Pensive Quotes
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Pensive Quotes & Sayings
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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
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place.
— William Wordsworth
What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.
— Michael Ondaatje
Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
— Roland Barthes
The misapprehension about me is that I am some loud, rampant maniac. I am actually very pensive and quiet.
— Brian Blessed
Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless.
— Nelson DeMille
It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.
— Piero Scaruffi
If I ever went to Paris,' said Francis, unexpectedly pensive, 'I think I would be very happy ...
— Jack Kerouac
Altar to God is the human mind. To "desecrate the altar" is to fill it with non-loving thoughts.
— Marianne Williamson
With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.
— John Milton
These words were utter'd in a pensive mood, Even while mine eyes were on that solemn sight:
— William Wordsworth
this whale carries the everlasting mail!
— Herman Melville
It's now the British Muse's fables That lie on maidens' bedside tables And haunt their dreams. They worship now The Vampire with his pensive brow,
— Alexander Pushkin
Just had lunch with the president who seems pensive, slightly deflated, realistic, aggravated and resolute. Didn't eat his pie.
— Katie Couric
Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.
— John Keats
Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.
— Honore De Balzac
A pensive personality and ambivalent attitude towards power and money can cause other people to take a high production or creative person for granted.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
— Madame De Stael
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
Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!
— William Wordsworth
Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.
— George Washington
Victory is in our hands! It's time for our legends to begin! Don't tremble, and don't you dare cry! Come on, show some energy!
— Nobuyuki Fukumoto
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
While pensive poets painful vigils keep,Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. — Alexander Pope
All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent
— John Steinbeck
Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.
— Benjamin Disraeli
He doesn't love me yet, but in this place of death, in this precious moment of shared relief, he holds me.
— Rae Carson
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 solitude
— William Wordsworth
It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.
— Oscar Wilde
