Brood Quotes

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In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone… — Heinrich Heine
No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope… — John Keats
Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of man… — John Muir
I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a beard, to wear… — Stephen Colbert
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every… — Washington Irving
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of… — John Keats
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them… — Sivananda
Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and… — Aldous Huxley
For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the… — Hermann Hesse
We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire. — George Eliot
...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesnâ€™t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here… — Barbara Kingsolver
Kallor said: 'I walked this land when the T'lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand strong. I have spread the… — Steven Erikson
Ada girl, adored girl, [...] I'm a radiant void. I'm convalescing after a long and dreadful illness. You cried over my unseemly scar, but now… — Vladimir Nabokov
Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of… — Oscar Wilde
When there's something you can't understand no matter how much you think about it, you can't let yourself brood over it forever. ~Allen Walker — Katsura Hoshino
We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a… — Clive Barker
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is… — Alan Lightman
Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the… — John Steinbeck
We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom. — Hunter S. Thompson
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to… — Anne Lamott

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