...brooding only feeds the strange pleasure of melancholy...

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