Quotes About Pensive

It is not altogether shyness that now makes me unsuccessful in company. Sometimes it is a state of mind that is three parts meditation, that will not free the thoughts until their attendant trains are prepared to follow them.

It's how I fill the time when nothing's happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.

brooding only feeds the strange pleasure of melancholy...

I'm not laughing. I'm not laughing at all. I'm doing the other thing.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.

There are days when I'm alone with my thoughts, which is to say, not alone enough.

And in the outer islands she found, I think, a Hawaii more to her liking—not the Babbitty boosters and country-club racists of Honolulu. In snapshots from those jaunts, she looked like a stranger: not Mom but some pensive, stylish lady in a sleeveless turquoise shift, alone with her thoughts in the middle distance—a Joan Didion character, it seems now, walking barefoot, sandals in hand, past a shaggy wall of shorefront pines. Didion, I later learned, was her favorite writer.

gloomy, pensive, discontented temper This melancholy flatters, but unmans you; What is it else but penury of soul, A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind? —JOHN DRYDEN AT

quieter and more intense

Why are you sad?

There was only one thing he

There's a strong melancholic streak in me.

I had never been much for outdoor activities.

I try not to be overly analytical.

Beautiful day for a funeral, I thought.

Arctic snatched the last bright green drink from a passing tray and stared into it gloomily.

I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof

somewhere. Then he turned serious.

Ay me! sad hours seem long.

then found a bench in a

Once in a while, groundless melancholy would darken my face, a dull and incomprehensible nostalgia for times never experienced would invade me.

Every day it will be the same thing: at dusk I begin to feel melancholy and pensive.

Don't you think there's a sinister emptiness in everything? Yes, there is. While we wait for the heart to understand.