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Quotes About Brooding

He's getting grimmer and grimmer," Barabas said. "Derek?" "Yes. Before long he will start emitting his own dark cloud." "Maybe we can all sneak around under the cover of his darkness.
~ Ilona Andrews
The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
~ Irving Stone
Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit, but, by some irregularity in the process of conjuration, has failed to win the master-word that should control this new and incomprehensible intelligence.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Generally, I walk around in a glum mood.
~ Colson Whitehead
The sense of an unseen order, brooding attentively over our lives, restores purpose to individual acts of concern.
~ Kim Chernin
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
And he spoke very slowly, in a voice that was also like fog, that drifted and curled and hid things, and you knew that there were mysteries there and things brooding just out of sight and far-off lights that you would never reach.
~ George R.R. Martin
The man is cold, brooding, sullen, deaf to humor. And those are his good points.
~ George R.R. Martin
So, what are we doing tonight? Wait, let me guess, sitting in morose silence. Or, no…you're mixing it up. Brooding with soulful intensity, right? What a fucking wild child you are. Whoo. Hoo. Next thing you know, you'll be opening for Slipknot." With
~ J.R. Ward
That merely glimpsing three good wooden boxes on a baggage-wain could lead to such broodings made Daniel wonder that he could get out of bed in the morning. Once, he had feared that old age would bring senility; now, he was certain it would slowly paralyze him by encumbering each tiny thing with all sorts of significations.
~ Neal Stephenson
She had seen those eyes dark with brooding anger and cold as ice, she'd seen his gaze veiled like a spiderweb and shattering like a gate under pressure. But she'd never seen them as they were now. Full of wondering joy and disbelief, and an almost frightened awe.
~ L.J. Smith
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
Beyond the castle walls, the city lay in almost total darkness. Above, the moon was pallid and misted. It was a brooding, darkling night. And, it seemed to him, doom walked the heavens.
~ James Clavell
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
~ James Ellroy
It must be extremely uncomfortable to live with a writer - all that preoccupation and brooding.
~ W. G. Sebald
Batman is dark and moody and spooky and, in some cases, methodical.
~ Paul Dini
Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.
~ David Sarnoff
Brooding on God, I may become a man.Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire;What burns me now? Desire, desire, desire.
~ Theodore Roethke
She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.
~ Nick Hornby
I am always disgusted by the world. The more that time passes the more I become increasingly broody and tight-lipped. I have so many things in mind and so much that I plan to do that an entire human lifetime is barely enough for me to finish everything I'm thinking, and to set it down in writing. That's why I have an absolute need for countryside, quiet, solitude.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
BECAUSE IT CONTINUED TO RAIN, CONNOR SAT IN BRANNA'S workshop, drinking his second beer and brooding at the fire. When Fin walked in, he scowled. "You'd be wise to feck off. I'm not fit company.
~ Nora Roberts
I enjoy a good brood myself, though most often I prefer just punching something and being done with it.
~ Nora Roberts
Gareth's eyes slipped open. "You make me nervous when you do that." "Do what?" "Brood. Your brooding is rather loud." "Oh please. I was hardly—" His eyebrow rose. "Fine. I was brooding. It's not like you don't." "Mine is inherent to my romantic nature. Cloaks and castles." Adele threw up her hands. "That's it. You are forbidden to look at any more cheap books about yourself.
~ Clay Griffith
Brooding only looks good in the movies.
~ Clive Barker