quotes about Sullen
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I desire Virtue, though I love her not- I have no faith in her when she is got: I fear that she will bind and make me slave And send me songless to the sullen grave.
-- Anna WickhamSource : Anna Wickham (1971). “Selected poems”, Chatto & Windus
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In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.
-- David Hume -
The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons -- it was systemic and it was complete.
-- Gary Shteyngart -
The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist.
-- Julia Kristeva -
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In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long.
-- Nathaniel Parker -
Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.
-- Stephen Vincent BenetSource : STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1928). “JOHN BROWN'S BODY”
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Um," Doc said in a mild voice, "medically speaking, I'm not sure that was the most helpful thing for his condition." "But I feel better," Jared answered, sullen. Doc smiled the tiniest smile. "Well, maybe a few more minutes of unconsciousness won't kill him.
-- Stephenie Meyer -
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And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.
-- Wilfred OwenSource : 1918 'Strange Meeting', collected in Poems (published1920).
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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 -
From somber, serious sullen saints, save us, O Lord.
-- Teresa Giudice