Brooding Quotes

101 quotes by 95 authors

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and… — James Cameron
Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy… — Virginia Woolf
I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences… — Jean Giraudoux
The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead — Charles Dickens
In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time… — George Washington Carver
The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors. — Yosa Buson
Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair. — Charlie Pierce
Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, you change everything into bitterness by constantly brooding over everything.… — Jane Frances de Chantal
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils. — Dorothy Uhnak
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a plot.… — E. M. Forster
When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees… — Walter de La Mare
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant… — Harry Reasoner
North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east… — Shelby Foote
A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog. — Edward Noyes Westcott
Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder — Muhammad Ali
Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love foods which stimulate… — Carl Friedrich von Rumohr
Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. — Charles Evans Hughes
Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is… — Grantland Rice
The body is not important. It is made of dust; it is made of ashes. It is food for the worms. The winds and the… — Rudolfo Anaya

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