Brooding Quotes
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Brooding Quotes & Sayings
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... too much brooding, not enough doing.
— Timothy Findley
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
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
It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.
— David Guterson
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
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
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
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
I knew perfectly well what it was over which he was brooding.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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
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
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
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
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 Icould 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
