Pensive Quotes
32 Pensive quotes by 29 unique authors
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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.
— John Milton
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Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
— Roland Barthes
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Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.
— John Milton
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The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night…
— Emily Bronte
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Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off…
— Celia Thaxter
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Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place.
— William Wordsworth
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The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and graceful horn of pearl... The glorious thing about him was his eye. There was a faint…
— T.H. White
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Just had lunch with the president who seems pensive, slightly deflated, realistic, aggravated and resolute. Didn't eat his pie.
— Katie Couric
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Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least for a laugh. But the…
— Faith Prince
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Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be seen So gradual the Grace…
— Emily Dickinson
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Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!
— William Wordsworth
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I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.
— Bob Dylan
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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…
— Jewel
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For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of…
— William Wordsworth
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Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.
— John Keats
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Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early…
— Oscar Wilde
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You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house-- , and you almost stepped…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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You should always aim to be your own mouse, Lieam. In fact...you already are. You are not so quick to jump into danger as Saxon…
— David Petersen
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ʺYour hair was beautiful too. All of you. You were amazing when we first met, and somehow, inexplicably, youʹve come even farther. Youʹve always been…
— Richelle Mead
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What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.
— Michael Ondaatje
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very…
— Carson McCullers
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
— Alexander Pope
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Rightly tired of the pain İ hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why... If İ could end it, İ…
— Stephen King
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I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me,…
— Maureen Johnson
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