What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time. — David Guterson 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
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
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Darkness lingered in those blue eyes, like ghosts haunted him despite only the two of them standing in this cabin.” — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
The summer Night comes brooding down on Earth, As Love comes brooding down on human hearts, With bliss that hath no utterance… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Many things have been written, including by me, linking humor and pain. Mostly, in my case, the humor part keeps me sane.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
People are incredibly literal sometimes in how they view you. You have dark hair and pale skin? You must be brooding. The… — Anna Paquin 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
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
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
Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or,… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
“Now, brooder is an interesting word. People who worry a lot in silence are known as brooders. But then again so is… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
I want you to sense the Holy Spirit brooding over you. Is this too good to be true? You betcha, it's the… — Graham Cooke Copy Share Image
If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love… — Carl Friedrich von Rumohr Copy Share Image
Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog. — Edward Noyes Westcott Copy Share Image
If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I never was strutting through the hallways like, "Yeah, I'm a singer/songwriter." That's never a cool thing to do - to be… — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty upbeat person. I think I sometimes get cast as these brooding types because I bring light and joy, which… — Jake Epstein Copy Share Image
People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
I have always played the intense, brooding characters but I am not like that in real life. — Nikitin Dheer 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
Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch,… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
But how ridiculous that I should bereft simply because I couldn’t spend hours in my world of make-believe! Wasn’t the reality of… — Liza Dalby Copy Share Image
The gay bunting erects his white crest, and gives utterance to the joy he feels in the presence of his brooding mate;… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
“Great flocks of raindrops swelled and folded, and fell upon her like insects to a feast. She hadn’t thought to bring a… — J.R. Tompkins Copy Share Image
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“Her gaze on Vane, Patience wished she could see his eyes. His expression was unreadable. Shoulders propped against the stone arch, arms… — Stephanie Laurens Copy Share Image
The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
