ruminating Quotes

When I get thinking, I get very knotted up. I chew things over a lot and take things quite seriously.

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit." "Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark. "Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination - continually criticizing himself for past mistakes - continually condemning himself for past sins.

I can't stop thinking like this.

But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing

If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.

I would say I'm too guilty of dwelling on things too long.

One of the frustrations of having a mind trained to think and consider possibilities was that it couldn't simply be stopped once engaged.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.

I spent a lot of time dwelling on yesterday, and it did me no good.

There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires.

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

If you sit there and dwell on the fact that you did something... you will lose your mind.

Why are you doing this to yourself? When something bad happens, why do you have to pick at it until it bleeds all over again?

He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

In general, I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so they can haunt me for a disproportionate number of weeks to come. It's very healthy.

I can tend to over-think things.

There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy.

I don't think most analysts understand that whether I work a 70-hour week or an 80-hour week, I take my head with me when I go home.

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.