Top 14 Sullen Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Sullen Quotes from famous people such as Peter Dinklage, Ezra Taft Benson, Thomas Carlyle, Tara Lynne Barr, Melissa McCarthy, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I was a sullen kid who smoked cigarettes and wore black

I was a sullen kid who smoked cigarettes and wore black every day, and I went to a school that was lacrosse players and Izods.
Peter Dinklage
What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.
Ezra Taft Benson
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas Carlyle
I’ve been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I’ve been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.
Tara Lynne Barr
I was never sullen. I was a terrible punk – I was still so chatty.
Melissa McCarthy
It’s really odd that I’ve got this kind of sullen reputation – I never saw myself that way.
Irvine Welsh
I never get sullen, sad, or envious, because those emotions will get me nowhere.
Aditya Roy Kapur
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Willa Cather
I like to laugh and have a good time rather than brood and be sullen.
Jon Hamm
We cannot pass our guardian angel’s bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
Saint Augustine
There’s a lot of rudeness and sullen behavior and kids that are very entitled and spoiled, just buy me more stuff. I didn’t want to raise kids like that.
Amy Chua
The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.
George A. Smith
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
Horace
I was very depressed at a young age and felt like I didn’t have agency towards that. Being ‘female’ meant I couldn’t be that – I couldn’t be angry, loud, sullen. Being sad meant I was weak.
Petra Collins