Quotes About Contemplation

I always say a film should be given breathing space.

Over the years you just pick up inspiration and ideas bubble away in my mind.

I'm much more Buddhist. I mean, I'm not a Buddhist. I should be so lucky to be a Buddhist, a real Buddhist, but of all the things I investigated, that seems to make the most sense to me.

What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I haven't decided yet.

The practice days, the walkthroughs, the bus rides - all those things you can't come back to. When you are getting into Year 15, you think about it. This thing is going to come to an end at some point.

To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.

I do think that people have moments of realisation in real life - even if it's on their death beds - when they suddenly think, 'Jesus - what did I do?'

It would be presumptuous to say writing a book would be a sufficient gesture, but if people were more preoccupied with the past, maybe the events that overwhelm us would be fewer.

I walk slowly into myself, through a forest of empty suits of armor.

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

After much inner debate, I can safely proclaim that Mungo Jerry's 'In the Summertime' may, in fact, be the best song ever recorded.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

I often think to myself, at the end of an interesting life it's maybe not such a bad thing to spend your last days with your friends sitting by the blue, blue ocean reliving the story of your life while sitting in the dangerous sun.

Spend as much time as you can in silence. Look at the way the sun paints the ground gold.

I feel extraordinarily peaceful when I'm watching the sun set.

I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things.

Sunday, I go to church; I take the day off. I rest.

Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing.

I don't much care for the sunlight or bright colours of any kind.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

I believe that looking at the sunset or the city's landscape helps me think.

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.