Pensive Quotes

“You appear to be a mass of contradictions," Dr Washburn said. "There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, yet you rarely give vent to the anger that pain must provoke.”

“You appear to be a mass of contradictions," Dr Washburn said. "There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, yet you rarely give vent to the anger that pain must provoke.”

“The most beautiful sunset is the one which suddenly appears in front of you while you are walking pensively!”

“A part of my appreciation for the good which moments bring has come from awareness and recognition. But it has also come from a correspnding sadness which arises from their passing. When something that can never quite be reenacted comes to an end (and all moments are that way), I feel a pensiveness within. This pensiveness gives my life a quality that might be best described as bittersweet. And those moments take on double meaning and richness - because they are here now - and because they will not always be.”

“Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.”

“While pensive poets painful vigils keep,Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.”

“Seeing the skylines The heart becomes pensive and still; Mammoth is the world,Our existence…almost nil!”

“"How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."”

“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 diffident others again are plain honest and upright.”

“A pensive personality and ambivalent attitude towards power and money can cause other people to take a high production or creative person for granted.”

“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 him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.”