Brooding Quote by Martin E. Marty

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

— Samuel Johnson

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity and buffeting. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and…

— James E. Faust

Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with…

— Lydia Sigourney

“How many people we know who sour their lives, who ruin all that is sweet and beautiful by explosive tempers, who destroy their poise…

— James Allen

The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog.…

— Ingmar Bergman

Despair makes us serve evil as much as good.

— Hadewijch

Oh, I'm developing a beautiful character! It droops a bit under cold and frost, but it does grow fast when the sun shines. That's…

— Jean Webster

“Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues…

— Edgar Allan Poe

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

— Henry Ward Beecher

But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows down, too…

— Eric G. Wilson

Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?

— Saul Bellow