Brooding Quote by Charles Dickens

“This was her original state; and then, as I was saying, and as the lovers of knowledge are well aware, philosophy, seeing how terrible…

— Plato

There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome such things?

— Christine Feehan

“would place beside her in my mind’s eye the young competent woman, proud, courageous, and generous, I’d known as a child. I was living…

— Jill Ker Conway

“The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can…

— Baroness Emma Orczy

“Harness the imagination: Sometimes curbing her, sometimes giving her rein, for she is the whole of happiness. She sets to rights even the understanding.…

— Baltasar Gracián

“A strange thing happened then. The Speaker agreed with her that she had made a mistake that night, and she knew when he said…

— Orson Scott Card

“She was trying to become invisible in the snow. Sudden terror had seized her: the thought of the man whose ice-blue eyes had a…

— Anna Kavan

This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not…

— Anonymous

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time,…

— George Bernard Shaw

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which…

— Anthony Trollope

“Her mind moved around and around the subject, moving with a kind of fuzzy firmness. With no coherent thought process, she arrived at a…

— Jim Thompson

She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were…

— Kate Chopin