Quotes About Contemplation

I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.

I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.

You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles.

I could see every pebble on the path, and every blade of grass, by that splendid moon.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

The longer he stood, the plainer his reflections revealed their blackness through his features.

Deixe-me a sós, que preciso pensar; enquanto penso, não sofro...

Meu espírito nunca esteve mais próximo de Deus do que ao contemplar aquela perfeita imagem do repouso divino. Instintivamente, repeti as palavras que ela pronunciara, algumas horas antes: Incomparavelmente acima de todos nós — assim estava ela, Ainda na terra ou já no céu, o seu espírito já está unido a Deus!

Un homme sensé doit trouver une compagnie suffisante en soi-même.

Un hombre sensato debe tener bastante compañía consigo mismo

Razborit ?ovjek mora na?i dovoljno društva u samom sebi.

Un hombre sensato debe encontrar suficiente compañía en sí mismo.

Un hombre sensato debe tener bastante compañía consigo mismo. -¡Magnífica compañía- murmuró Heathcliff [...]

My poor little sister-in-law is breaking her heart by mere contemplation of your physical and moral beauty.

Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves, or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

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

I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still.

The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.

I never spoke — unless addressed — And then, 'twas brief and low — I could not bear to live — aloud — The Racket shamed me so — And if it had not been so far — And any one I knew Were going — I had often thought How noteless — I could die —

I read my sentence - steadily . . .

The thought is quiet as a flake, —