Brooding Quotes

• 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

  Rivers, Cost Of Living, Magic Moments

  James Cameron (1968). “What a way to run the tribe: selected articles, 1948-67”

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• 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

  Depression, Inspirational Life, Worry

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• On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Guilt, Rolling

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• 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

  Giving Up, Deep Water, Sea

  Charles Dickens, Matty Groves (2004). “The Chimes”, p.65, Quiet River Press LLC

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• Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Forgiveness, Time

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• 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

  Iron, Yellow, Nerves

  Virginia Woolf (1984). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941”, Harcourt

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• I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

  Maira Kalman

  Men, Sense Of Humor

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

  David Guterson

  People, Serenity, Literature

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

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Eggs, Sitting, Hens

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

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta”, p.10, Advaita Ashrama

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• It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

  David Guterson

  Melancholy

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• 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

  Fun, Artist, Thinking

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

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Law, Liberty, Another Day

  "Keeping Politics out of the Court". The New York Times, December 09, 1984.

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

  Dorothy Uhnak

  Dream, Evil, Quitting

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• 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

  Inspirational, Mother, Passion

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)”, p.1838, Delphi Classics

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• God has so ordered, that in pressing on in duty we shall find the truest, richest comfort for ourselves. Sitting down to brood over our sorrows, the darkness deepens about us and creeps into our heart, and our strength changes to weakness. But, if we turn away from the gloom, and take up the tasks and duties to which God calls us, the light will come again, and we shall grow stronger.

  Lettie Cowman

  Heart, Light, Darkness

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• The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.

  George Santayana

  Art, Queens, Passion

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.38, Рипол Классик

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• 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

  Air, Criticism, Lasts

  David Lehman (1992). “Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man”, Poseidon Pr

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

  Kelli Garner

  Narcissistic, Quiet, Psychotic

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

  David Sarnoff

  Life, Men, Evil

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

  James Ellroy

  Thinking, Crime, American History

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

  Gabriel Byrne

  Dark, Break Out, Causes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Religious, Neutrality, Constitution

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

  Joe Rogan

  Thinking, Play, People

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• The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

  Thomas Fuller

  Lying, Devil, Misers

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