#sullen

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#else #everybody #feel #i #i feel

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

#cheerful #cheerfulness #endurance #longer #man

I doubt taking in a sullen, bitter, teenage girl with more issues than National Geographic is at the center of the vision board for a single woman in her early thirties. ↗

— Katja Millay

#issues #sullen #vision-board #teenagers

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person. ↗

— Horace

#modest person #passes #person #reserved #silent

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#bounds #cannot #guardian #hear #our

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

#base #certain #farther #finds #go

Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be! ↗

— William Cartwright

#flatter #gone #hang #how #joy

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ↗

— Willa Cather

#hangs #lies #long #old #shabby