Brood Quotes

83 Brood quotes by 73 unique authors

In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in… — Adolf Hitler
Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions. Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting’s sake -- much as we relive, brood, and smoulder… — Elizabeth Bowen
In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled… — Barbara Kingsolver
A person can't brood over one mistake, or waste time feeling sorry for himself, or take on any sort of persecution complex. Today I realize… — Bart Starr
So it is with life. Those thorns, the prickly problems of life, cause us to strive to rise above them and then, as we do,… — James Michael
God has so ordered, that in pressing on in duty we shall find the truest, richest comfort for ourselves. Sitting down to brood over our… — Lettie Cowman
The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favourite phantom;… — William C. Bryant
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed. — B.K.S. Iyengar
One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business;… — Charlotte Bronte
The worst thing you can do is to sit and brood and feel sorry for yourself. Nor should you feel wrong about doing this, since… — Frederick Lenz
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that… — Richard Ford
He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood… — Mahatma Gandhi
I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains… — Jeanette Winterson
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot
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

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