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  • An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky; it is grounded in flight, the earth mutated--nearly--into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted. Long before she ever encountered the mountain, Allie was aware of its brooding presence in her soul.

    Air   Land   Sky  
    Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking
  • "Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know his world and, so far as his art is concerned, any kind of battering from his world is better than his own self-indulgent brooding.

    Art   Writing   Mean  
  • 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.

    Iron   Yellow   Nerves  
    Virginia Woolf (1984). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941”, Harcourt
  • 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.

    Home   Boys   Smell  
    Mervyn Peake (2008). “Titus Alone”, p.67, The Overlook Press
  • God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we see it, do not follow it, Because it is too hard, too strange, too new, Too unbelievable, too difficult, Warring too much with common, easy ways, And now I know this, standing in this light, Who have been half alive these many years, Brooding on my own sorrow, my own pain, Saying "I am a barren bough. Expect, Nor fruit nor blossom from a barren bough."

    Pain   Light   Years  
    "A Child Is Born". Poetic Christmas drama in one act by Stephen Vincent Benet (first presented on radio as part of the anthology program "Cavalcade of America"), December 21, 1942.
  • Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.

    Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo (2010). “Roseanna: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (1)”, p.68, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

  • It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand; those who lived would get on with it. Whatever sorrow was felt, there was no point in talking or brooding about it, much less in making, for form's sake, a parade of it. Better and healthier to forget it, and look to tomorrow.The celebrated British stiff upper lip, the resolve to conceal emotion which is not only embarrassing and useless, but harmful, is just plain commons sense

    War   Men   Past  
  • North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east or west; there was only the brooding desolation.

    Men   East   West  
    Shelby Foote (2011). “The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian”, p.128, Vintage
  • Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, you change everything into bitterness by constantly brooding over everything. For the love of God, replace all this self-scrutiny with a pure and simple glance at God's goodness.

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

    Sorry   Lying   Player  
    "I am chaotic and lazy". Interview with Maik Grossekathöfer, "Spiegel", March 15, 2010.
  • Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it's only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only in the reader's mind. Actually, harmless. I am not harmless.

    Lying   Grief   Writing  
    Amy Bloom (2013). “A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You”, p.87, Pan Macmillan
  • Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love foods which stimulate the taste buds without overloading the belly. Profound, meditative people prefer neutral foods which do not have an assertive flavor and are not difficult to digest, and therefore do not demand too much attention.

  • 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.

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

    Dream   Evil   Quitting  
  • The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.

    Law   Sky   Voice  
    "Southern Pacific Company v. Jensen 244 U.S. 205, 222". Dissenting opinion, May 21, 1917.
  • Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not come to mind had we not brooded at our desks and searched for answers with passionate devotion.

    Writing   Ideas   Mind  
    Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.136, Routledge
  • You can not make yourself whole again by brooding one hundred percent of the time on the darkness of the world. We are the light of the world.

    Light   Darkness   World  
  • 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, Matty Groves (2004). “The Chimes”, p.65, Quiet River Press LLC
  • 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.

    Success   Real   Dark  
  • Superman isn't moody or brooding or aggressive.

    Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.
  • The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.

    Roles   Film   Brooding  
  • I never was strutting through the hallways like, "Yeah, I'm a singer/songwriter." That's never a cool thing to do - to be the brooding guy.

    Guy   Singers   Yeah  
    Source: www.seventeen.com
  • Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

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

    Eggs   Sitting   Hens  
  • Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

    "Keeping Politics out of the Court". The New York Times, December 09, 1984.
  • I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

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

    Dark   Break Out   Causes  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image.

    Country   Men   Land  
    William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America
  • Rest you well, beloved Jesus, Caesar’s Lord and Israel’s King, In the brooding of the Spirit, in the darkness of the spring

    Jesus   Kings   Spring  
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