Pensive Quotes

32 quotes by 29 authors

What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. — Michael Ondaatje
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
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. — Alexander Pope
Rightly tired of the pain Ä° hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why... If Ä° could end it, Ä°… — Stephen King
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
Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless. — Nelson DeMille
When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like… — Khushwant Singh
He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away; when the stars, one by one, tremble through Ã¦ther, and are reflected… — Ann Radcliffe
I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery and intrigue, an escape for my boyish mind. — Drummond Money-Coutts
Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with… — Leon Foucault
Before marriage a woman is pensive, after marriage, expensive — Samuel Johnson
She wonders how long have we been senseless so tired and pensive instead of stand up stand to the side feel a strong a resistant. — Quicksand

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