Top 30 Quotes About Ruminate: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Ruminate

#1. It's one thing to ruminate, but another to enunciate.

#2. Every night there is something to ruminate on. The vagrant mind knows no boundaries. It leaps

#3. I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.

Michel De Montaigne

#4. What had really given birth to the Romantic Movement in the history of human ideas was affluence - an increase in the number of people who had plenty enough to eat, enough education to read and write, and time to ruminate on their own personal emotions.

Anne Rice

#5. Why does one ruminate about the past? He is treating his wounded egoism.

Dada Bhagwan

#6. People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

Emile Chartier

#7. After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages.

Walter Dean Myers

#8. I would rather raise certain topics and maybe let you ruminate on them. I'm not big on answering them.

Harlan Coben

#9. Reading a book, and taking the time to ruminate and make inferences and engage the imaginational processing, is more cognitively enriching, without a doubt, than the short little bits that you might get if you're into the 30-second digital mode.

Ken Pugh

#10. He doesn't know where he is. He thinks this is his normal life. I don't have time to ruminate about how depressing it is that my brother can't tell the different between normalcy and eternal damnation.

Cynthia Hand

#11. . I want to say many things I must omit. It is not fit to wake the soul by tender strokes of art, or to ruminate upon happiness we might enjoy, lest absences become intolerable.

David McCullough

#12. Be a true romantic. Always ruminate about the true beauty of life.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.

Anais Nin

#14. Speak to me as to thy thinking
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
The worst of words ...

William Shakespeare

#15. We don't ruminate during a fight. Maybe in a bath, or driving a car, or as we take a walk. But not right smack in the middle of a dramatic moment.

Dani Shapiro

#16. Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on.

Marc Maron

#17. Go a little easier on yourself, and in so doing, be prepared to make and do things that might seem silly at first. Just keep moving: don't ruminate and stare at the wall. Don't just play with your phone: go out and produce something.

Merlin Mann

#18. Sealed off from enchantment, the modern buffered self is also sealed off from significance, left to ruminate in a stew of its own ennui.

James K.A. Smith

#19. I have tremendous empathy for people who are faced with any kind of a chronic problem. Sometimes when we're in this situation, it's as though our mind has us believe that if we ruminate about the pain we'll find a way out.

Cheryl Richardson

#20. I soon realized that what I really wanted was time to ruminate, time to observe, and often time to be alone.

Miss Read

#21. To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.

Thomas Browne

#22. The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#23. The memory is perpetually looking back when we have nothing present to entertain us. It is like those repositories in animals that are filled with food, on which they may ruminate when their present pastures fail.

Joseph Addison

#24. How human, to ruminate even when in mortal danger

Gregory Benford

#25. Anyone can get a degree or a certificate in something. Big deal. A piece of paper from a university somewhere doesn't define a person. It won't tell you who I am.

Rachel Gibson