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”

  85 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  31 Copy quote

• 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”

  63 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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”

  67 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Maira Kalman

  Men, Sense Of Humor

  13 Copy quote

• 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

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  David Guterson

  People, Serenity, Literature

  10 Copy quote

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

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Eggs, Sitting, Hens

  11 Copy quote

• 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

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.

  James Larkin

  Blow, Men, Broken

  James Larkin (1995*). “In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography”, Blackwater Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

  David Guterson

  Melancholy

  8 Copy quote

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

  Edward Noyes Westcott

  Dog, Humor, Fleas

  8 Copy quote

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

  Kelly Macdonald

  Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time considering and brooding over what we can't do, rather than what we can do, and instead of growing morose and despondent over opportunities either real or imaginary that are shut from us, let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer and upon which there is no color line; simply the survival of the fittest.

  George Washington Carver

  Success, Real, Dark

  73 Copy quote

• If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Tasks, Addresses

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

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep; but that over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths.

  Thomas Cole

  Nature, Rocks, Water

  Thomas Cole (1980). “The collected essays and prose sketches”

  85 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Thomas Fuller

  Lying, Devil, Misers

  12 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• 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.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Dorothy Uhnak

  Dream, Evil, Quitting

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

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

  Joe Rogan

  Thinking, Play, People

  8 Copy quote

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

  James Ellroy

  Thinking, Crime, American History

  14 Copy quote

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

  David Sarnoff

  Life, Men, Evil

  8 Copy quote