Brooding Quotes

101 quotes by 95 authors

Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize… — Bruce Catton
It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg. — Navjot Singh Sidhu
Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not come… — Max Weber
There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it… — David Lehman
It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me. — David Guterson
What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles. — Kelly Macdonald
I seem to be attracted to the quiet, brooding type. But not too brooding. Too brooding can be narcissistic. Or psychotic. — Kelli Garner
The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance… — Aberjhani
Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs. — George Eliot
So when the great word "Mother!" rang once more, I saw at last its meaning and its place; Not the blind passion of the brooding… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I felt the strange brooding lonely presence of Nature fostering a new race, a new age, and as part of it, a new expression in… — Lawren Harris
Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the… — William Hazlitt
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past. — Indira Gandhi
The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest. — Thomas Fuller
The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time. — Vin Diesel
The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn't have. — Will Ferrell
I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are… — Nathan Fillion
People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it. — Lenny Kravitz
The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow. — James Larkin

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