Top 30 Brooding Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Brooding Quotes from famous people such as Eden Robinson, David Sarnoff, Maira Kalman, Thomas Fuller, Vin Diesel, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain,

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.
Eden Robinson
Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man’s capacity for evil.
David Sarnoff
I like the brooding man – a brooding man with a sense of humor.
Maira Kalman
The devil lies brooding in the miser’s chest.
Thomas Fuller
The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you’re in this heavy headspace all the time.
Vin Diesel
I’m afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would see that I’m still brooding about statements, songs and issues from the third grade. The years between 1980 and today went by very, very quickly.
Wallace Shawn
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.
Adam Curtis
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.
Julie Kagawa
I’m a pretty upbeat person. I think I sometimes get cast as these brooding types because I bring light and joy, which hopefully makes them more likable.
Jake Epstein
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
James Ellroy
Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.
Charles Evans Hughes
You must always be open to new experiences; by this means, your physical and etheric bodies will be brought into a condition which may be compared with the contented mood of a brooding hen.
Rudolf Steiner
So many fantastic male characters are brooding, angry, and not nice; that doesn’t happen as much with women.
Georgina Campbell
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.
Noah Centineo
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.’
Dean Devlin
For ‘Fright Night,’ we really want to convey the fun attitude of the movie and show the intensity of Colin Farrell as a predator. He’s not a brooding vampire – he’s dark and dangerous.
Stacey Snider
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.
Bert Kreischer
In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
Daniel H. Wilson
The tortured similes, the brooding introspection, the jaundiced view of society – nobody ever has any fun in a Ross Macdonald book.
Donald E. Westlake
The funny guy doesn’t get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn’t have.
Will Ferrell
I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I’m optimistic, healthy and fair-haired.
Nick Harkaway
I’m not Mr. Brooding.
Joshua Henry
‘Satya’ and ‘Company’ are two very dark and brooding relationship films; there was no hero.
Ram Gopal Varma
The guys who spend their time brooding in their younger years either lighten up or go away.
Mark Lanegan
Sad music, I always thought, is more beautiful than other music. But at the same time, I am in my personal life a very happy guy. I have a sense of humor. I am not the kind of depressed guy all the time brooding. No. I am very enthusiastic about things.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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.
Nathan Fillion
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don’t feel required to grasp all the time.
David Guterson
It’s like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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.
James Cameron
It’s a brooding melancholy that haunts me.
David Guterson