Pensive Quotes

“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 wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“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 stars.”
― Khushwant Singh, Delhi

“What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The Cat's Table

“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 would. But İ can't.”
― stephen king, The Green Mile

“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, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Madness Underneath

“All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent”
― steinbeck

“Loneliness is not the enemy of your joy
as long as you know how you should always destroy
the pensive mood that remains with you like a friend
who never stands up for you when you’re forced to bend”
― Munia Khan

“By definition, you can’t experience your own death. Death is the end of consciousness. And consciousness persists. In the language of physics, consciousness is conserved.

I am the one who wakes up in the morning.

Always.

Every morning.

I don’t die.

I just become increasingly unlikely.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, Divided by Infinity

“My mother looked back at me while my father drove. Her long auburn hair was shimmering in the flickers of light passing through the window from the oncoming highway traffic. Looking at her I admired her flawless, pearlescent skin. Her hazel eyes were flecked with bits of blue and teal like a true Mer. My mother was beautiful, and I looked nothing like her.”
― Zara Steen

“It's an absurdity. An Alpha-decanted, Alpha-conditioned man would go mad if he had to do Epsilon Semi-moron work - go mad, or start smashing things up.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“What pensive people define as ‘lost’ is what bolder people define as ‘adventure’. The former remains huddled in their constricted boxes, while the latter tread the crest of horizons.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What if one were to dissolve into the wilderness like salt into water. He wants to go home. For the first time, Edwin begins to worry about his sanity.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“the opium-eater cannot present himself in the character of l'Allegro: even then, he speaks and thinks as becomes Il Penseroso.”
― Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Analects From John Paul Richter

“And you came home?
To die. Yes.
To die?
Yes. To die.”
― William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!

“The loud sounds of my mind
blind me every night.
I close my eyes to sleep on time
but the visions come alive.
They remind me of the scars and
the pain in my past life.
I try to move on but this
haunts me in the present time.
All I want is to sleep,
to snore it away, and dream.
But, the mind is a pool of chaos
in which I drown with every swim.
I want to feel better but it gets under my skin
and reminds me of a ship of hope that is about to sink.”
― Shillpi S Banerrji

“Hi, lover of the past. I remember your smile but have left your heart. You were a part of me but now you are a blurred vision of what I lost. I am happier without you and I can find my light in the dark.”
― Shillpi S Banerrji

“Draw the curtains and let them fall
cry your worries and let the fear stand tall.
Lie on the bed and throw the ash on the ground
and let the darkness surround.
Pull the plug before the sunrise brings false hope again and tries to take your pain away.
Curtains fall as the the scene ends
and disappears like happiness in the air.”
― Shillpi S Banerrji

“...that this monster, who is only one in form, has a heart so humane that he should not be persecuted for a deformity which he refrains from rendering more hideous by his actions...”
― Gabrielle Suzanne Barbot De Villeneuve

“It is our ‘fear of fear’ that is our greatest fear.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You let me go. Now, you stand there are watch me grow. I am a plant that needs sunlight, water, and love. It might take time to blossom but I am sure I will find someone who waters my soul. I hope you find your flower too and stop creating scars with thorns and give love a chance to grow.”
― Shillpi S Banerrji

“He wandered Comala's lonely streets, his footsteps scaring off dogs that were sniffing through the garbage.He made it as far as the river, where he passed the time staring at still pools of water that reflected the light of the stars falling from the heavens. He stayed for several hours, wrestling with his thoughts and tossing them into the black water of the river.”
― Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo