The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
The disconnect lasted too long. I think people got the idea I was sullen and couldn't communicate, which wasn't true. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would… — William Cartwright Copy Share Image
Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When I am feeling depressed and anxious sullen all you have to do is take your clothes off and all is wiped… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
How do we know, then, when a code's been cracked?when we are right?when do we know if we have even received a… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in… — William Blake Copy Share Image
My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]?… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Jem was safe from her, and he would ride away with a song on his lips and a laugh at her expense,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The passion you forbade my lips to utter Will not be silenced. You must hear it in The sullen thunders when they… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns; The low'ring eye, the petulance, the frown, And sullen sadness, that o'ershade, distort, And… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will… — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow. Come, mourn with me… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Grieve not the Christ of God, who redeems us; and remember that we grieve Him most when we will not let Him… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
In classrooms full of students who range from brilliant to sullen disaffection, it's games - and often games alone - that I've… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
The universe is based on sullen entropy; It falls apart as it goes on — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person — Horace Copy Share Image
Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar. — John Milton Copy Share Image
No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He raised his staff. There was a roll of thunder. The sunlight was blotted out from the eastern windows; the whole hall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Discussing the possibilities of extraterrestrial life: I would love it even if they were short, sullen, grumpy and sexually obsessed. But there… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
Um," Doc said in a mild voice, "medically speaking, I'm not sure that was the most helpful thing for his condition." "But… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
![“What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might be a good idea to separate from a chronically carping spouse, but it is not so easy to abandon the whiny toddler, the colicky infant, or the sullen…” quote by Barbara Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/187/barbara-ehrenreich-1204_abandon_what-would-it-mean-in-practice-to-elimin_140275.jpg)
