Quotes About Contemplation

Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said.

In this calm and stupid life, I never know how I should act.

Kalp düÅŸünebilseydi, atmaktan vazgeçerdi.

There's enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.

And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul – the intimate will to die, to finish, not to see more light over any city, not to think, not to feel, to leave behind like wrapping paper the course of the sun and the days, to rid myself, at the edge of the grand bed, as of a heavy suit, of the involuntary effort to be.

I believe in the World as in a daisy. Because I see it. But I don't think about it Because thinking is not understanding…

Pertenço a um gênero de portugueses Que depois de estar a Índia descoberta Ficaram sem trabalho. A morte é certa. Tenho pensado nisto muitas vezes.

I believe in the world as in a daisy, Because I see it. But I don't think about it, Because to think is to not understand. The world wasn't made for us to think about it (To think is to have eyes that aren't well) But to look at it and to be in agreement.

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

I placidly wait for what I don't know- My future and the future of everything. In the end there will only be silence except Where the waves of the sea bathe nothing.

É talvez o último dia da minha vida. Saudei o sol, levantando a mão direita, Mas não o saudei, dizendo-lhe adeus, Fiz sinal de gostar de o ver antes: mais nada.

Believing that each step of my life would mean contact with the horror of the New and that each new person I met was a new and living fragment of the unknown to be placed before me on the table for my daily horrified contemplation, I decided to abstain from everything, to go nowhere, to reduce action to the minimum, to avoid as far as possible meeting either men or events, to perfect abstinence and cultivate renunciation. That's how much living frightens and torments me.

O que é preciso é ser-se natural e calmo Na felicidade ou na infelicidade, Sentir como quem olha, Pensar como quem anda, E quando se vai morrer, lembrar-se de que o dia morre, E que o poente é belo e é bela a noite que fica...

Isolation has carved me in its image and likeness.

Anything and everything, depending on how one sees it, is a marvel or a hindrance, an all or a nothing, a path or a problem. To see something in constantly new ways is to renew and multiply it. That is why the contemplative person, without ever leaving his village, will nevertheless have the whole universe at his disposal. There's infinity in a cell or a desert. One can sleep cosmically against a rock.

El corazón, si pudiese pensar, se pararía.

Me detengo a orillas de mí y me asomo… Abismo… Y en ese abismo el Universo.

Io mi siedo sulla soglia e immergo il mio sguardo e il mio udito nei colori e nei suoni del paesaggio e canto piano piano, per me soltanto, dei vaghi canti che compongo nell'attesa.

A quien como yo, así, viviendo no sabe tener vida, ¿qué le queda sino, como a mis pocos pares, la renuncia por modo y la contemplación por destino?

I find the slightest action impossible, as if it were some heroic deed. The mere thought of making the smallest gesture weighs on me as if it were something I was actually considering doing.

Sappiamo bene che ogni opera è necessariamente imperfetta, e che la meno sicura delle nostre contemplazioni estetiche sarà quella di cui scriviamo. Ma tutto è imperfetto, non c'è tramonto così bello da non poterlo essere di più, o brezza lieve che invita al sonno che non possa favorire un sonno ancor più sereno.

I decided to abstain from everything, to go forward in nothing, to reduce action to a minimum, to make it hard for people and events to find me, to perfect the art of abstinence, and to take abdication to unprecedented heights.

Ni brisa, ni gente que interrumpa lo que no pienso.