Sullen Quotes
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Sullen Quotes & Sayings
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God, deliver me from sullen saints.
— Teresa Of Avila
The hollows around her eyes were darkly glamorous, her mouth sullen: she had the beauty of an insomniac.
— Jardine Libaire
The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist.
— Julia Kristeva
To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart.
— Edgar Allan Poe
In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.
— Margaret Atwood
Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
Ronan sometimes dreamt of Adam, too, the latter boy sullen and elegant and fluently disdainful of dream-Ronan's clumsy attempts to communicate.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen resentment to suicidal despair. Sometimes
— Eckhart Tolle
Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.
— Ralph Cudworth
Fifteen feet away, the wide River Thames rolled past, dark and deep and mysterious is the sullen-not-quite sunrise.
— Amy Butler Greenfield
The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.
— George A. Smith
I was never sullen. I was a terrible punk - I was still so chatty.
— Melissa McCarthy
A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.
— William Feather
I do not know much about gods;but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable ...
— T. S. Eliot
The next day I woke up in a sullen simmer, as if sleep had catalyzed my depression into a general state of pissed-offedness.
— Lisa Kleypas
The universe is based on sullen entropy;It falls apart as it goes on — Robyn Hitchcock
And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.
— Wilfred Owen
Your manners have been of that silent and sullen and hangdog kind, that, upon my life and soul, I have been ashamed of you, Sydney!
— Charles Dickens
The man is cold, brooding, sullen, deaf to humor. And those are his good points.
— George R R Martin
Everything in the room seemed turned away from me in sullen resistance, averthing itself from my unwelcome return.
— John Banville
If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
— Michel De Montaigne
Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long.
— Nathaniel Parker
All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.
— Oliver Goldsmith
I wait with sullen resignation, said Tuf, unmoving.
— George R R Martin
Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair ...
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The disconnect lasted too long. I think people got the idea I was sullen and couldn't communicate, which wasn't true.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale Is wild within me! what may quell
That sullen tempest? I must sail
Whither, O whither, who can tell! — Edmund Clarence Stedman
In love. In love with the stoic, the sullen, the eternally morose Varen Nethers?He would never allow it. — Kelly Creagh
I was a sullen kid who smoked cigarettes and wore black every day, and I went to a school that was lacrosse players and Izods.
— Peter Dinklage
The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.
— Alexander Smith
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
— Willa Cather
Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.
— Rudyard Kipling
Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation.
— Jim Butcher
Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.
— John Milton
There was a lot of Sullen Malarkey on John's part.
— Jennifer Echols
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
— Saint Augustine
I had never been allowed to invite friends on my birthday, and nor was I on this one. I was sullen and surly, I ate the cake without a word ...
— Karl Ove Knausgard
From somber, serious sullen saints, save us, O Lord.
— Teresa Giudice
