Brooding Quotes

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

Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow. - Sir Walter Scott

They raise their minds by brooding over and embellishing their sufferings, from one degree of fervid exaltation and dreary greatness to another, till at length they run amuck entirely, and whoever meets them would do well to run them thro' the body. - Thomas Carlyle

They are more isolated, and it can breed brooding. It would make them feel so much better...to do something different. - Gordon Sauer

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

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest. - Thomas Fuller