Top 168 Brooding Quotes & Sayings

I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.

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

... too much brooding, not enough doing.

Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.

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

The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

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.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired.

Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder.

Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.

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.

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.

It must be extremely uncomfortable to live with a writer - all that preoccupation and brooding.

If we're not careful, this archetype of the dark, brooding, broken antihero gets held up on a pedestal for the wrong reasons.

Contact lenses make me miserable, as soon as I put them in. That's what creates the pouting and brooding character.

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

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

So many fantastic male characters are brooding, angry, and not nice; that doesn't happen as much with women.

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

I'm not Mr. Brooding.

Superman isn't moody or brooding or aggressive.

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

He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.

Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick.

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

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

'Catcher in the Rye.' I feel like any brooding teen loves that book.

No man can ever repay the brooding mother love to which he his life.

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

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

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

I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes.

The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.

The Johnny Depp generation has this kind of brooding, weighty, introspective quality, very James Deanish. Which is nice, great for a lot of characters.

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

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

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

The summer Night comes brooding down on Earth, As Love comes brooding down on human hearts, With bliss that hath no utterance save rich tears. She floats in fragrance down the smiling dark, Foldeth a kiss upon the lips of Life-- Curtaineth into rest the weary world-- And shuts us in with all our hid delights.

In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness.

All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.

Rest you well, beloved Jesus, Caesar’s Lord and Israel’s King, In the brooding of the Spirit, in the darkness of the spring

Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead

The guys who spend their time brooding in their younger years either lighten up or go away.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

'Satya' and 'Company' are two very dark and brooding relationship films; there was no hero.

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.

I would like to break out of this "dark, brooding" image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding is a term we use for hens. A brooding hen is supposed to lay eggs. Everytime somebody says "He's dark and brooding" I think: "He's about to lay an egg".

The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors.

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.

The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.

The tortured similes, the brooding introspection, the jaundiced view of society - nobody ever has any fun in a Ross Macdonald book.