Top 33 Brooding Quotes

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

My favourite character would have to be ‘Ash,’ because I love my brooding bad boys. But a certain snarky talking cat runs a very close second.

I’m not Mr. Brooding.

It’s a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

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

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

In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.

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

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

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

Supernatural movies generally have a much more brooding pace. If you look at films like ‘The Sixth Sense’ or ‘The Others,’ it’s more building up the characters and building up the situation as opposed to just opening with a big action set piece.

Al-Qaida became the new Soviet Union, and in the process, Bin Laden became a demonic, terrifyingly powerful figure brooding in a cave while he controlled and directed the al-Qaida network throughout the world. In this way, a serious but manageable terrorist threat became grossly exaggerated.

The gay bunting erects his white crest, and gives utterance to the joy he feels in the presence of his brooding mate; the willow grouse on the rock crows his challenge aloud; each floweret, chilled by the night air, expands its pure petals; the gentle breeze shakes from the blades of grass the heavy dewdrops.

I can express the brooding part of myself on-screen. It’s kind of fun to get to do the bratty things I really wouldn’t do. And then I get to go back to my regular life.

No matter how successful I may get, I’ll always be a failed musician, sitting at a concert double-fisting overpriced twenty-ounce beers, wishing it was me on stage brooding soulfully to my fans. I had my shot once, but I let it slip through my fingers.

I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.

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

It’s fun to watch a show that you can watch with any member of your family, and you’re going to laugh, and you’re going to be moved, and you’re going to have fun, rather than this dark, brooding, cold, ‘purely procedural show.’

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Squirrel Girl is basically a Silver Age character in the modern age, and that makes her a fish out of water in a lot of ways. She likes being a superhero. She likes fighting crime. She doesn’t sit around brooding in the darkness of her Squirrel Hole trying to figure out new ways to make crime pay.

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

One of the reasons I like living in Bangkok is that, although it’s a megacity, it’s very saturated with nature – the vast and brooding skies, the sudden storms and rains, the vegetation and even the animals that abound.

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

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

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

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

I think there’s been this whole image of masculinity that’s been out in society – of brooding, brutish, egotistical, narcissistic men – like, this patriarchy.

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