Quotes About Rumination

I get re-pissed about an old sitatution whenever I start thinking about it again.

of them gave those thoughts a second consideration

A penny for your thought.

looking back at him

He'd made himself smile with all the rumination. He really ought to lighten up more, Lucas thought, as the last of the Corvettes went past. Hell, what are a couple more killers in a lifetime full of them? And he liked hunting, and what better day to do it than a fine blue day in the autumn of the year, with not a cloud in the heavens, when riding through a singularly beautiful tract of country, in a Porsche with the top down? Fuck a bunch of E. A. Poe. And his Raven.

overthinking things is a hobby of mine. I'm the first to admit I'm weird

Worry and Rumination are the foes of being in the present moment. If you living in the past or the future... you can't fully embrace the present moment.

I can't stop thinking like this.

When we ruminate, we become fruitlessly preoccupied with the fact that we are unhappy and with the causes, meanings, and consequences of our unhappiness.

escribir siempre sería una renuncia. Un exilio. Una manera de fingir que uno sale al encuentro del otro cuando en realidad rumia, digiere, regurgita, mastica, relame, traga, se nutre, defeca sus propias e intransferibles palabras...

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

They always talk who never think.

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And I said, 'I'm thinkin' I've wasted too much time thinkin', is what I'm thinkin'.

Michael Dahl

we're all thinkin' it.

Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.

a considerable

The mind is like a lowrider, not all the wheels of thinking move normally with the effect of spinning wheels, karmic, deja vu rumination of thought, moving in one direction, then in another. Thinking is like a machine, bouncing forward. With neon illuminated holiness.

What a datum! I couldn't help thinking over and over.

We are hardwired to remember negative events over positive ones, so we ruminate on our mistakes and the slights of others. Our ability to use language means that we can spend hours mentally criticizing what we did in the past or worrying about what we'll do in the future. No wonder we love dogs, who don't need meditation retreats to get over the shame of getting into the garbage last Thursday.

head, and then

Left-brain dissociation is obsessiveness. Commonly, this ranges in severity from dwelling on a singular worry… to repetitively cycling through a list of worries… to panicky drasticizing and catastrophizing. This type of dissociation from internal pain strands the survivor in unhelpful ruminations about issues that are unrelated or minimally related to the true nature of her suffering.