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Quotes Tagged "pensive"

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 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Tags: wise-man, wisdom, wandering, thought, sorrow, silence, restlessness, pensive, peace, loner, loneliness, life, faces, face, expression, enlightenment, brooding
the opium-eater cannot present himself in the character of l'Allegro: even then, he speaks and thinks as becomes Il Penseroso.
— Thomas de Quincey Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Analects from John Paul Richter
Tags: wisdom, sage, pensive, happiness
All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent
— steinbeck
Tags: worry, thought, spirituality, pensive, anxiety
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