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Quotes About Pensive

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
~ George Ade
I do a lot of reflection. I do. I spend a lot of time in reflection and contemplation. I guess the way the old mystics used to do. I don't do meditation. That's not for me. It's not my thing.
~ Caroline Myss
HE TURNED AROUND AND LOOKED BACK down the empty church
~ Sidney Sheldon
Loneliness is not the enemy of your joy as long as you know how you should always destroy the pensive mood that remains with you like a friend who never stands up for you when you're forced to bend
~ Munia Khan
Cinnamon Girl" wasn't right for this day, for this time, for what was about to happen. If he were to have music, he thought, maybe Shostakovich, a few measures from the Lyric Waltz in Jazz Suite Number 2. Something sweet, yet pensive, with a taste of tragedy; Qatar was an intellectual, and he knew his music.
~ John Sandford
I've been thinking." Ben stopped Nikolas trying to straighten his wayward tie. Nikolas shook Ben's hands off and continued what he was doing with a frown. "This is hardly the time to start a new hobby.
~ John Wiltshire
Just at the moment, her life seemed oddly thin
~ Eloisa James
He comes with western winds, with evening's wandering airs, With that clear dusk of heaven that brings the thickest stars; Winds take a pensive tone and stars a tender fire And visions rise and change which kill me with desire
~ Emily Jane Bront
You sure do look forlorn,
~ Barbara O'Connor
I don't want to think about or start thinking about figuring out my life, for whatever it's worth.
~ Barry Lyga
I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
~ Kate Bush
I always say I want to look haunted.
~ Kristen Wiig
I am one of the haunted.
~ Rosie O'Donnell
leaning with her back bowed into the back of the chair, her head hanging down and her hands in her lap, very miserable as she would say herself, not even knowing what she would like, except to go out and get very wet, catch a particularly nice cold and have to go to bed and take gruel.
~ George MacDonald
What is your name? Again sir, that is no concern of yours. A mystery, he said. I shall have to call you Clorinda. ..... Judith! What the devil? exclaimed Peregrine. Has there been an accident? Judith, repeated the gentleman of the curricle pensively. I prefer Clorinda.
~ Georgette Heyer
I'm a Gemini and I have a lot of different moods. Sometimes I'm very serious and introspective and pensive, but other times I'm completely goofy and girlie. So, I like my songs to cover all my moods.
~ Jewel
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.
~ Victor Hugo
My pipe was ready and would have been lit, if I had not been lost in thinking
~ Mark Twain
I'm twenty years old and look at me-- there isn't a thing I want to do
~ Markus Zusak
Don't I ever do anything else but take soulful walks down the Bayswater Road, I thought, as I walked soulfully down the Baywater Road.
~ Martin Amis
Ah! Yo no soy más que un estudioso..., un soñador. No soy capaz de explicar las cosas prácticas de la vida.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
She wasn't a woman who smiled and said hello.
~ Arundhati Roy
He stood mumbling for a moment
~ Atul Gawande
I'll serve something black. Bean soup, licorice, coffee. It'll be very grim, I promise. We'll cover the mirrors. We'll listen to Piaf. We'll read passages from Dostoyevsky.
~ Stephanie Kallos