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Quotes About Pondering

Casi siempre lo mejor de la vida consistía en no hacer nada en absoluto, en pasar el rato reflexionando, rumiando sobre ello. Quiero decir que pongamos que uno comprende que todo es absurdo, entones no puede ser tan absurdo porque uno es consciente de que es absurdo y la conciencia de ellos es lo que le otorga sentido. ¿Me entienden? Es un pesimismo optimista.
~ Charles Bukowski
In her heart, though, she wondered, Is anything remembered forever?
~ Charles Frazier
Um. Oh dear." "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" "I don't know. Are you thinking, goats are kind of like sheep with bad attitude? I'm not a fucking chupacabra, man.
~ Charles Stross
Obierika was a man who thought about things.
~ Chinua Achebe
I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.
~ Adam Savage
I am freighted with thought.
~ Thoreau
It's how I fill the time when nothing's happening, thinking too much, flirting with melancholy
~ Tim Winton
No, of course not,' he agreed in a tone that implied he'd heard both the words I'd said and the words I hadn't said and would be mulling them over later on his own.
~ Timothy Zahn
Perhaps," Thrawn said. "Still, it would be wise to think on it, General.
~ Timothy Zahn
But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.
~ Toni Morrison
Come see, I was thinking. Be the last thing you behold
~ Toni Morrison
I thought about chops. I thought about chops.
~ Toni Morrison
There is really nothing more to say—except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
~ Toni Morrison
Ik deed mijn nachtlampje uit en kroop onder mijn dekbed. Wat was eigenlijk erger? Gek zijn of echt terug in de tijd springen? Vermoedelijk het laatste, dacht ik. Tegen dat andere kon je misschien nog wel een pilletje slikken.
~ Kerstin Gier
I was thinking about all these things and more, but I wasn't really thinking about them at all. They were just there, floating around in the back of my mind, thinking about themselves. What I was really thinking about, of course, was Lucas.
~ Kevin Brooks
Ironically, the best questions are not questions that lead to answers, because answers are on their way to becoming cheap and plentiful. A good question is worth a million good answers. A
~ Kevin Kelly
Life is running backwards. What did I do wrong?
~ Kiana Davenport
Osaka: Ah Get to ponderin' when Christmas rolls around. Y'all know Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer? That's messed up, y'know? Saying his nose will help light the way at night ain't no way t'make him feel better about it. If you told a bald fella you needed the light reflecting off his head to see, he'd like to punch you. Santa's a cruel bully.
~ Kiyohiko Azuma
These are presumably the thoughts that made him restless.
~ Carlo Cercignani
Aristotle is the first we are aware of to have asked himself the question "What is time?," and he came to the following conclusion: time is the measurement of change.
~ Carlo Rovelli
She wondered if she was in the midst of an anecdote that, for reasons of proximity, she was not yet able to perceive.
~ Carrie Fisher
Do chickens have lips?
~ George Noory
The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what should I do? — with an answer taking shape: nothing.
~ George Perec
Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.
~ George R.R. Martin