Top Pensive Quotes

All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent

...that this monster, who is only one in form, has a heart so humane that he should not be persecuted for a deformity which he refrains from rendering more hideous by his actions...

Pensive Definition

(a.) Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.

(a.) Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.

I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence.