Best Brooding Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I'm not Mr. Brooding.”

“Sometimes I'll meet somebody, and they've looked me up online or whatever, and they've never heard me talk or met me. I think they expect me to be a lot darker than I am and maybe less - not less friendly - but I guess I'm drawn to that dark emotional music. Maybe they think I'm a little more brooding.”

“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.”

“All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.”

“It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.”

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

“The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.”

“If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.”

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

“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.'”

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

“Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.”

“It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.”

“'Satya' and 'Company' are two very dark and brooding relationship films; there was no hero.”

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

“'Find Me' I think, is brooding in a very literal sense of the word in that you have all of these sort of interior storm that's growing within Joy over the course of the book and leading her to her moment. And certainly, I think there's an aspect of the supernatural.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I have always played the intense, brooding characters but I am not like that in real life.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.”

“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.”