Quotes About Contemplation

The Fury of Sunsets" Something cold is in the air, an aura of ice and phlegm. All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it. The horizon bleeds and sucks its thumb. The little red thumb goes out of sight. And I wonder about this lifetime with myself, this dream I'm living. I could eat the sky like an apple but I'd rather ask the first star: why am I here? why do I live in this house? who's responsible? eh?

Well, my rationalization for today is that if "an intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself" the same could be said for masturbation or even better for suicide

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

I am God, la de dah.

But it was easier, somehow, to reflect on them all from a distance than to be struggling for room in their midst.

We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand.

Alone, we are alive.

Fürchterliche Ungewissheit? Fürchterlich nur so lange, als wir ihr nicht ins Auge zu blicken vermögen.

Sometimes I wonder why I write down all these memories. Would I want to give them to strangers to read?

She laughed—and then stopped.

Have you looked in the mirror lately?" asked Bean.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.

Do you want to just let it all out, or are you thinking of what to do about it next?

Backcasting and premortems complement each other. Backcasting imagines a positive future; a premortem imagines a negative future. We can't create a complete picture without representing both the positive space and the negative space. Backcasting reveals the positive space. Premortems reveal the negative space. Backcasting is the cheerleader; a premortem is the heckler in the audience.

Aujourd'hui si noir (mais pensais-je le garder un an ?).

Avant-hier soir, en me couchant : si S. est venu souvent ces derniers temps, ce n'est pas à cause de son départ, mais parce qu'une « autre maîtresse » était en vacances. Pensée aussitôt glaçante, qui remet tout en cause. Elle ne réussit pas, cependant, à devenir certitude, comme d'autres, parfois.

Soir, 10 h 30. Le présent, voilà, mou, indistinct : la rencontre est terminée. Il était à Rome, Florence ! Et Avignon au retour. Qu'en conclure ? Pur hasard, ou bien désir de connaître ce que je connais aussi

Jeudi est loin, si loin, et il n'appelle jamais. Il va falloir rompre, ma vie est trop stupide. Mais pour qui est-ce que je bronze

I've got something so lovely to think about that I'd like to go back and sit down in the garden, and just think and think until dark without being interrupted by anybody.

I like being able to go to the cinema and sit and spend time observing something without thinking about plot or what one character is saying. I feel like I'm able to connect on a much more profound level.

I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.