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.

Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity. Thomas Ken
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. Buddha
Whenever you are pensive. Just calm your heart and your mind. That's the only way out. Aaditya Ranjan Shrivastava
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires. Omar Khayyam
Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like, for his heart was meek and he always thought of others. Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others. Mother Teresa
The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes. Dejan Stojanovic
You can change your mood everyday but not with your feelings. Abhiyanda B.
Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference. D. Elton Trueblood
Every time you feel depressed about something, try to identify a corresponding negative thought you had just prior to and during the depression. Because these thoughts have actually created your bad mood, by learning to restructure them, you can change your mood. David D. Burns
If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk. Hippocrates
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead
If you're not in the mood, you can't do that stuff right. J.D. Salinger
Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions. Robert Breault
Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that. Daniel Kahneman
In reality, we live in every one. Deep down there is a rose in every heart. Amit Ray
When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart. Edwin Booth
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. Alexander Pope
This is the power of gathering it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful in a word, more alive. Alice Waters
Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon. Benjamin Disraeli
I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen. Bob Dylan
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
If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness. Confucius
The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mateless play. And, while the night is gathering grey, We'll talk its pensive hours away. Emily Bronte
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
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 are plain, honest, and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock. Henry Ward Beecher
Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts. Honoré de Balzac
Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes. John Keats
Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. John Milton
With cowslips wan that hangs the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears. John Milton