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• My iPod holds 3,000 albums. I own, like, 90 albums. My iPod sits at home, sullen, frustrated, and underused, like a wife who gave up her career and the kids turned out to be shite.

  Dara O Briain

  Funny, Kids, Home

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• I desire Virtue, though I love her not-
  I have no faith in her when she is got:
  I fear that she will bind and make me slave
  And send me songless to the sullen grave.

  Anna Wickham

  Desire, Slave, Virtue

  Anna Wickham (1971). “Selected poems”, Chatto & Windus

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• Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Blow, Sky, Doe

  STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1928). “JOHN BROWN'S BODY”

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• You know, I think I understand what you're like now. You're very beautiful and you think men are only interested in you because you're beautiful. But you want them to be interested in you because you're you. The problem is, aside from all that beauty, you're not very interesting. You're rude, you're hostile, you're sullen, you're withdrawn... oh, I know- you want someone to look past all that at the real person underneath. But the only reason anyone would bother to look past all that is because you're beautful. Ironic, isn't it? In an odd way you're your own problem.

  Jack Nicholson

  Beautiful, Real, Past

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• A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.

  William Feather

  Marriage, Husband, Thinking

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words are almost synonymous.
  Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen resentment to suicidal despair. Sometimes the resistance triggers the emotional pain body

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Suicidal, Emotional

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.188, New World Library

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• Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Children, Devil, Half

  1899 'The White Man's Burden'.

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• There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;in the glory of his shining our hearts poureda bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'This litany they gargle in their throatsas if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sweet, Lying, Heart

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.80, Penguin

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• Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.

  Ralph Cudworth

  Reality, Thinking, Wish

  Ralph Cudworth (1845). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated : with a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality”, p.493

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• Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.

  B. F. Skinner

  Teacher, School, Punishment

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• God, deliver me from sullen saints.

  Teresa of Avila

  Saint

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• Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.

  Edward Young

  Suicide, Wings, Soul

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.103

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• Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy contempt; but it cannot come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, strength, and consolation.

  Richard Cecil

  Philosophy, Men, Grace

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• Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Appreciation, Night, Sea

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1006, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The parent who loves his child dearly but asks for nothing in return might qualify as a saint, but he will not qualify as a parent. For a child who can claim love without meeting any of the obligations of love will be a self-centered child and many such children have grown up in our time to become petulant lovers and sullen marriage partners because the promise of unconditional love has not been fulfilled.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Unconditional Love, Self

  Selma Fraiberg (1996). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• How do we know, then, when a code's been cracked?when we are right?when do we know if we have even received a message? Why, naturally, when, upon one set of substitutions, sense emerges like the outline under a rubbing; when a single tentative construal leads to several; when all the sullen letters of the code cry TEAM! after YEA! has been, by several hands, uncovered.

  William H. Gass

  Team, Reading, Hands

  William H. Gass (2012). “World Within The Word”, p.264, Knopf

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• I had kept opaque
  Down deeper than the canyons undersea
  The sullen spectrum of a buried lake
  Nobody saw; not seen even by me.

  Allen Tate

  Lakes, Saws, Opaque

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.136, Macmillan

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• There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Pride, Men

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Sunday Under Three Heads: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.

  Charles Dickens

  Strong, Struggle, Words Of Wisdom

  Charles Dickens (1848). “Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation”, p.295

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• No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man

  Ernest Shackleton

  Running, Flower, Mean

  Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David (1909). “The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909”

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• 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

  Home, Boys, Smell

  Mervyn Peake (2008). “Titus Alone”, p.67, The Overlook Press

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• All things that we ordained festival
  Turn from their office to black funeral--
  Our instruments to melancholy bells,
  Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast;
  Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;
  Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse;
  And all things change them to the contrary.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Cheer, Flower

  William Shakespeare (1871). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.247

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• Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe
  That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow.
  Come, mourn with me for what I do lament,
  And put sullen black incontinent.
  I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land
  To wash this blood off from my guilty hand.
  March sadly after. Grace my mournings here
  In weeping after this untimely bier.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Blood, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.336, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Winter is ruthless and sometimes sullen and murderous. The wild winter North has gulped ten thousand summers down nor left a froth of sunshine on its lips.

  William Alfred Quayle

  Summer, Sunshine, Winter

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• The passion you forbade my lips to utter Will not be silenced. You must hear it in The sullen thunders when they roll and mutter: And when the tempest nears, with wail and din, I know your calm forgetfulness is broken, And to your heart you whisper, "He has spoken."

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Passion, Heart

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.246, Jazzybee Verlag

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