Sullen Quotes

67 quotes by 64 authors

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. — Saint Augustine
What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion.… — Ezra Taft Benson
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it;… — Thomas Carlyle
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. — Willa Cather
Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because… — Fiona Apple
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely… — Charles Dickens
This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they… — George Crabbe
The disconnect lasted too long. I think people got the idea I was sullen and couldn't communicate, which wasn't true. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain… — William Blake
And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell. — Wilfred Owen
Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long. — Nathaniel Parker
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely… — Edward Hoagland
If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is… — Philip Pullman
In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found. — David Hume
Soon will set in the fitful weather, with fierce gales and sullen skies and frosty air, and it will be time to tuck up safely… — Celia Thaxter
Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed; and the great… — Moby
My boyfriend dumped me. My best friend won't talk to me. My future is in a garbage can. Everything has turned to crap. Can you… — J J Johnson
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person — Horace

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