Garry Trudeau

I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?

American Cartoonist

Washington Irving

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

American Writer

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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.

Mexican Director

Maeve Binchy

The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.

Irish Novelist

Abraham Lincoln

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

American President

Will Ferrell

The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn't have.

American Comedian

Bryan Callen

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

American Actor

Georgina Campbell

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

English Actress

Gutzon Borglum

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

American Sculptor

Leo Buscaglia

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

American Author

Use 'brood' when referring to a whole family of young ones together, especially with animals or birds.

Family Focus

'Brood' suggests several offspring, rather than just one or two.

Numbers Implied

While 'brood' can refer to human families, it might feel impersonal or humorous.

Not for Humans

'Brood' as a verb carries a mood of worry or deep thought, often associated with negative feelings.

Emotional Weight

'Brood' is more than thinking; it implies an obsessive, prolonged focus on something distressing.

Not Just Thinking

Overusing 'brood' for any kind of thinking may dilute its strong, emotive connotation.

Avoid Overuse

Used for birds, 'brood' evokes a sense of nurturing care during the hatching process.

Nurturing Connotation

When describing a bird, 'brood' specifically means sitting on eggs to hatch them.

Specific Action

As an adjective, 'brooding' suggests a moody or serious atmosphere or personality.

Moody Vibe

A 'brooding' appearance often implies a hidden depth or intensity of emotion.

Subtle Intensity

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 A brooding, reformed playboy who falls for, of all things, a virgin, and who is only occasionally shirtless. Now, these roles don't represent the kind of man I am in my real life,

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 never father a brood instead of producing their own young they find their reproductive reward in helping to raise their younger brothers and sisters

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