Brooding Quotes

101 quotes by 95 authors

I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk. — Loren Eiseley
Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil. — David Sarnoff
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. — James Ellroy
Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited… — Amy Bloom
But how ridiculous that I should bereft simply because I couldnâ€™t spend hours in my world of make-believe! Wasnâ€™t the reality of my life interesting… — Liza Dalby
It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every… — Henry Ward Beecher
The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. — Swami Vivekananda
Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness. — Maj Sjowall
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time. — David Guterson
In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness. — Baden Powell de Aquino
You can not make yourself whole again by brooding one hundred percent of the time on the darkness of the world. We are the light… — Ivan van Sertima
I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. — Gabriel Byrne
Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place… — Joseph Conrad
Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused… — Dale Carnegie
All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course today every rascal… — Albert Einstein
If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time. — Joe Rogan
Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only determine the worth. — Immanuel Hermann Fichte
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
Not only do we cheat ourselves and those around us if we are only glum or always wary when it comes time to respond to… — Martin E. Marty
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious.… — Arthur Goldberg

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