No man can ever repay the brooding mother love to which he his life. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“Open your eyes, boy. Your eyes. Open your eyes and no more turn aside and brood.” — Will Christopher Baer Copy Share Image
Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit. — Rohinton Mistry 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
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music.… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow. — James Larkin Copy Share Image
The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude. — Krist Novoselic Copy Share Image
I seem to be attracted to the quiet, brooding type. But not too brooding. Too brooding can be narcissistic. Or psychotic. — Kelli Garner 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
If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time. — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
Not only do we cheat ourselves and those around us if we are only glum or always wary when it comes time… — Martin E. Marty 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
I felt the strange brooding lonely presence of Nature fostering a new race, a new age, and as part of it, a… — Lawren Harris 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
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
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
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
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
This element of surprise or mystery — the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called — is of great importance… — E. M. Forster 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
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
For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“The movies make the brooding guy the hero – the guy with problems the guy who carries a gun, the gun with… — E. Lockhart 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
Contact lenses make me miserable, as soon as I put them in. That's what creates the pouting and brooding character. — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time. — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
Do not look down, brooding over your weakness! Do not look back upon your past, strewn with failure! Look up to the… — F.B. Meyer 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
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
I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
