Sullen may refer to:
- Sullens, Swiss municipality
- Sullen River, Russian novel (see Угрюм-река (книга)) named after the Nizhnyaya Tunguska River in Siberia, Russia
- Squire Sullen and Kate Sullen, fictional characters in the 1707 comedy play The Beaux' Stratagem
Famous quotes containing the word sullen:
“Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Now Air is hush’d, save where the weak-ey’d Bat,
With short shrill Shriek flits by on leathern Wing,
Or where the Beetle winds
His small but sullen Horn,”
—William Collins (1721–1759)
“There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)