"Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the……" — Charles Dickens

More Brooding Quotes

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• I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world,… — James Cameron
• Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung… — Virginia Woolf
• I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that… — Jean Giraudoux
• The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm,… — Charles Dickens
• In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and… — George Washington Carver
• The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors. — Yosa Buson
• Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential… — Charlie Pierce
• Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, you change everything into bitterness… — Jane Frances de Chantal
• Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils. — Dorothy Uhnak
• This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of… — E. M. Forster
• When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in… — Walter de La Mare

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