#brood

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#brooding #guilt #morality #remorse #repentance

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

— James Ellroy

#american #american history #brooding #crime #history

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

— David Guterson

#feel #grasp #i #interpret #melancholy

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me. ↗

— David Guterson

#haunts #me #melancholy

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

— Charles Evans Hughes

#another day #appeals #brooding #day #intelligence

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#brood #forever #get #living #loving

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

— Gabriel Byrne

#break #brooding #cause #dark #i

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

#bicycles #brooding #civil #civil servants #cost

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#chest #devil #lies #miser

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

— James Larkin

#blow #broken #brooding #fresh #loathe