Pensive Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old pensive quotes, pensive sayings, and pensive proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

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
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty. Mason Cooley
What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Michael Ondaatje
There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much. Mother Teresa
Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless. Nelson DeMille
Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness. Rebecca Solnit
Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks. Roland Barthes
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
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. Thomas Huxley
There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being. Walter Raleigh
Meeting important emotional needs creates the feeling of love, but thoughtfulness keeps it alive. Willard F. Harley
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
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place. William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. William Wordsworth
Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils. William Wordsworth
Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snowdrop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years! William Wordsworth
The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the 'love account. Zig Ziglar