Sullen Quotes

67 Sullen quotes by 64 unique authors

You know, I think I understand what you're like now. You're very beautiful and you think men are only interested in you because you're beautiful.… — Jack Nicholson
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by… — Dante Alighieri
I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but… — John Donne
Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child. — Rudyard Kipling
All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. At night I hear more distinctly the steady roar of the North Mountain. In summer… — John Burroughs
If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out… — Michel de Montaigne
A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should. — William Feather
Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why. — Stephen Vincent Benet
No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am… — William Shakespeare
The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide. — Alexander Smith
Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be. — Ralph Cudworth
Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or… — Matt Dillon
Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the… — Robert E. Howard
The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its best to vex… — Robert Browning
The sight of a sullen teenager is common no matter where you go. Teenagers want things so powerfully and can never seen to get them,… — Lisa Kleypas
She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of… — Bret Easton Ellis
I can grow cameras!" she had shrieked at the Brill brothers during one briefing. "Who's to say that despicable centaur Foaly hasn't succeded in splicing… — Eoin Colfer
No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am… — William Shakespeare
Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation. — Jim Butcher
They dream of men with gentle hands, eloquent with tenderness, fingers that brushed along a cheek, that outlined open lips in the lovers' braille. Hands… — Janet Fitch
A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon,… — Michael Ondaatje
What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might be… — Barbara Ehrenreich
In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs… — Dylan Thomas

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