Sullen Quotes - Page 5

• In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.

  Margaret Atwood

  Weather, Evening, Thunder

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.48, Anchor

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• In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

  David Hume

  Empathy, Apathy, True Happiness

  David Hume (1870). “Essays, Literary, Moral, and Political”, p.88

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• Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed; and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

  Moby

  Yawning, Years, Sea

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