Quotes About Pondering

I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I wonder: are they dreams of fish, or fish who dream?

Any serious pondering of all of life through the Golden Rule is dangerous for our moral health because it will summon us — I know I feel this way just writing the above paragraphs — to live under the King and as one of his kingdom citizens.

he learned anew how slowly time could crawl when there was some misery to dwell on.

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Does killing time damage eternity?

For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]

Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.

I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn't have enough energy to do anything else.

When I was in Canada, I had a lot of time to think.

We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.

I spend a fair amount of time just thinking about whether something is feasible or not, and if it is feasible, whether it's really worth doing.

I'm trying to think of the last time I had onions.

Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.

How slow and still the time did drag along.

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course It could be done.

So the tiresome minutes and decades of minutes dragged away, until at last our tense forms filmed over with a dulled consciousness

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

My pipe was ready and would have been lit, if I had not been lost in thinking

seemed like a vast warty bug taking a meditative walk.

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The ruminations are mine, let the world be yours.

Here then—the aftermath of meaning.

To remember a day would take a day. To remember a year would take a year.