Quotes About Pondering

As the late John Keel said, "To hell with the answer. What is the question?"     Alien

How human, to ruminate even when in mortal danger

The questions buzzed and swarmed in my whirling mind.

I have always worried about things more than I should.

I've never worried about life's big questions.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Is anything worth it?

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

The air is full of ideas,

Love without philosophizing is like having a quick coffee.

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

I'm not sure what there is to say. Everything? Or nothing.

When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.", Chapter 7

But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'

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

I think the damned souls in hell must spend half their time wondering what it was that they really meant to do.

It takes time, or does time take it?

What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

She remembered—oh, she could not stop remembering.

My family, I thought them to be, for such was my quest—a family I could stand alongside pondering the sea. We stood as the blue water surged toward us in six-foot coils.

way." The giant scratched his head and looked doubtful.

Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems.

One wondering thought pollutes the day