Quotes About Contemplation

They were learning how to perform their privacy.

Away acrost his valley he sees Black Mountain rising jagged to the sky...and if he looks to the left on past it, he sees all the furtherest ranges, line on line. Purple and blue and blue again and smoky until you can't tell the mountains apart from the sky. Lord, it'll make a man think something, seeing that. It'll make a man think deep.

The evidence of my life lay before me, and I was unconvinced.

He stood and nodded at the great whitening sky. "We're sure small, wouldn't you say? Takes the onus off, somehow.

The man on the water stood forty yards out.

Make of that what you will.

I don't remember lighting this cigarette and I don't remember if I'm here alone or waiting for someone.

To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, firsthand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses. And if we doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to these senses such as the existence of god or of the soul or similar things over which there is always dispute and contention

True, we might never have arrived, but the fact is we did. If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worth worrying about so much.

The sky was black and strewn with stars. I felt alone on the planet. I was so scared I could hardly breathe. I didn't know where I was headed. I didn't know what to do with my life. I strained to look into my future, trying to picture the road ahead of me, searching for a glimpse of who I would become. All I could see was the night sky and the stars above me.

You're thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk.

People who don't think shouldn't talk.

She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies...

Well that's it: if you don't think, you shouldn't talk!

So she was considering, in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up

I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.

Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what

It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and there was silence for some minutes.

And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him)

Alice 'without pictures or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking

Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin.' For