Quotes About Pondering

Exactly why we survive and can look back with furrowed brow is beyond me.

Did you know humans are the only creatures alive that know about death?

L'altro tizio era ricoperto di sangue?". "Quasi certamente sì. Tu cosa ne pensi?". Morse annuì. "Magari accidentale?". "Accidentalmente intenzionale. Morse, segnati queste parole".

Okay Libya...got all this stuff twirling around in my head

Priest came with soggy offerings of comfort. God is the most uninteresting answer to the most interesting questions.

Gardiner, he thinks. It may not be proper to call

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Raising awareness. It's a good thing. Makes people think twice.

Who knew what she would have done really;

Can we have one day when we don't have to talk about the meaning of life? -I don't think we ever talk about anything else.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own thoughts and see how long it takes you to get to a thousand.

slowing down an activity may meet with greater success than doing it quickly.

She stuck her tongue in her cheek, thinking.

Generals have gone to war with far less deliberation than she gave to the choice between the pear tart or the vanilla soufflé.

I think that 'Prayers' is a really interesting one because we wrote it well before the border crisis was happening, and in that first verse, I was actually writing about the experience of me and my wife's relationship and finding someone who you feel safe with and you relate to and can ponder existence with.

I found myself pondering as I drove, which is never a great idea in Miami's rush-hour traffic, and at the intersection of Le Jeune I very nearly plowed into a Jaguar whose driver had made the perfectly reasonable decision to turn left from the center lane. I swerved around it at the last second, earning myself a loud and operatic chorus of horns and bad words in three languages. I supposed it served me right for criticizing Rita's driving. Somehow

How could I be thinking such absurdities?

the gift from Vergennes, staring

stood as she left the table, and wondered if three

I don't know," sighed

was asking himself long before he'd

The moments that led up to me fell into place as though decreed. Which, I guess, is why I think about them so much.

An empty space is a space for questions, not for answers. And what we don't know is infinite.