Brooding Quotes

Brooding Quote of the day

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.

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

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

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

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

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

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

It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

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

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

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

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

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

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

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

In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.

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

Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.

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.

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.

The Johnny Depp generation has this kind of brooding, weighty, introspective quality, very James Deanish. Which is nice, great for a lot of characters.

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.

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

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

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

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.

Superman isn't moody or brooding or aggressive.

Rest you well, beloved Jesus, Caesar’s Lord and Israel’s King, In the brooding of the Spirit, in the darkness of the spring

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.

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