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It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me. -- David Guterson
The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest. -- Thomas Fuller
It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg. -- Navjot Singh Sidhu
Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil. -- David Sarnoff
If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time. -- Joe Rogan
Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. -- Charles Evans Hughes
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time. -- David Guterson
I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. -- Gabriel Byrne
The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow. -- James Larkin
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
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. -- Arthur Goldberg
I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. -- James Cameron
Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder -- Muhammad Ali
What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles. -- Kelly Macdonald
I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor. -- Maira Kalman
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. -- James Ellroy
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils. -- Dorothy Uhnak
A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog. -- Edward Noyes Westcott
Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness. -- Maj Sjowall
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
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
Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought. -- Virginia Woolf
There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic. -- David Lehman
Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar. -- George Meredith
It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength. -- Henry Ward Beecher
"Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know his world and, so far as his art is concerned, any kind of battering from his world is better than his own self-indulgent brooding. -- Harriet Monroe
So when the great word "Mother!" rang once more, I saw at last its meaning and its place; Not the blind passion of the brooding past, But Mother -- the World's Mother -- come at last, To love as she had never loved before -- To feed and guard and teach the human race. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. -- Andre Maurois
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils. -- Dorothy Uhnak
I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired. -- Nick Harkaway
The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time. -- Vin Diesel
All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist. -- Ellsworth Kelly
I seem to be attracted to the quiet, brooding type. But not too brooding. Too brooding can be narcissistic. Or psychotic. -- Kelli Garner
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
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
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
For 'Fright Night,' we really want to convey the fun attitude of the movie and show the intensity of Colin Farrell as a predator. He's not a brooding vampire - he's dark and dangerous. -- Stacey Snider
I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage. -- John Leo
I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would see that I'm still brooding about statements, songs and issues from the third grade. The years between 1980 and today went by very, very quickly. -- Wallace Shawn
I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining. -- Nathan Fillion
The gay bunting erects his white crest, and gives utterance to the joy he feels in the presence of his brooding mate; the willow grouse on the rock crows his challenge aloud; each floweret, chilled by the night air, expands its pure petals; the gentle breeze shakes from the blades of grass the heavy dewdrops. -- John James Audubon
One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality. -- Martha Beck
... too much brooding, not enough doing. -- Timothy Findley
Superman isn't moody or brooding or aggressive ... -- Henry Cavill
Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick. -- Margo Jefferson
Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice. -- Ouida
Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings. -- Bram Stoker
In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness. -- Baden Powell de Aquino
The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors. -- Yosa Buson
Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit. -- Rohinton Mistry
The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. -- Swami Vivekananda
He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games. -- Magnus Carlsen
Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day -- Charles Evans Hughes
The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns. -- Irving Stone
The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude. -- Krist Novoselic
Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs. -- George Eliot
Contact lenses make me miserable, as soon as I put them in. That's what creates the pouting and brooding character. -- Robert Pattinson
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past. -- Indira Gandhi
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
Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair. -- Charlie Pierce
Rest you well, beloved Jesus, Caesar's Lord and Israel's King, In the brooding of the Spirit, in the darkness of the spring -- N. T. Wright
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
The Johnny Depp generation has this kind of brooding, weighty, introspective quality, very James Deanish. Which is nice, great for a lot of characters. -- Todd Haynes
Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only determine the worth. -- Immanuel Hermann Fichte
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 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
I have important business to get to. I plan to sulk all afternoon, followed, perhaps, by an evening of Byronic brooding and a nighttime of dissipation. -- Cassandra Clare
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
Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita -- Charles de Lint
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
I'm a pretty upbeat person. I think I sometimes get cast as these brooding types because I bring light and joy, which hopefully makes them more likable. -- Jake Epstein
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
Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one. -- Grantland Rice
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
That had been the trouble with him and Betsy: what with his brooding about the past and worrying about the future, there had never been any present at all. -- Sloan Wilson
While silently brooding, I am drawn to the start of a sweet melody that travels to my ear from afar. I smile, reminded that my heart can dance when my feet can't. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry. -- Aberjhani
Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly, like slumping hitters, studying the film of their old whiffs. -- Michael Chabon
North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east or west; there was only the brooding desolation. -- Shelby Foote
I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded. -- Jean Giraudoux
All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course today every rascal thinks he knows the answer, but he is deluding himself. -- Albert Einstein
That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image. -- William Faulkner

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