Pensive Mood Quotes

She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.

Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the apple trees?

The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?" and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about.

In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by.

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.

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

Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about that game, but I don't remember when it happened last.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

Just had lunch with the president who seems pensive, slightly deflated, realistic, aggravated and resolute. Didn't eat his pie.

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place.

I did read all my old diaries and was quite surprised by the overwhelming melancholic tone. I remember things being rosier than they really were.

Melancholy is kind of sweet sometimes, I think. It's not a negative thing. It's not a mean thing. It's just something that happens in life, like autumn.

November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. "That's the reason I was born in it," observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.

I am a melancholy type of person.

'Break of Dawn,' musically, is still soulful and eclectic, but I think I opened up a little bit more vocally. It's a little more intimate. It's a little more sensual than before - and pensive.

Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits.

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.

All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.

The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.