Quotes About Rumination

The most feared thing should be death, but after a lot of rumination, I have settled to fear incessant pain. It is not a 'screaming hysterically' kind of fear but a silently lurking one.

Thought tends to collect in pools.

Dwelling. Miles repeated the word to himself. It was a strange word.

Mr. Shelton thought for a moment.

No, said Arthur, no, he added thoughtfully. No, he added again, even more thoughtfully. What? he said at last.

She paused for a moment, turning things over in her mind.

The hardest part of anything in life is thinking about it.

Are you the same? Is it only afterward that you think of what you should have said, the killer response,the put-down that would make them stay put down?

When I get thinking, I get very knotted up. I chew things over a lot and take things quite seriously.

She was thinking. i could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother for her.

apropos of nothing.

Hugh sought the right words. It's just that... He pushed his hair back. And then he sighed. I feel that if one is properly living life...an excess of rumination and metaphor can put you at a remove from all that's beautiful about it. If one takes advantage of all the senses - breathing, feeling, seeing... touching...tasting... he tried not to look at Lillias ...then merely being alive is poetry.

I feel that if one is properly living life . . . an excess of rumination and metaphor can put you at a remove from all that's beautiful about it. If one takes advantage of all the senses—breathing, feeling, seeing . . . touching . . . tasting . . ." he tried not to look at Lillias ". . . then merely being alive is poetry.

Every thought is an afterthought.

Faria Kazi heard them and thought of

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

Wondering is a positive madness.

O ythgimla, pleh esoht ni deen.

There is a place in the world, I believe, for thought.

It's my own conscience that gets to me more so than anybody thinking about me. I think too much.

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.

Depression affects not only mood but the nature and content of thought as well. Thinking processes almost always slow down, and decisiveness is replaced by indecision and rumination. The ability to concentrate is usually greatly impaired and willful action and thought become difficult if not impossible.

William Roberts

However, by Sunday noon--not coincidentally, the unhappiest hour in America--you may have run through your options and wind up slumped on a couch, suffering from the Sabbath existential crisis. It's at just such unfocused, unproductive times, says Csikszentmihalyi, that "people start ruminating and feeling that their lives are wasted and so forth.