Ruminating Quotes

“By mentally retracing our steps or ruminating on lost opportunities, we may try to rewrite the past to heighten our idealized self-image, but we might succumb to useless suffering from pride and vanity. ("Esprit d’escalier" - " Staircase Wit")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Let us break the wall of ruminating silence and celebrate! Throwing a party is taking revenge on life's desolation and captivating the sound of a new morning. ("'Is that all there is ?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“What are you going to do? she asks.

Not dwell. Move forward.

What are you really going to do?

Stare at spoons.”
― Weike Wang, Chemistry

“Although certainly, dwelling on problems doesn't solve them. Although on the other hand, thinking positively about problems also doesn't solve them. But at least then you feel positive, which is, or should be, you know, empowering.”
― George Saunders, Pastoralia

“Then we run our little boat into some quiet nook, and the tent is pitched, and the frugal supper cooked and eaten. Then the big pipes are filled and lighted, and the pleasant chat goes round in musical undertone; while, in the pauses of our talk, the river, playing round the boat, prattles strange old tales and secrets, sings low the old child’s song that it has sung so many thousand years—will sing so many thousand years to come, before its voice grows harsh and old—a song that we, who have learnt to love its changing face, who have so often nestled on its yielding bosom, think, somehow, we understand, though we could not tell you in mere words the story that we listen to”
― Jerome K Jerome

“You won't stress over it unless you care.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“Perhaps he is one of those people who are able to go through life step by step, for whom what happens, happens, and that is that. For whom today is uncontaminated by yesterday.”
― Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness

“Life's easier when you can write off others as monsters, as demons, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared. The thing is, you cant do that without becoming them, just a little.”
― Jim Butcher, White Night