Quotes About Rumination

conflicts in relationships—having an annoying office mate or room-mate, or having chronic conflict with your spouse—is one of the surest ways to reduce your happiness. You never adapt to interpersonal conflict;45 it damages every day, even days when you don't see the other person but ruminate about the conflict nonetheless.

tried not to think about it, the more he actually thought about it. And the more he actually thought

A variant of "Psychiatry" is "Archaeology" (title by courtesy of Dr. Norman Reider of San Francisco), in which the patient takes the position that if she can only find out who had the button, so to speak, everything will suddenly be all right. This results in a continual rumination over childhood happenings.

I've always reflected on the game.

I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection.

another long think. Then she said, "Can

Once you start worrying, it's hard to stop.

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

The reason people get lost in thought is that it's unfamiliar territory.

You can't think about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.

All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.

How come you're staring at your drink?

Happy people have the ability to distract themselves and move on, whereas unhappy people get stuck ruminating and make themselves more and more miserable.

The absurdly talented George Bernard Shaw—a world-class writer and a founder of the London School of Economics—noted this thought deficit many years ago. "Few people think more than two or three times a year," Shaw reportedly said. "I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week." We too try to think once.

Meretzky suggests that you consider the following:

Think until it hurts.

and Andy, gloomy and self-devouring, sat at his desk and chewed the cud of memory.

She gave this some thought. "Oh,

continued staring

had enough time to think about it.

Wakeful nights often give people useless thoughts.

Not only were the books lost and the thoughts in the books, but what was to him, perhaps, the most searching loss of all, the hours of rumination which lifted him above himself and bore him upon their muffled and enormous wings. Not a day passed but he was reminded of some single volume, or of a series of works, whose very positions on the walls was so clearly indented in his mind.

writers—like insomniacs—are so accident-prone, so obsessed with the calculus of bad luck and missed opportunities, so liable to rumination and a concomitant inability to let go of a subject, even when urged repeatedly to do so.

This is in my opinion why writers—like insomniacs—are so accident-prone, so obsessed with the calculus of bad luck and missed opportunities, so liable to rumination and a concomitant inability to let go of a subject, even when urged repeatedly to do so.