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Wanting soul life without the dark, warming intelligence of personal doubt is like expecting an egg without the brooding heat of the mother hen. — David Whyte

... too much brooding, not enough doing. — Timothy Findley

Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil. — David Sarnoff

What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles. — Kelly Macdonald

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. — Swami Vivekananda

Sex is like a drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day. — Margaret Atwood

How silently the world revolved, when one was brooding, and alone. — Eleanor Catton

For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it. — Rachel Kushner

Always think positively, don't smoke, don't drink, don't dwell on bad thoughts, don't waste time brooding, and go for a walk every day! — Karsten Thormaehlen

Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I'm attracted to those tragic, brooding boys in the novels, and I should learn to separate reality from fiction. — Jo Raven

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me. — David Guterson

My favourite character would have to be 'Ash,' because I love my brooding bad boys. But a certain snarky talking cat runs a very close second. — Julie Kagawa

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing. — Daniel H. Wilson

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils. — Amy Lowell

Lonely? Yes. But a solemn, brooding, tragic loneliness that a man hates with a passion - and yet loves so much he craves for more. — George R R Martin

Do not look down, brooding over your weakness! Do not look back upon your past, strewn with failure! Look up to the living Christ! — F.B. Meyer

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor. — Maira Kalman

Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings. — Bram Stoker

I seem to be attracted to the quiet, brooding type. But not too brooding. Too brooding can be narcissistic. Or psychotic. — Kelli Garner

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. — Charles Evans Hughes

For a while he sat idly outside his door brooding in the spring sun.

In "The Lost Phoebe". — Dreiser Theodore

Sydney Katherine Sage," he said, his green eyes full of love and earnestness. "Would you do a brooding, deadbeat Moroi the honor of being his wife? — Richelle Mead

brooding over the upper reaches, became — Joseph Conrad

She is a girl who cannot walk her troubles off, or work them off; she is a girl to sit around and glare. — Dodie Smith

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest. — Thomas Fuller

Superman isn't moody or brooding or aggressive ... — Henry Cavill

I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. — Gabriel Byrne

I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music. It is the smell of home. — Mervyn Peake

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg. — Navjot Singh Sidhu

Hirsch is for weddings and Lagavulin is for divorces. Hirsch is as upbeat and happy as Lagavulin is dark and brooding. — Fritz Allhoff

The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors. — Yosa Buson

I knew perfectly well what it was over which he was brooding. — Arthur Conan Doyle

'Catcher in the Rye.' I feel like any brooding teen loves that book. — Justice Smith

We wizards are terrific at brooding. — Jim Butcher

I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games. — Magnus Carlsen

I didn't look up, occupied as I was with brooding, a famous pastime of wizards everywhere. — Jim Butcher

I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes. — Bryan Callen

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. — James Ellroy

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice. — Ouida

I found Deborah waiting for me, slumped into my chair and looking like the poster girl for the National Brooding Outrage Foundation. — Jeff Lindsay

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs. — George Eliot

I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired. — Nick Harkaway

The man is cold, brooding, sullen, deaf to humor. And those are his good points. — George R R Martin

No man is a sinister brooding presence to his mother, — Miranda Neville

The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude. — Krist Novoselic

Optimism ... is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair. — Charlie Pierce

Darcy's got the tempestuous masculinity and brooding looks, but Knightley is a kinder, softer man with no pretense or dissimilation. — Katherine Reay

Open your eyes, boy. Your eyes. Open your eyes and no more turn aside and brood. — Will Christopher Baer

I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk. — Loren Eiseley

I'd never seen so many Goths in one place. All dark clothes and brooding faces, like a gathering of small thunderclouds. — Simon R. Green

It's wrong to give so much time over to mourning, she tells herself. Mourning and brooding. There's nothing to be accomplished by it. — Margaret Atwood

You can not make yourself whole again by brooding one hundred percent of the time on the darkness of the world. We are the light of the world. — Ivan Van Sertima

The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow. — James Larkin

Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder — Muhammad Ali

It's like they were worried that I'd be alone all day brooding and painting my cabin black or something - sheesh. — Melissa Walker

Contact lenses make me miserable, as soon as I put them in. That's what creates the pouting and brooding character. — Robert Pattinson

Girls on the other hand, have always come easy. I don't know why that is, exactly. Maybe it's the outsider vibe and a well-placed brooding look. — Kendare Blake

Brooding on God, I may become a man. — Theodore Roethke

People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it. — Lenny Kravitz

Are you in love with me, the me I am right now?"
"Well not right now," he said, brooding. "Right now you're kinda mean."
-Tara and Logan — Jill Shalvis

Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness. — Maj Sjowall

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's. — Ed Gorman

Work, Mrs. Hill knew, might not be a cure for all ailments, but it was a sovereign remedy against the more brooding kinds. — Jo Baker

Very well, Your Ladyship Brooding St. Petulant, — Libba Bray

Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead — Charles Dickens

I'm not ashamed of being a bubbly, funny person. I think that's as valid as being the dark, brooding, tortured Oscar-nominated one. — Cameron Diaz

A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog. — Edward Noyes Westcott

I never was strutting through the hallways like, "Yeah, I'm a singer/songwriter." That's never a cool thing to do - to be the brooding guy. — Tyler Hilton

Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick. — Margo Jefferson

Only a fool lies brooding over his problems. When the morning comes he's tired out and his problems are the same as before. — Robert Lyndon

The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time. — Vin Diesel

In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness. — Baden Powell De Aquino

There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book is finished. — Claire Wingfield

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past. — Indira Gandhi

Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit. — Rohinton Mistry

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else. — Arnold Bennett

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time. — David Guterson

I love brooding in a bucolic valley about your endless compassion. — Debasish Mridha

Again there was silence - a silence as of consummated Evil brooding above its unnamable triumph. — H.P. Lovecraft

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time. — Joe Rogan

All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist. — Ellsworth Kelly

I had a dejected, brooding expression on my face, and I
could tell from the reflection in the window that it was also
an intriguing expression. — The Harvard Lampoon

Tough guy, if brooding was a sport, you'd have gold medals with scowling faces lining the walls of your room. — Julie Kagawa

Good Lord. His appearance was nearly a caricature of the dark and brooding hero from every gothic novel. — Tarun Shanker

Salinger, Plath, Toole, the literature of choice for the brooding outcast. — Rob Thomas

The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns. — Irving Stone

The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn't have. — Will Ferrell