“The selfish smiling fool, and the sullen frowning fool, shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod.”
William Blake
“I don't like half smiles...they make me wonder where the other half is”
Gemimah S. Colliwald Cornilia*
“Wise thoughts are the millet mixed with ash that we pick from the trough of life.”
Mariana Fulger
“No longer mourn for me when I am deadThan you shall hear the surly sullen bellGive warning to the world that I am fledFrom this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.”
William Shakespeare
“Haply I think on thee, and then my state,Like to the lark at break of day arisingFrom sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;For thy sweet love remembered such wealth bringsThat then I scorn to change my state with kings.”
“Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.”
“Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.”
Willa Sibert Cather
