Brooding Quotes

101 quotes by 95 authors

Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things… — Charles de Lint
We are all prone to brood on the evil done us. That brooding becomes as a gnawing and destructive canker. Is there a virtue more… — Gordon B. Hinckley
That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating… — William Faulkner
I have important business to get to. I plan to sulk all afternoon, followed, perhaps, by an evening of Byronic brooding and a nighttime of… — Cassandra Clare
In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very… — Carson McCullers
And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath dripping melancholy branches… — Jack Kerouac
Meditation upon death does not teach one how to die; it does not make the departure more easy, but ease is not what I seek.… — Marguerite Yourcenar
Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?" "Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but now I find… — Scott Westerfeld
Nefarious. This is what we get when we hire a Yale boy.â€ â€œYou missed sacrosanct earlier. And taciturn and glowering,â€ Jack said. â€œWhatâ€™s glowering?â€ â€œMe,… — Julie James
They think you can't feel anything, because they've forgotten how. You're very, very dangerous, I get that, and you're prone to some very theatrical brooding,… — Holly Black
Sure, losing an election hurts, but I've experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might have been is… — Bob Dole
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else. — Arnold Bennett
I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a… — John Leo
I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor. — Maira Kalman
The gay bunting erects his white crest, and gives utterance to the joy he feels in the presence of his brooding mate; the willow grouse… — John James Audubon
The simplest of things have the most profound beauty.But you can only see them if youre really there.If your mind is brooding, if youre offsomewhere… — Senoraroy
It wants not merely microscopic but telescopic power to know humanity in its essence; a power to discern its grandeur as well as its littleness,… — Zoheb
Make the best use of time. Dont spend time brooding over past mistakes or worrying about the future. Remember, time lost can never be regained. — Vikrant Parsai
Inherently within the temperamental soul of humanity lies a shivering and thoroughly jealous irrational thought of death. Life has such a fickle intense passion, always… — Johnny Luckett
A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog - keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe. — Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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