Quotes About Contemplation

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.

I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.

We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.

I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.

To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.

I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious

I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.

I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.

As long as one can think as an outsider, an observer apart from the conflict, there is hope for a resolving thought.

He who understands humanity seeks solitude

Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

One of the troubles with humanity is that it is oftimes too lazy to do its own thinking.

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

I sometimes wonder if necrophiliacs are really into dead people or if they just enjoy the quiet.

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

What year did Jesus think it was?

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

I tried to think but nothing happened!

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.