Callen

Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not…

— Max Weber

Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the…

— Joseph Conrad

We are all prone to brood on the evil done us. That brooding becomes as a gnawing and destructive canker. Is there a virtue…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Great flocks of raindrops swelled and folded, and fell upon her like insects to a feast. She hadn’t thought to bring a raincoat; she…

— J.R. Tompkins

I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.

— Gabriel Byrne