Quotes About Rumination

Of course, he was absolutely correct, it was no concern of mine. So naturally I thought about it--excessively.

Voilà que ça prend aux Ubacs, se murmure-t-elle.

Well, that's what they said. (It could have just been indigestion, though.)

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

She gave me the serious goldfish face, then went back to staring at her dress.

You've been thinking and I've been drinking.

thoughts, he paused using a

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

Inside every pause lived a contemplation

Most of the class was in deep thought.

Since sport was what he had been brooding

They shouldn't look out the window when they hear shit," Ron Minelli says. "But that was probably her whole life. She probably spent her whole day looking out the window.

I wish I did not think about it so much, he thought.

So we sat and thought deeply for awhile.

So he just sits here staring into his beer.

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.

As we saw in chapter 5, research on schoolyard and workplace bullying shows that people who ruminate about getting even, rather than letting it go, suffer negative effects including anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.

them. Thoughts were

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson or Joseph Conrad. It's a glimpse of eternity. It invites rumination, the relentless whisper of the tide against the shore.

If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last week or might happen in the coming week. And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, piling up my woes and sprawling on them like a dragon on a hoard.

If you're constantly ruminating about what you just did- or what you should have done- or what you would have done if you only had the chance, you will miss your life. Ok, you will fail to connect with it. You will fail to connect with other people.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.