Brood Quotes

“I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The sky was pearly grey. It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which memories crowd upon one, memories of other shores, of other faces.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“He chuckled, shaking his head. "Man, you hunters. I break a pencil and there's hell to pay."

"I can see how that's deeply unfair, Chip. Especially if that pencil should try to kill you with it teeth and claws, or launch its brood of a thousand deadly paper clips against you.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Peeps

“Don’t brood on what has not yet come, nor rejoice at what has not yet happened.
The patient man prolongs friendship;
he who destroys a case will not be trusted.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“Wat zij mij gaf, was voldoende. Misschien waren het korstjes brood, eigenlijk voor de meeuwen bestemd; ik was er gelukkig mee, of kon doen alsof.”
― Willem Frederik Hermans, In de mist van het schimmenrijk: Fragmenten uit het oorlogsdagboek van de student Karel R.