The universe is based on sullen entropy; It falls apart as it goes on — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person — Horace 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
I had kept opaque Down deeper than the canyons undersea The sullen spectrum of a buried lake Nobody saw; not seen even… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. — Saint Augustine 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
Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was a sullen kid who smoked cigarettes and wore black every day, and I went to a school that was lacrosse… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Winter is ruthless and sometimes sullen and murderous. The wild winter North has gulped ten thousand summers down nor left a froth… — William Alfred Quayle 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
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
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
Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time… — William Shakespeare 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
Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than… — Edward Young 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
Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The parent who loves his child dearly but asks for nothing in return might qualify as a saint, but he will not… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
from the complications of loving you i think there is no end or return. no answer, no coming out of it. which… — Mary Oliver 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
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
The human genome will not help us to understand the spiritual side of humankind, or to know who God is or what… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Soon will set in the fitful weather, with fierce gales and sullen skies and frosty air, and it will be time to… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
You know, I think I understand what you're like now. You're very beautiful and you think men are only interested in you… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
“The sudden and uncalled for coldness with which you treated me just before I left last night, both surprised and deeply hurt… — Charles Dickens 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, Patient… — T. S. Eliot 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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be. — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell. — Wilfred Owen 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
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
