Brooding Quotes

101 quotes by 95 authors

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing. — Daniel H. Wilson
The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is… — Annie Dillard
My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that notify them when… — Garrison Keillor
Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he… — Arthur C. Clarke
Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit. — Rohinton Mistry
For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed dark verse in… — Christopher Moore
Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at last… — Charles Dickens
... too much brooding, not enough doing. — Timothy Findley
Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding… — Loren Eiseley
An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky; it is grounded… — Salman Rushdie
May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in… — Arundhati Roy
The Winter Woman is as wild as a blizzard, as fresh as new snow. While some see her as cold, she has a fiery heart… — Christopher Moore
Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by… — Virginia Woolf
You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned?… — Martin Buber
If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To… — Yukio Mishima
Women were supposed to be the enigmas, but men? Moody, brooding bastards, the lot of them. A woman with PMS had nothing on a man.… — Maya Banks
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in… — Andre Maurois
Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings. — Bram Stoker
. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as… — Charles Dickens
But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again. "People forget that… — Diane Duane

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