Sullenness Quotes

#1. A miserable scrooge whom lacks charity for the entire world is a menace to society. Spiritual sullenness destroys men quicker than gunfire.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#2. All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another.

Donna Tartt

#3. At home in Dellacrosse my place in the world of college and Troy and incipient adulthood dissolved and I became an unseemly collection of jostling former selves. Snarkiness streaked through my voice, or sullenness drove me behind a closed door for hours at a time.

Lorrie Moore

#4. At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. And now and then it blazes forth in veiled but hot anger.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#5. The simple fact was, that Oliver, instead of possessing too little feeling, possessed rather too much, and was in a fair way of being reduced to a state of brutal stupidity and sullenness for life, by the ill usage he had received.

Charles Dickens

#6. In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

John Milton

#7. He calls these projects gophers, as in, go-for-the-money (don't-deliver-the-project).

Richard House

#8. Some drawings are better than others ... Some are utterly spoiled ... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing ... But their chief use is to mortify one's conceit, to show how thoroughly incompetent it is possible to be, and to shame one into better ways.

Walter J. Phillips

#9. Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. I was a shy ugly kid who led a big fantasy life. I thought I was an angel sent from heaven, to cure polio. When Dr. Salk did that I was really pissed off.

Cher

#11. Before annihilation comes an exile from Nature, and then only through wonder and transcendence, the Ghetto rabbi taught, may one combat the psychic disintegration of everyday life.

Diane Ackerman

#12. To conceal an action is deceit. Even the husband is not aware of the deceit [by wife]. Lying is also deceit.

Dada Bhagwan

#13. We create our work for children not because they're "cute," but because they're human beings, deserving of respect.

Mo Willems

#14. I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

Samantha Morton